Engineering & Delivery Lead - Risk & Compliance in London

hackajob is partnering directly with HSBC to hire for this role. Ready to build resilient risk controls and regulatory management platforms at scale?

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world's most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Role

Based in London, this role sits within Group Functions Technology in Risk and Compliance Technology and reports to the Risk Stewardship Enabler Value Stream Technology Lead. You'll be accountable for the engineering capability behind Risk Controls Assessment (RCA) and Regulation Management, shaping how we design, build, deploy and run secure, resilient and scalable services in a highly regulated environment. Working closely with Risk stakeholders and Value Stream-aligned DevSecOps teams you'll translate business and regulatory priorities into clear product outcomes with ownership across architecture, backlog, build, release and production. A key measure of success is stable, observable services with strong technology controls that meet HSBC standards and regulatory expectations. You'll also help modernise engineering practices across the portfolio to improve time-to-market, operational efficiency and risk outcomes. This is a hands-on role with scope to contribute production code and set reference implementations that raise the bar across teams.

What you'll be doing

• Own delivery of the RCA and Regulation Management book of work, achieving agreed milestones within planned schedules.
• Oversee engineering across the full lifecycle from discovery and architecture through build, test, deployment, production support and continuous improvement.
• Build secure, resilient and scalable capabilities with clear ownership across architecture, backlog, release and run.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including Agile delivery, DevSecOps, trunk-based development, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Embed approved AI-enabled engineering practices across design, development, testing, security, documentation and operations with governance and traceability.
• Strengthen production stability and service resiliency by improving observability, operability, technical debt management and controlled release practices.
• Establish a strong technology control environment aligned to HSBC standards and regulatory expectations and address gaps in coupling, ownership and design.
• Partner with stakeholders across Global Risk, Compliance, Procurement, regional technology and key vendors to align priorities and outcomes.

What we're looking for

• Bring proven experience designing, building and running secure services in a highly regulated environment with strong security and control frameworks.
• Demonstrate deep hands-on engineering capability in Java or Python including building high-performance services and working with concurrency and distributed patterns.
• Apply substantial experience with event-driven and distributed systems including low-latency architectures and synchronous and asynchronous execution models.
• Use strong knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, cloud, service mesh, event streaming and production observability to improve resilience and operability.
• Show experience automating delivery and operations including CI/CD, deployment automation, performance testing, rollback and controlled production releases.
• Apply practical expertise across architecture, APIs, data flows, deployment pipelines and code quality including managing technical debt.
• Embed Agile product delivery practices with outcome-led backlogs, effective sprint routines and frequent business feedback.
• Influence senior stakeholders by explaining technology clearly and shaping decisions across teams and functions.

If you want your engineering work to improve how risk controls and regulatory outcomes are delivered across a global bank this role gives you the scope to make that impact. You'll set technical direction across a portfolio where stability, resilience and strong controls matter every day. You'll work with a broad stakeholder network across Risk, Compliance and Technology to turn priorities into services that stand up in production. Apply to help shape platforms that make HSBC better, faster and safer.

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, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk.