Engineering Lead - Remote

In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in Canada. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position.

Ready to shape the infrastructure behind low-latency electronic trading platforms?

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Join Markets and Securities Services Information Technology (IT) as Regional Head of electronic Trading (eTrading) Infrastructure Engineering in Toronto, Canada. This role owns the regional infrastructure engineering capability supporting latency-sensitive and collocated electronic trading platforms. You’ll manage two infrastructure engineers while staying hands-on across data center compute, Linux, server hardware, network switching, and exchange connectivity. You’ll take end-to-end accountability for the regional infrastructure delivery pipeline aligned to agreed business priorities, alongside operational service performance and the regional risk and control agenda. Success means resilient, secure, and cost-effective services, strong control outcomes, and well-governed delivery across collocated data centers and exchange-facing infrastructure.

Oversee and develop two infrastructure engineers, setting objectives, allocating work, and building succession and capability plans
Own the regional delivery pipeline and roadmap, translating business priorities into committed plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes while managing dependencies and trade-offs
Manage the regional infrastructure budget, forecasts, and investment cases, controlling capital and operating expenditure and supplier and hardware lifecycle decisions
Govern service availability, capacity, resilience, and support readiness, coordinating incident, problem, change, and recovery through to permanent remediation
Own the regional risk and control environment, including technology risk assessment, audit and regulatory actions, security and firmware compliance, evidence quality, and timely issue closure
Design, build, configure, and troubleshoot infrastructure across collocated and enterprise data centers including Linux platforms, physical servers, network switches, cabling, out-of-band management, and low-latency connectivity
Define and maintain regional reference architectures, engineering standards, design blueprints, build patterns, and operational procedures aligned with global strategy
Build repeatable infrastructure delivery and validation pipelines using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated testing, contributing production-quality Java and Ansible code
Partner with trading business, application engineering, architecture, cyber security, operations, risk, finance, procurement, vendors, exchanges and carriers to deliver regional outcomes.
Lead data-centre builds, migrations, refreshes and exchange onboarding, coordinating suppliers and remote-hands teams and providing hands-on support during critical implementations and incidents.
Bring substantial hands-on experience in infrastructure, network, or compute engineering with accountability for regional or business-critical services
Manage a small engineering team, establishing priorities, assuring delivery, and developing technical capability
Own budgets, forecasts, vendors, operational performance, and technology risk and control obligations
Apply deep expertise across Linux, enterprise server hardware, data center and colocation environments, network switches, and physical infrastructure lifecycle management
Use strong knowledge of low-latency networking including Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), routing and switching, multicast, packet capture analysis, and exchange or market data connectivity
Build continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows and automated, version-controlled infrastructure delivery aligned to a Network Development and Operations (NetDevOps) approach
Apply Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to infrastructure and network engineering using repeatable lab and pre-production validation
Write production code in Java, or bring equivalent demonstrable production coding experience in Python or a comparable language
Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Ansible including reusable roles and playbooks, automated testing, and integration into delivery pipelines
Experience supporting electronic trading, market-data or other latency-sensitive financial services infrastructure.
Professional network certification such as CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Data Center, or equivalent depth of experience.
We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including a robust Wellness Hub, all in a welcoming and inclusive work environment. You will be empowered to drive HSBC’s engagement with the communities we serve through an industry-leading volunteerism policy, a generous matching gift program, and a comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives. You’ll want to join our Employee Resource Groups as they play a central part in life at HSBC, including the development of our employees and networking inside and outside of HSBC. And we want you to help us build the bank of the future!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.