Senior Creative Technologist - Wealth and Personal Banking

Job description

Job description

Some careers shine brighter than others

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) helps deliver on HSBC’s purpose of opening up a world of opportunity by providing our customers with borderless banking and world-class wealth management through best-in-class, mobile-first capabilities and exceptional people. Our international network and breadth of expertise enable us to support individuals, families, business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. Wealth and Personal Banking has four key business areas responsible for efficiently bringing the best of HSBC to our clients through a broad and relevant suite of wealth and retail banking capabilities: Asset Management, Global Private Banking & Wealth, HSBC Life, Retail Banking & Strategy and COO & Digital Transformation.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Creative Technologist.

Principal Responsibilities

Role purpose:

Join the Global Design Team within International Wealth and Premier Banking (IWPB) at HSBC, where we create best-in-class experiences that make a difference in customers' lives. We align business strategy with user needs across channels and touchpoints to shape the future experience for affluent customers across the globe.  As a Senior Creative Technologist, you will help bridge the gap between design and engineering, to develop tooling and plugins, contribute to our GenUI (Figma-to-code) workflow, and evolve the technical underpinnings of our design system. 

In this role you will:

·  Support the adoption, evolution, and technical implementation of our design system in Figma and beyond
·  Develop and maintain custom Figma plugins and tools to support design workflows and DevOps, including GenUI – our platform for Figma-to-code generation and automation
·  Contribute to documentation, best practices and training materials for global design and development team
·  Identify opportunities for automation, innovation, and performance improvements within the design system ecosystem, explore and pilot AI-driven design tools and efficiency methods
·  Partner with design and development teams to ensure seamless integration of components and tokens.
·  Maintain and extend the technical architecture of the Hive design system, to ensure system scalability, performance, and maintainability across platforms and brands.
·  Provide technical mentorship to other team members and support design adoption
·  Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, leading to stronger collaboration within the project

Requirements

To be successful you will need

·  Strong front-end engineering skills, ideally with experience in design system infrastructure
·  Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Figma plugin Application Programming Interface (APIs)
·  Deep understanding of component-based frameworks (e.g. React) and design token frameworks
·  Skilled in design-to-code workflows and tools (eg. Figma, Application Programming Interface (APIs), Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), codegen) 
·  Experience in native mobile app development (iOS/Android) is a plus 
·  Strong problem-solving, autonomy and leadership in driving initiatives from concept to rollout 
·  Excellent communication skills and comfort working across cross-functional team 
·  Ability to translate design specs into reusable technical components and systems

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