Vice President - Application Integration - IT

Company Introduction:

We're home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.
Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.

HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary:
HKEX Application Integration is a dedicated cross-functional team providing application development and product support to all HKEX business functions, with a particular focus on digital productivity tools and innovative SaaS solutions.

Since its foundation, we delivered a Robotic Process Automation programme acclaimed as one of the best in Asia; the successful introduction of Salesforce, Qualtrics, DocuSign, and Microsoft Power Platform; as well as several bespoke AI-driven capital markets knowledge management solutions developed in collaboration with Hong Kong Fintech start-ups.

Our development leads sit alongside business-facing analysts, technically proficient developers and solution support staff, providing a unique and dynamic structure for various skill sets to flourish and take on new responsibilities aligned with their interests.
We collaborate in a customer-driven environment where quality, design and user-experience across our digital assets is symbolic of who we are as a business. HKEX is known for trust, innovation, and progress - while being transparent and easy to connect with. Our tools and assets must reflect this and act as an extension of our iconic and purpose-led brand identity.

Job Duties:

As Vice President , you will provide strong technical leadership and delivery management to the team across Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Your goal is to enhance delivery quality, foster a culture of excellence, and ensure our technology solutions meet the strategic needs of the business. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and have a proven track record of delivering impactful business solutions collaboratively.

Responsibilities- Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing, cross-border team. Guide technical leads to effectively manage their respective development and testing teams.

• Effectively collaborate with product managers, business and IT teams to understand requirements, design, develop or select cost effective solutions that are fit for purpose, meet enterprise architecture standards and are aligned with broader corporate strategies.
• Serve as the senior technical authority within the team. Design robust solution architectures, conduct code reviews, and establish stringent, high-quality coding standards.
• Drive improvements in our development and deployment practices. Implement and enforce rigorous testing methodologies to reduce escaped defects and conduct deep root-cause analysis for production issues to ensure platform stability.
• Take ownership of the team's budget and manage the annual budget, validating project estimates, and managing resource allocation and forecasting.

• Manage external service providers and product vendors to deliver products and services in accordance with agreed contracts. Develop healthy partnership with key suppliers to drive innovation, skills uplift and increased vendor performance.

  Requirements:- University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of working experience in designing, building and supporting scalable, distributed and highly resilient software solutions, with at least 3-5 years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
• Strong knowledge and practice experience with applying modern enterprise architecture, CI/CD and Agile software development practices in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Proven, hands-on expertise in designing and developing solutions on the Salesforce platform and low-code development platforms is required.
• Cloud architecture certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Google Professional Cloud Architect would be a plus.
• Experience in managing a geographically diverse development and support team.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional business and technical teams to deliver compelling user experiences while balancing design details with business impact and technical implementation considerations.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with proven ability to communicate with impact, drive consensus, influence relationships and articulate complex information in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences including senior management.

• Have an excellent command of both written and spoken English and Cantonese. Ability to communicate in Putonghua would be an advantage.

  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.

  Location:
  HKEX - TKO

  Shift:
  N/A

  Scheduled Weekly Hours:
  40

  Worker Type:
  Permanent