VP, Post-Trade Systems Architecture & Delivery

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEX) is seeking a Vice President, Post-trade Systems - IT to lead architecture and end-to-end delivery for mission-critical post-trade platforms, including clearing, settlement and risk capabilities. You will drive engineering excellence across the full software lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a high-stakes financial infrastructure environment.

The role requires 10+ years in system design, 3+ years in leadership, and deep hands-on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in system design and development.
• Minimum 3 years in management/technical leadership with delivery ownership.
• Strong track record delivering mission-critical systems with complex stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java engineering, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Experience with microservices architecture, containers/Kubernetes, and messaging/streaming (Kafka, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ).
• Familiar with cloud-native patterns and modern DevOps toolchains and quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and end-to-end delivery for post-trade platforms (clearing, settlement and risk).
• Manage a team of developers and deliver secure, resilient, scalable solutions across the full SDLC.
• Drive multi-workstream delivery by planning, prioritising and coordinating resources with internal teams and vendors.
• Provide engineering leadership on back-end practices and enforce coding, security and quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust designs and implementations.
• Oversee production support, incident management and root-cause analysis for continuous improvement.

Skills

Java engineering

API design

Concurrency

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting production issues

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Microservices

Containers/Kubernetes

Kafka

ActiveMQ

IBM MQ

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEX) is seeking a Vice President, Post-trade Systems - IT to lead architecture and end-to-end delivery for mission-critical post-trade platforms, including clearing, settlement and risk capabilities. You will drive engineering excellence across the full software lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a high-stakes financial infrastructure environment.

The role requires 10+ years in system design, 3+ years in leadership, and deep hands-on