SVS Tech Lead

HSBC; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an experienced Sub Value Stream Tech Lead to join the Group Functions Technology team in India. The role focuses on building a real-time decisioning and model orchestration platform for financial crime prevention, with emphasis on Java and Python, event-driven architectures, and containerized, cloud-native engineering.

You will collaborate with risk, cybersecurity, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, auditable decisions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering experience delivering production-grade code and reference implementations.
• Deep mastery of Java or Python with high-performance services and distributed workflows.
• Experience designing low-latency distributed systems including API/event contracts and resilience patterns.
• Cloud-native engineering experience with streaming platforms like Kafka and containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Comfort working in a highly regulated environment with strong security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and build HSBC’s real-time decisioning and model-orchestration platform for financial crime prevention.
• Translate policy and customer outcomes into deterministic, auditable technical decisions.
• Architect a resilient runtime with calibrated outputs and traceable decisions.
• Engineer low-latency, highly available distributed systems with time budgets and safe degradation.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote cross-team technical standards.
• Automate delivery and operations including CI/CD, versioning, and production releases.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Low-latency design

Cloud-native engineering

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

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 Sub Value Stream Tech Lead.

The Opportunity

Group Functions Technology is a Global Function encompassing platforms that are vital to the bank’s operation. Our mission is to “ Enable, Protect and Delight ” HSBC’s global businesses.

Within Group Functions Technology, Risk and Compliance Technology is building a real-time decisioning capability that can evaluate transaction events, coordinate multiple detection techniques and select the right preventative action within strict sub-second latency budgets. Sitting above HSBC's real-time data feeds, the platform will orchestrate rules, machine-learning models, graph capabilities, foundation models and approved bounded agent functions across real-time, near-real-time and asynchronous execution tiers.

What You’ll Do

• Define and build HSBC’s real-time decisioning and model-orchestration platform for financial crime prevention
• Translate financial-crime policy and customer-outcome requirements into deterministic, explainable and auditable technical decisions
• Architect a resilient runtime that selects execution capabilities, sequences and parallelism and calibrates outputs into a traceable decision
• Engineer low-latency, highly available distributed systems with explicit time budgets, fallbacks, circuit breakers and safe degradation
• Own the technical direction across model execution orchestration and decision strategy while keeping them as clearly separated platform capabilities
• Emphasize Java and Python, event-driven architecture, Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms, containers, Kubernetes and cloud-native engineering.
• Champion AI-enabled engineering and an agentic SDLC by embedding approved AI coding assistants and autonomous engineering agents with human oversight, traceability and governance
• Partner with CIOs, business leaders, architects, model owners, risk management, cybersecurity and engineering teams across Risk and Compliance to deliver safely at scale
• Mentor engineer teams and share knowledge through production code, design reviews, reference implementations and cross-team technical standards.
• Automate delivery and operation from the outset, including CI/CD, policy and model versioning, performance testing, failure injection, decision replay, rollback and controlled production releases.

What you will need to succeed in the role

• As a Senior Technologist you should have hands-on engineering experience delivering critical production code and reference implementations
• Demonstrate deep mastery of Java or Python including high-performance services, concurrency and distributed workflow or orchestration engines
• Proven experience in designing low-latency distributed systems including API and event contracts, schema evolution, idempotency, back-pressure, load shedding, timeouts, retries and graceful degradation
• Experience in cloud native engineering, Kakfa or equivalent streaming platforms, containers, Kubernetes
• Experienced and comfortable operating in a highly regulated environment and the security and control framework this necessitates.
• Ability to communicate technology ideas clearly to business / senior leaders
• Ability to build trusted relationship & collaborate well beyond their immediate team (including model risk owners, architecture / platform / security / engineering teams, cross ‑ organization and at times external stakeholders / industry)

You’ll achieve more at HSBC.

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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