Platform Engineering Lead

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Were one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper and ultimately helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

Were currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Platform Engineering Lead.

Youll design build and deploy Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions (LLMs Large Language Models) Multi-Agent Systems Transformers) for enterprise applications including autonomous agents chatbots content generation search and intelligent automation. Youll work closely with product and engineering teams youll deliver scalable governed AI agent systems across fintech tech and data-focused platforms leveraging Python modern (ML Machine Learning) frameworks cloud services and enterprise MLOps practices.

As an HSBC employee in the UK youll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role youll:

• Own Python service design on cloud platforms (GCP AWS Azure) ensuring alignment with architecture security and compliance standards
• Build APIs and microservices using frameworks like FastAPI Flask or Django; implement (Infrastructure as Code IaC) with Terraform or CloudFormation; and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab Argo)
• Enable SRE practices by defining SLAs/SLOs ensuring resilience (autoscaling failover) disaster recovery and leading incident response and postmortems
• Optimise systems for latency throughput cost and regulatory compliance; implement runtime security measures (CVE remediation Vault/KMS)
• Produce design documents and runbooks; champion automation DevSecOps and observability (using tools like Open Telemetry Prometheus Grafana)
• Collaborate with product backend and frontend teams to deliver enterprise-grade AI features and integrate AI agent solutions into existing software/SaaS platforms with proper governance controls
• Own complete AI lifecycle: agent orchestration data pipelines training evaluation deployment monitoring and governance (MLOps)

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

• Proficiency in Python (essential) and solid software engineering practices including API design and microservices
• Experience with PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Hugging Face ecosystem and agent frameworks like AutoGen or CrewAI
• Knowledge of multi-agent systems agent orchestration A2A protocols (OpenAPI AsyncAPI) Model Context Protocol LLMs Transformers prompt engineering and RAG design
• Understanding of model risk management bias detection explainability audit trails and regulatory compliance
• Experience with AWS Azure GCP Docker Kubernetes ML flow CI/CD tools and observability platforms
• Familiarity with deep learning Natural Language Processing MLOps data engineering vector search distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Security compliance and privacy in UK/EU contexts (GDPR AI Act model governance data lineage)

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC were dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender ethnicity disability religion sexual orientation or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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