Network Engineering Lead - Tier 1 Financial Market Infrastructure - J12290

Pinpoint Asia; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinpoint Asia seeks an accomplished Network Engineering Lead for Tier 1 Financial Market Infrastructure. You will co-lead the network organization, setting architecture standards and roadmaps while delivering major technology transformations across multi-tier data centers.

You will guide architecture, governance, and escalation, partnering with trading and post-trade systems teams to optimize protocol interactions and latency. Strong leadership and 15+ years in the field are essential.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in network engineering and infrastructure design.
• 5+ years leading technical teams and setting engineering policy.

Responsibilities

• Direct architecture, engineering governance and modernization roadmaps across multi-tier data centre networks.
• Take delivery accountability for major technology transformation projects.
• Partner with application teams to dissect protocol interactions and latency footprints.
• Act as escalation point for complex root-cause analyses and transit network issues.
• Drive adoption of next-generation switching fabrics and routing topologies.

Skills

Network architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Latency analysis

Tools

Cisco ACI

VXLAN

EVPN

BGP

spine-leaf

Job description

Network Engineering Lead - Tier 1 Financial Market Infrastructure - J12290

Our client is an anchor financial market infrastructure institution operating central exchange, clearing, and settlement platforms across the region. Their systems form the technological backbone of Asian capital markets, processing millions of transactions daily with zero tolerance for downtime or jitter. Engineering teams here maintain end-to-end local autonomy over architecture, investment decisions, and operational delivery.

The Role & Landscape

Working in tandem with the head of operational support, you will co-lead the network organization with direct oversight of architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and capital delivery.

Direct architecture, engineering governance, and modernization roadmaps across multi-tier data centre networks.

Take delivery accountability for major technology transformation projects

Partner directly with application teams across real-time trading engines and post-trade settlement systems to dissect protocol interactions, socket behaviour, and latency footprints.

Act as the final Level 3 technical escalation point for complex root-cause analyses, packet inspection, and transient network anomalies.

Direct the adoption of next-generation switching fabrics, including EVPN/VXLAN, ACI, advanced multicast distribution, and traffic-engineered routing topologies.

Split focus between 70% technical infrastructure strategy/engineering and 30% senior stakeholder alignment across core business divisions.

What We Are Looking For

Experience: 15+ years in network engineering and infrastructure design, including at least 5 years leading technical teams and setting engineering policy.

Data Centre Fabric: Strong hands-on architectural depth with Cisco ACI, VXLAN overlays, EVPN control planes, BGP, and spine-leaf architectures.

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