Senior Production Engineer, Fixed Income e-Trading

About the role

This is a hands-on role responsible for production management and business-facing technical support for HSBC’s in-house Fixed Income eTrading platforms, within the eRisk Operations function. The role supports primarily New York trading day, working closely with Trading, Sales, Quant teams, and Middle Office/Operations to maintain platform stability, performance, and availability.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end electronic execution workflows, including algo trading, streaming and RFQ, ensuring incidents are managed effectively and that changes are introduced in a controlled, low-risk manner.
• Operate within a regional and global follow-the-sun support model, delivering services under a DevOps-aligned IT service delivery approach.
• Partner with Quants and engineering teams on pricing/curve-related/algo issues, releases, and production fixes; ensure appropriate testing and production readiness.
• Manage change and release activities, ensuring controlled deployments, rollback readiness, and effective handovers across regions.
• Drive problem management: root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and delivery of permanent fixes, automation, and monitoring improvements.
• Partner with Middle Office/Operations to resolve trade lifecycle exceptions (allocations, confirmations, settlement breaks) where technology is a contributing factor.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, operational procedures, monitoring and alerting; reduce manual intervention and improve resilience.
• Provide coaching and guidance to junior team members and contribute to a strong operational culture across the global support model.

Requirements

You´ll likely have the following skills to succeed in this role:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, ideally in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Finance or similar)
• Proven experience in production support / SRE / DevOps for electronic trading or other low-latency, high-availability platforms
• Understanding of Fixed Income products and eTrading workflows across Rates and Credit, including RFQ, streaming/pricing, and algorithmic execution
• Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems: Linux/UNIX, networking (TCP/IP), messaging, databases, and performance bottlenecks
• Hands-on scripting/programming for diagnostics and automation (e.g., Python, Shell; plus at least one of Java/C++)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (e.g., ITRS Geneos) and a focus on operational automation
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with front office business users, traders, sales, quants, as well as other internal technical teams or vendors, and produce clear written updates for different audiences
• Understanding of production management disciplines (incident/problem/change; ITIL concepts)
• Proven ownership mindset, able to work under pressure and independently, while collaborating effectively across global teams
• Front-office application support experience within a tier-1 investment bank or hedge fund
• Working knowledge of FIX protocol
• Experience with kdb+/q and/or SQL for investigation and analysis
• Familiarity with low-latency messaging (e.g., MQ, 29West, SBE, PICO REDLINE)
• Experience with observability/data platforms such as Grafana/InfluxDB, Elastic, MongoDB
• Understanding capacity management, co-location (COLO) environments, and Production/DR operating models
• Experience managing third-party suppliers