Technical Lead - API

In this role you will lead technical delivery for a new API-focused product within HSBC’s CTO Developer Platforms. You’ll shape API standards, ensure compliance, and provide end-to-end, customer-centered outcomes. You’ll explore AI opportunities and mentor delivery teams to elevate engineering practices. This is a chance to influence how APIs are designed and governed across a global organisation with a focus on scalable, secure platforms.

• tailored professional development opportunities
• private healthcare for UK-based employees
• enhanced maternity and adoption pay
• return-to-work support
• contributory pension with generous employer contribution
• competitive pay and benefits package

• Act as a key technical leader overseeing delivery from inception to completion
• Shape and refine the bank’s API standards, gathering customer feedback and iterating
• Lead product planning and prioritisation aligned to the API standards and tooling vision
• Align and communicate product roadmaps with customers at the centre of change
• Explore AI opportunities and integrate AI review feedback into standards assessments
• Champion the use of data and metrics to understand and improve customer outcomes
• Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams; promote best practices and continuous learning
• Be a proactive, collaborative and inquisitive member of the Standards and Controls leadership team

• Extensive hands-on software development across multiple languages/frameworks
• Strong grounding in software fundamentals (design patterns, data structures, algorithms, architecture)
• Experience applying AI to software development patterns/processes at scale
• Proven leadership skills (guiding teams, creating a productive environment)
• Product/project management capability (planning, resourcing, delivery)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges
• Experience working in a control environment or with Technology controls
• Experience working in a global organisation with distributed teams and strong collaboration skills

• collaboration
• leadership
• mentoring
• multilingual software development across multiple languages/frameworks
• design patterns, data structures, algorithms, architecture
• AI in software development patterns/processes