Global Head of Cyber Protection Platform Engineering
HSBC London, England, United Kingdom
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
You will set the technical direction and oversee the delivery of enterprise-wide cyber protection platforms across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments. This involves managing a global engineering team while partnering with stakeholders to ensure platform resilience, automation, and alignment with security governance.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires extensive leadership experience in managing enterprise-scale security platforms and globally distributed engineering teams. Candidates must demonstrate deep expertise in cybersecurity domains, complex transformation programs, and the ability to influence technical strategy at an executive level.
Full description
Ready to shape enterprise cyber protection platforms across cloud endpoints and identity?
Why HSBC
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations 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.
The Role
As Global Head of Cyber Protection Platform Engineering, you’ll set technical direction and oversee delivery for a portfolio of shared enterprise security platforms that protect HSBC globally. The role spans platform strategy, architecture, roadmap, engineering, operations and resilience across cloud, containers, endpoints, identity, attack surface and AI-enablement. You’ll work across Cybersecurity, Technology partners, Enterprise Architecture and senior stakeholders to align technical vision and prioritise outcomes. Success means scalable services that empower control and capability owners, clear service levels with transparent performance and platform capabilities embedded consistently across HSBC. You’ll also influence third-party engineering backlogs and ensure contractual commitments translate into measurable value. This is a senior global remit in a regulated environment where customer experience and cyber outcomes are closely linked.
What you'll be doing
- Set platform strategy and technical direction for enterprise cyber protection platforms and services
- Oversee roadmap delivery, benefit realisation and architecture across a shared platform portfolio
- Establish engineering standards, governance, service management, data integration and automation practices
- Embed platform capabilities across HSBC in partnership with technology teams and delivery partners
- Define transparent service levels and create visibility of platform performance and reliability
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Principal Engineers, Enterprise Architecture and control owners to align design decisions and prioritise backlogs
- Influence third-party platform engineering backlogs and hold suppliers to contractual commitments
- Manage a global team of engineers and SMEs across platform design, build and run
What we're looking for
- Demonstrate leadership of enterprise-scale security platforms and globally distributed engineering teams
- Bring deep expertise across cybersecurity and engineering to evaluate architecture and capability decisions at executive level
- Show delivery of complex transformation and technical programmes across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments
- Build and develop engineering teams operating in regulated global environments
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and influence across multiple levels
- Apply established experience across multiple cyber security domains including cloud and AppSec/SDLC/DevSecOps
- Deliver measurable improvements through process re-design, automation and modern engineering practices
- Bring hands-on leadership experience with CNAPP or EDR/XDR platforms where possible
Building HSBC’s cyber protection platforms
This role sits at the centre of how HSBC defends against threats at scale across a fast-changing technology landscape. You’ll shape platform choices, engineering practices and operational resilience that support teams across regions and businesses. If you want to set direction for shared security platforms and see your work embedded across the bank this is a chance to make that impact. Apply to help strengthen the services that protect customers, colleagues and the business worldwide.
Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background 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.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.
