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Hong Kong Exchanges

Manages global securities and derivatives markets

Vice President System Development Manager - Data Platform

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeShenzhen, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience in data/platform engineering or backend infrastructure.
  • Strong Kubernetes skills, including Helm chart authoring, role-based access control (RBAC), network policies, persistent volumes and claims (PV/PVC), and operators.
  • Solid Kafka skills, including topic design, consumer group management, offset management, lag monitoring, Kafka Connect, and schema registry (Apicurio or Confluent).
  • Solid Spark skills, including the DataFrame/Dataset API, Spark SQL, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
  • Working knowledge of Flink or Spark Structured Streaming for real-time pipelines.
  • Practical Iceberg experience, including table maintenance, time travel, and catalog integration.
  • Hands-on Trino or Presto experience, including connector configuration, query tuning, and resource group management.
  • Experience with an OLAP engine such as StarRocks, ClickHouse, or Doris, including table design, ingestion pipelines, and query optimization.
  • Proficiency in Python and either Scala or Java.
  • Solid CI/CD and GitOps skills, including ArgoCD or Flux, Helm, and Docker.
  • Experience with Airflow or Dagster for pipeline orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate critical data-platform subsystems; own major streaming, batch, storage, or serving components from design through production and continuously improve reliability and performance.
  • Operate Kafka clusters, including broker tuning, partition rebalancing, monitoring, and disaster recovery; manage schema registry and Kafka Connect connectors.
  • Build and optimize Spark batch jobs and Flink or Spark Structured Streaming pipelines; contribute reusable job frameworks and tuning guides.
  • Manage Iceberg tables, including compaction, snapshot expiration, orphan-file cleanup, and schema evolution; operate MinIO at scale, including lifecycle rules, tiering, and performance tuning.
  • Deploy and operate Trino clusters, including connector configuration, resource groups, and query monitoring; manage StarRocks or ClickHouse clusters, including sharding, replication, and materialized views.
  • Build and maintain Airflow or Dagster DAGs for platform operations; extend custom operators and sensors.
  • Implement platform-wide monitoring with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki; build dashboards and alerting rules.
  • Write Helm charts; manage Kubernetes operator lifecycles; configure resource quotas, node affinity, and pod disruption budgets.
  • Own ArgoCD application sets, Helm-based deployments, and promotion pipelines from development to production.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and write post-mortems and runbooks.
  • Mentor mid-level engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews.

Desired Qualifications

  • OpenShift-specific experience with SCC, Routes, ImageStreams, and BuildConfigs.
  • dbt project experience for data transformation and modeling.
  • Experience with data quality frameworks such as Great Expectations, Soda, or Deequ.
  • Experience with Kafka Streams or ksqlDB for stream processing.
  • Exposure to DataHub or Atlas for data discovery and lineage.

About the Company

Hong Kong Exchanges

Manages global securities and derivatives markets

HKEX Group operates a global exchange group with trading and clearing venues for securities and derivatives across equities, commodities, fixed income, and currency. Headquartered in Hong Kong with a base in London, it provides market infrastructure and services that enable listings, trading, clearing, and settlement, connecting buyers and sellers in Asia and Europe. Its markets are uniquely positioned at the crossroads of Chinese and international capital flows, helping to link China with the world as China’s capital markets open further. The company aims to shape the global market landscape by facilitating this transition and expanding access to cross-border investment and trading.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Central and Western District, Hong Kong
Founded
2000

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