Vice President, Post-trade Systems - IT (OCP S2) (Java)

Location: HKEX - TKO, Hong Kong; onsite standard 40-hour workweek

Company

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited operates capital-market infrastructure connecting capital, ideas, and innovation across global markets.

What you will do

• Lead solution architecture and system design for high-availability, high-throughput post-trade platforms covering clearing, settlement, and risk capabilities for cash equities.
• Own delivery across requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Manage developers and coordinate multiple workstreams, internal teams, complex stakeholders, and vendors where applicable.
• Drive modern backend engineering practices using microservices, containers, cloud-native patterns, and messaging or streaming technologies.
• Translate business and technology requirements into secure, resilient, and scalable technical designs.
• Lead incident and problem management, including investigation, resolution, root cause analysis, prevention, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant hands-on system design and development experience, including experience driving greenfield implementations in financial services highly desirable.
• At least 3 years in a management or technical leadership capacity, with experience leading developers and owning delivery outcomes.
• Track record delivering mission-critical systems in complex stakeholder environments, with strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong hands-on Java expertise, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture, containers or Kubernetes, and messaging or streaming such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, or IBM MQ; cloud-native patterns preferred.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps and engineering toolchains, including source control, CI/CD, unit and integration testing, static analysis, artifact management, and quality practices.
• Exceptional attention to detail, problem-solving, analytical, presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and stakeholders in large organizations and to unify, lead, motivate, and inspire teams with diverse skill sets.

Nice to have

• Experience driving greenfield project implementations in financial services.
• Understanding of cloud-native patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position with a standard 40-hour workweek in Hong Kong SAR.
• Work on mission-critical systems supporting Hong Kong’s financial infrastructure.
• Equal-opportunity workplace focused on diversity, respect, and support for different perspectives, abilities, cultures, and experiences.