Vice President – Post-Trade Systems, IT

HKEX Foundation 香港交易所慈善基金

Vice President leading architecture and delivery of post-trade systems at HKEX, managing teams and ensuring system stability for critical functions.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeHong Kong • 🇭🇰 Hong KongLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 3 years in a management and/or technical leadership capacity, with proven experience leading developers and owning delivery outcomes.
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 microservices architecture, containers/Kubernetes, and messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka, ActiveMQ); solid understanding of cloud-native patterns is preferred.
Familiar with modern DevOps/engineering toolchains (e.g., source control, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact management) and quality practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaAPI designconcurrencyperformance tuningtroubleshootingmicroservices architecturecontainersKubernetesmessagingstreaming

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementaccountabilityplanningprioritizingcollaborationproblem managementcontinuous improvementdelivery ownership