21 hours ago
Guangzhou, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical strategy and provide architecture oversight for HSBC’s next-generation AI platform.
- Strengthen the resilience, scalability, performance, security, and operability of core AI platform services, including AI Gateway, security guardrails, model hosting, and foundation services.
- Define target architecture and engineering standards for LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway, Agent Gateway, and Guardrails as a Service.
- Establish engineering best practices and drive production readiness across platform delivery teams.
- Improve delivery efficiency, software quality, and engineering decision-making through AI-native development practices.
- Identify and adopt advances in AI and cloud-native engineering.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders across regions and coach teams to raise engineering standards.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a Principal Engineer or senior technical authority in a large-scale enterprise technology environment.
- Extensive experience designing, building, or operating shared platforms used by multiple product and application teams.
- Strong experience with gateway platforms, service control planes, API mediation layers, service meshes, or comparable enterprise integration platforms.
- Experience designing platforms supporting high availability, high concurrency, low latency, traffic management, rate limiting, routing, authentication, and policy enforcement.
- Practical understanding of AI security controls, including access control, data protection, auditability, governance, runtime guardrails, and monitoring.
- Strong knowledge of production-readiness requirements covering resilience, observability, security, performance, scalability, operability, and recoverability.
- Working knowledge of Golang and/or Python for platform tooling, service integration, experimentation, or production development.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native production systems, including deployment, networking, scaling, service discovery, resilience, and incident troubleshooting.
- Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, canary deployment, progressive delivery, A/B testing, and automated rollback.
- Familiarity with LLM gateways, MCP-based integrations, agent platforms, or comparable emerging AI infrastructure is desirable.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative leadership style with a commitment to knowledge sharing, coaching, and raising engineering standards across a global team.
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About HSBC
HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.