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About this Vice President – Post-Trade Systems - IT role at HKEX

HKEX · Onsite · HK-TKO 5/F

Company Introduction:

We’re home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.
Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.


HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary:

This role leads the architecture and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical post-trade systems, covering clearing, settlement and risk-related capabilities for OTC derivatives products. You will manage a team of developers, drive technical excellence, and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions across the full software development lifecycle, including production support.

Job Duties:

Job Responsibilites:

  • Lead solution architecture and system design for high-availability, high-throughput post-trade platforms and services.

  • Take full ownership and accountability for delivery across the SDLC (requirements, design, development, testing, and implementation); manage delivery across complex stakeholder groups.

  • Drive parallel delivery across multiple workstreams by planning, prioritising, and coordinating resources across internal teams and vendors where applicable.

  • Provide engineering leadership on modern backend practices (microservices, cloud/container, messaging/streaming) and enforce coding, security, and quality standards.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional technology and business teams to translate requirements into robust technical designs and implementation approaches.

  • Manage production support of mission-critical system, lead production incident and problem management (investigation, resolution, root cause analysis and prevention) and drive continuous improvement for stability and performance.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or above) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in system design and development

  • Minimum 3 years in a management and/or technical leadership capacity, with proven experience leading developers and owning delivery outcomes.

  • Strong track record delivering mission-critical systems with complex stakeholder environments; excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Strong hands-on expertise in Java engineering, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and troubleshooting production issues.

  • Strong experience with microservices architecture, containers/Kubernetes, and messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka, ActiveMQ); solid understanding of cloud-native patterns is preferred.

  • Familiar with modern DevOps/engineering toolchains (e.g., source control, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact management) and quality practices.

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.

Location:

HKEX - TKO

Shift:

Standard - 40 Hours (Hong Kong SAR)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Permanent
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About HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code:388) and one of the world’s leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metals Exchange. As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets. HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, s

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