Vice President – Post-Trade Systems – IT

Location: CN-Shenzhen-HyQ

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Location:

CN-Shenzhen-HyQ

Shift:

Standard - 40 Hours (China)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Permanent

Job Summary:

This role leads the architectural design and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical post-trade systems, covering clearing, settlement and collateral management of financial instruments. 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 Responsibilities:

• 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 5 years in a management and/or technical leadership capacity, with proven experience leading developers and owning delivery outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with an analytical mindset and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• 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 microservice architecture, containers/Kubernetes, messaging/streaming (e.g. Kafka, ActiveMQ), Linux and database; solid understanding of cloud-native patterns is preferred.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps/engineering toolchains (e.g., source control, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact management) and quality practices.
• Prior experience in vendor management and application security (e.g. OAuth2, API security, etc.) would be an advantage.

Company Introduction:

ITD SZ

港交所科技（深圳）有限公司，是2016年12月28日于深圳市前海自贸区成立的外商独资企业。

作为港交所的技术子公司，港交所科技（深圳）有限公司主要是为集团及其附属公司提供计算机软件、计算机硬件、信息系统、云存储、云计算、物联网和计算机网络的开发、技术服务、技术咨询、技术转让；经济信息咨询、企业管理咨询、商务信息咨询、商业信息咨询、信息系统设计、集成、运行维护；数据库管理、大数据分析；以承接服务外包方式提供系统应用管理和维护、信息技术支持管理、数据处理等信息技术和业务流程外包服务。