Principal Engineer

HSBC Holdings plc; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead Gen AI initiatives within the Group Functions Tech AI team in India. You will deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions, guide architecture, and drive technology direction across large engineering groups.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, deep technical expertise, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to business leaders to gain buy-in and accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Gen AI solutions at enterprise scale.
• Ability to lead and influence stakeholders across large engineering teams.
• Hands-on engineering leadership with impact across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of large-scale IT solutions in AI.
• Influence business and senior management on technology direction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with HSBC Technology's strategy.
• Drive governance and best practices for AI initiatives.

Skills

Gen AI

Engineering Leadership

Enterprise-scale Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 58 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Principal Engineer

The Opportunity

This role will act as a Principal Engineer in the Group Functions Tech AI team and is expected to be experienced in delivering Gen AI solutions at an enterprise scale and familiar with the latest AI developments, such as agentic AI, MCP, RAG and knowledge management.

This position will play an instrumental role in driving technical delivery for large-scale products or pieces of infrastructure with influence across a large teams of engineers.

Their primary responsibility is to add value for significant areas of the technology organisation by using their significant expertise and combination of skills to influence and lead key stakeholders in the delivery of IT solutions that adhere to HSBC Technology's strategic vision.
This person will typically be someone who provides positive, hands‑on engineering leadership with impact to a large part of the organisation, they have a deep awareness of technology, what is happening in the tech community, thinking critically about it and applying that to delivering change.

What you will do:

Governance and Committee Memberships

• Possible membership of Technical Design Authority

Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders

• "Someone who can create something which makes the bank better, faster, safer"
• Leads other people to use or change their behaviors; this includes "transferring their expertise"
• Influences way beyond their own immediate department
• Someone who can explain technology well to business people or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction
• Someone who influences beyond HSBC in the industry (be that tech or banking)
• Someone who can identify risk and opportunities for the business

Leadership & Teamwork

• Takes accountability & personal risk - i.e. not deferring to an Architect or "the process"
• Someone who can communicate with code
• Values team success over individual success
• Continuously improves themselves and their team
• Communicate ideas succinctly. Ability to communicate technical big picture vision, strategy and direction

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Functional Knowledge

• Researches new tech / processes and is the driving force to adopt them
• Someone who can think few steps forward of technology and guide the team or department to a new direction
• Someone who isn't just a specialist in one domain (e.g. just networks); we prefer generalists, who can apply their thinking to many problems
• Demonstrates mastery of their technical discipline

Others

• Can see a problem or an opportunity and then engineers a solution
• Someone who is respected for what they built not (just) what they say
• Thinks about the business impact of their work
• Holistic view to problem solving

You’ll achieve more when you joinHSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (India) Limited***