Financial Engineer

If you're looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a role that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Finance is integral to HSBC's purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Our global team of finance professionals partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward-looking analysis, accuracy, efficiency, and control to frame and influence business decisions.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Financial Engineer.

Analytics, Digital & Architecture (ADA), Global Finance is a global team and Centre of Excellence in Finance responsible for shaping the future of financial analytics and engineering, driving innovation, and delivering unparalleled insights that empower strategic decision-making within Global Finance.

In this role, you will:

• The ADA team supports Global Finance by developing sophisticated, high-quality models, analytics capabilities, and innovative analytics, providing seamless development through to deployment pipelines, and implementing best practices in Model Governance and ongoing monitoring. The team is also driving the business architecture and helping IT with the technical architecture.
• With an impressive, varied book of work across ADA you will support the primary objective to navigate this initiative.
• You will collaborate closely with our modelling teams to understand in detail our models, support modelling in delivering these models within our software engineering best practice standards, ensure our models are efficient and scalable, implement best practice continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure we have stable production deployments, support the testing and BAU support as required throughout model deliveries.
• If you enjoy software engineering with no barriers to develop, the team and culture will genuinely assist you with driving your continuing professional development within this subject matter.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in designing, developing, and deploying software applications (e.g. analytics libraries).
• Thorough understanding of software engineering principles.
• Experience with Python or Java or C++ is essential.
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins).
• Experience with large data processing technologies (e.g. Polars).
• Collaborative, engaging, credible and methodical; being able to bring the coding and narrative to life (e.g., being able to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders with technical solutions).
• Experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders (all levels of seniority, businesses, and geographies).

The base location for this role will be London and with a hybrid working pattern.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we're dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

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