API Standards Tech Lead — Platform & AI

HSBC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity & adoption pay

Contributory pension

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Technical Lead – API to join the CTO Developer Platforms, Standards and Controls team in the UK. You’ll lead a new product that inventories APIs, checks compliance against HSBC standards, and provides compliant designs to support delivery across teams.

In this role you will shape API standards, explore AI-enabled improvements, mentor engineering squads, and drive data-driven decisions while aligning roadmaps with customers and the business in a global, distributed organization.

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in software fundamentals and architecture
• Experience applying AI to software development patterns/processes
• Proven leadership skills and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Be a proactive, collaborative and inquisitive member of the Standards and Controls leadership team
• Act as a key technical leader, overseeing delivery from inception to completion
• Shape and refine the bank’s API standards, gathering customer feedback and iterating
• Explore AI opportunities (e.g., AI review feedback integrated into standards assessments)
• Lead/facilitate product planning and prioritisation aligned to the future vision for API standards and tooling
• Align and communicate product roadmaps with customers at the centre of change
• Champion the use of data and metrics to understand and improve customer outcomes
• Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams; ensure best practices and continuous learning

Skills

API design

Leadership

AI in software

Product planning

Data analytics

Mentorship

Distributed teams

Controls

Tools

API tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

HSBC is seeking a Technical Lead – API to join the CTO Developer Platforms, Standards and Controls team in the UK. You’ll lead a new product that inventories APIs, checks compliance against HSBC standards, and provides compliant designs to support delivery across teams.

In this role you will shape API standards, explore AI-enabled improvements, mentor engineering squads, and drive data-driven decisions while aligning roadmaps with customers and the business in a global, distributed organization.