VP, Post-Trade Systems & Platform Architecture

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX); Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the architecture and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical post-trade systems for cash equities, derivatives, and collateral management in Hong Kong.

You will own the SDLC from requirements through production, guiding a team of developers and collaborating with cross-functional groups to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in system design and development, with financial services exposure.
• Minimum 3 years in management or technical leadership, delivering outcomes through teams.
• Strong Java engineering skills, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with microservices architecture, containers/Kubernetes, and messaging/streaming (Kafka/ActiveMQ/IBM MQ).
• Familiarity with cloud-native patterns, DevOps toolchains and quality practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and end-to-end delivery for post-trade platforms (clearing, settlement, risk).
• Manage a team of developers; drive technical excellence and secure, resilient solutions across the SDLC.

Skills

Java engineering

Microservices

Cloud/Kubernetes

DevOps practices

API design

Performance tuning

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Engineering

Tools

Kafka/Message queues

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the architecture and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical post-trade systems for cash equities, derivatives, and collateral management in Hong Kong.

You will own the SDLC from requirements through production, guiding a team of developers and collaborating with cross-functional groups to deliver secure, scalable solutions.