Lead Engineer - Securities Lending
Marks & Spencer Group plc16 hours ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of an assigned programme or work area, including scope, plans, dependencies, quality, and production readiness.
- Work with Trading, Operations, and Product to analyze workflows, clarify requirements, identify exceptions, and agree acceptance criteria.
- Design and implement services for trade capture, inventory and position flows, returns, recalls, re-rates, lifecycle processing, and integrations.
- Lead a platform renovation workstream involving phased migration, interface design, reconciliation, and compatibility with existing systems and controls.
- Make engineering decisions within the agreed architecture and contribute to broader architecture discussions.
- Guide engineers through implementation and code review, share domain knowledge, and coordinate work across the delivery area.
- Manage and develop staff where assigned.
- Maintain automated tests, secure coding, observability, release, and recovery practices; investigate production issues and deliver sustainable fixes.
- Communicate solution options, improvements, dependencies, and delivery risks to product, technical, business, Trading, and Operations stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience and strong hands-on server-side development in Java or Scala.
- Experience with service design, integration, relational databases, SQL, and Unix/Linux.
- A strong record of end-to-end software delivery and technical ownership of a substantial application, programme, or workstream.
- Practical experience with distributed systems, messaging, data consistency, and diagnosing complex application behavior.
- Experience working with business users on trading, financing, lifecycle, or comparable transaction-processing systems.
- Experience delivering production changes safely through automated testing, code review, release planning, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Evidence of guiding engineers and coordinating delivery with global teams; formal people-management experience is helpful but not required.
- Clear written and spoken English and the ability to communicate requirements, solution options, and delivery risks.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Securities Lending or Prime Brokerage experience, including trade capture, inventory, collateral, settlement interfaces, or lifecycle workflows, is valuable.
- Experience with platform renovation or legacy migration programmes, data reconciliation, and phased adoption is valuable.
- Experience with modern Java frameworks, event-driven services, streaming technologies, and cloud-ready engineering is valuable.
- Experience using approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly, including independent validation, testing, code review, and protection of confidential information, is valuable.
Benefits
- Supportive and inclusive working environment with employee and family benefits and perks.
- Opportunity to work closely with the Hong Kong business, deepen Securities Lending expertise, and contribute to platforms used across markets.
- Opportunities for career mobility across the business for employees who demonstrate passion and strong performance.
- Location: Hong Kong.
About Marks & Spencer Group plc
Marks & Spencer Group plc is a British retailer selling clothing, home goods, and food to consumers through stores and ecommerce, with a focus on own-brand products. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, was founded in 1884, and is headquartered in London. In the UK, its online grocery offering runs via Ocado Retail, a joint venture in which M&S holds a significant stake.