Senior Mainframe DevEx Lead & Tooling Engineer

Hsbc Global Services Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an experienced Technical Services Manager to lead modernising the mainframe DevEx and SDLC across UK, USA and Mexico. You will drive GitHub-centred tooling, set standards, and deliver production-grade APIs while guiding a team of 5-8 engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to deliver a consistent developer experience, ensuring security, observability, and scalable templates across regions while enabling AI-assisted engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on mainframe engineering (z/OS SDLC) with delivery background in a controlled enterprise environment.
• Traditional mainframe SCM expertise with Endevor/Changeman-class and promotion models.
• Experience moving teams to GitHub-based engineering (branching models, PR governance).
• Experience delivering APIs for engineering consumption with clean contracts, security, logging/monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead features from design to release, including coding and code reviews.
• Establish standards for maintainability, security, reliability, observability.
• Escalation point for complex build/deploy/tooling issues across UK/US/Mexico.
• Define and deliver a measurable DevEx roadmap to accelerate onboarding and productivity.
• Build and maintain standard templates and practices across regions.

Skills

Mainframe engineering

z/OS SDLC

GitHub-based DevEx

Endevor

Changeman

API development

Team leadership

Security & observability

Cross-region collaboration

Tools

Endevor

Changeman

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

HSBC is seeking an experienced Technical Services Manager to lead modernising the mainframe DevEx and SDLC across UK, USA and Mexico. You will drive GitHub-centred tooling, set standards, and deliver production-grade APIs while guiding a team of 5-8 engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to deliver a consistent developer experience, ensuring security, observability, and scalable templates across regions while enabling AI-assisted engineering practices.