Head of Engineering Practices

Shape how engineering gets done - at scale at HSBC

HSBC is one of the worlds largest banking and financial services organisations serving millions of customers through our global network. We connect customers to opportunities across international markets supporting individuals businesses and institutions with a broad range of banking and wealth services. At HSBC were focused on opening up a world of opportunity by helping people and businesses thrive and economies prosper.

Were looking for a senior engineering leader at Director level to raise the engineering baseline across GCIO. This role is about defining what good looks like building the enablement capability to help teams adopt it and proving progress through clear measurable maturity outcomes. Youll help teams move faster with confidence - improving quality resilience security and delivery effectiveness - while keeping governance pragmatic and automation-led.

What youll be doing

Lead engineering maturity uplift across GCIO

• Define an engineering maturity framework (capabilities levels measurable indicators) spanning SDLC DevSecOps CI/CD quality engineering reliability and operational excellence.
• Baseline current maturity identify priority gaps and agree uplift plans with engineering leaders.
• Drive adoption through coaching playbooks reference implementations and targeted interventions where teams need support.
• Establish a sustainable cadence for maturity reviews progress tracking and continuous improvement.

Build the enablement model and communities that scale

• Build and grow a small central team of engineering practice leads plus a federated network of chapter leads/champions.
• Establish and run communities of practice across disciplines (e.g. backend frontend mobile data SRE DevSecOps QA/Testing architecture).
• Create operating rhythms that drive reuse of patterns accelerate decision-making and reduce duplicated effort - ensuring inclusive participation across locations and seniority.

Strengthen technical leadership and capability

• Shepherd the Principal Engineer and Distinguished Engineer programmes (role expectations assessment approach governance cadence community health).
• Partner with HR/L&D and engineering leadership to shape training pathways from graduate to senior leadership.
• Embed mentoring coaching and knowledge-sharing to strengthen career pathways and technical leadership.

Use data to drive outcomes

• Define and track maturity KPIs and engineering health metrics (e.g. DORA change failure rate MTTR compliance-by-design).
• Use insights to prioritise investment remove systemic bottlenecks and demonstrate measurable uplift.
• Provide clear updates to senior stakeholders on progress risks and dependencies.

What were looking for

Essential

• Senior engineering leadership experience driving organisation-wide practice uplift and change.
• Strong knowledge of modern SDLC DevSecOps CI/CD quality engineering and reliability practices.
• Proven ability to build scalable enablement models - coaching communities of practice playbooks.
• Experience designing or running technical leadership/career programmes and engineering training initiatives.
• Experience operating in regulated environments with strong risk and control expectations.
• Data-driven approach to maturity assessment prioritisation and benefits realisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across platform security architecture and delivery.

Desirable

• Experience designing maturity frameworks and running enterprise-wide improvement programmes.
• Experience partnering with platform engineering on internal developer platforms - golden paths.
• Familiarity with cloud-native engineering and modern observability tooling.

Ready to raise the bar

If youre passionate about improving engineering outcomes through practical standards scalable enablement and measurable maturity uplift (and you can bring people with you) - apply now to join us in shaping how engineering gets done across GCIO.

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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