Avaloq Engineering Lead

HSBC Service Delivery; Kraków; On-site; PLN 301,000 - 346,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Family friendly leaves

Pension and life assurance

Home office set-up reimbursement

Cafeteria platform

Employee assistance program

Flexible working hours

Free parking

CSR initiatives

Nursery discounts

Training and education sponsorship

Job summary

HSBC Service Delivery in Kraków is seeking an experienced Senior Lead to oversee Avaloq deliveries, ensuring end-to-end development life cycle from design to deployment. You will align with stakeholders, enforce quality standards, and drive automation within a strong private banking context.

The role requires hands-on Avaloq expertise, agile and DevOps mindset, and leadership to guide the team through complex decisions while maintaining high delivery velocity.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise across Avaloq and Agile delivery.
• Strong knowledge of the Private Banking domain and related functions.
• Hands-on engineering mindset with Avaloq platform details and deployment automation.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with PL/SQL, Unix or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead Avaloq deliveries end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Ensure code quality, documentation and compliance with standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver Projects, Enhancements and backlog via Agile/DevOps.
• Mentor teams, manage risks, and drive automation strategy.

Skills

Avaloq

Agile delivery

DevOps practices

Team leadership

English communication

Tools

PL/SQL

Unix

Control-M

Job description

What you’ll do

• Lead Avaloq deliveries for stream and oversee end to end Avaloq development life cycle including Design, development, testing and deployment.
• Ensure code quality, documentation and compliance with development standards, best practices and quality guidelines.
• Work with stakeholders and other technology functions to ensure that end-to-end delivery of Projects, Minor Enhancements, RTB backlog are addressed using Agile and DevOps methodology.
• Support in Recruitment, Talent Management, Retention, Risk Control, Governance and local administration.
• Partner with Head of Engineering Banking Platform to ensure that there a robust location strategy for Avaloq workforce & build the capability according to the strategy.
• Be responsible for identifying risks and threats and deficiencies with deployed key controls.
• Ensures that risk, control and governance are adhered to by the team, mandatory trainings are conducted and attended by team members.
• Help drive the automation strategy with Test manager.
• Ensure that the team matures in Agile practices and collects necessary metrics to demonstrate the high level of release frequency, high quality standards and low production incidents trends.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Deep expertise across Avaloq, Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and team leadership to drive outcomes at pace.
• Strong understanding of the Private Banking domain and the functions you’ll support (e.g., finance, trade, client reporting, cash management, risk).
• A hands-on engineering mindset: able to get into the detail of the Avaloq platform (implementation, interfaces, EOD, deployment automation) and contribute to high-level architecture and system design to ensure satellite interfaces are built optimally.
• Solid capability in scripting languages such as PL/SQL.
• Working knowledge of Unix and Control-M.
• A system engineering background with the ability to assess options and recommend the best solution against business requirements.
• Demonstrated delivery experience: shipping sustainable change that measurably improves business effectiveness, aligned to an approved book of work.
• Clear, confident communication (written and verbal) in English, with a track record of influencing across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to build strong internal and external networks, enabling collaboration and creating opportunities for others to succeed.
• Proven ability to guide stakeholders through complex technical decisions, even with ambiguity—considering long-term risk and escalating to senior architects when appropriate.

What we offer

The pay range for this role is 27 000 PLN – 31 000 PLN (monthly, gross).

Additional car allowance in the amount of 4786 PLN (monthly, gross).

Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN)
• Cafeteria platform
• Employee assistance program
• Additional contributions to PPK scheme
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• Flexible working hours
• Free parking

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve.

At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces.

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.

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