Engineering - Technology Graduate Programme (Jun 2025)

What you'll do

Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over two years, you’ll get to:

• Become a highly skilled engineer, with a key role to play in developing, maintaining, and optimizing our technological infrastructure
• Enjoy being part of a core team, delivering cutting-edge solutions for the bank, positively impacting the way we work, driving efficiencies, and boosting our effectiveness
• Help us take a digital-first approach when developing new products and services while continuing to enhance existing ones and providing software support to our teams around the world
• Design, test, and maintain the technology and systems that support our global teams in their day-to-day work, and enable the delivery of change programmes and new applications
• Work with other engineers, architects, and colleagues across the business to understand and drive the product or service’s direction
• Help create and build solutions to meet specific needs across the business, that can be seamlessly deployed around the globe and are simple to support

Who you are

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, particularly those with a passion for technology.

It takes a broad range of skills to be successful at HSBC. We're looking forward to seeing the mix of skills you’ve learned so far, and hearing about the unique perspective that you’ll bring to our teams. We’ll help you learn everything else.

To join us on this programme, you’ll need to be:

• Intellectually curious and constantly looking for new ways to hone your skills
• Eager to learn about the new technologies you can use to collect and store data and display outputs
• Clear about how and where you can contribute and take responsibility for your work and outcomes
• A natural collaborator, who’s always happy to speak up, enjoys building relationships and sharing ideas
• A strong analytical thinker, with a solid base of tech skills that you’re keen to apply to real-world situations
• Communicative and resilient, making changes in your stride and quickly adapting to new situations

What you'll learn

We’ll help you develop the technical skills most relevant to your role. We’ll also provide plenty of opportunities to advance your non-technical skills, like communication and collaboration, that will help you move your career forward successfully.

During your time on the programme, you’ll:

• Work with the latest Code Frameworks, Languages, and AI capabilities and get hands-on training to learn modern DevOps practices
• Learn how to monitor performance metrics for various production systems, identify root causes for technical issues, and recommend solutions
• Discover the importance of collaboration and how best to leverage other people’s skills while working as part of a broader team
• Continually enhance core skills such as programming, debugging, and code readability
• Develop specialist skills in areas such as front-end, development, security, testing, and operational support
• Have plenty of other opportunities to develop your skills, and people to support you along the way, ensuring that you’re well prepared for the future

Virtual work experience

Try our virtual work experience in Digital Business Services. You’ll get a feel for the type of work this business area undertakes, the activities you could be involved in, and the skills you would develop on the programme.

Ready to apply?

• For: Final year students or recent graduates
• Duration: Two years
• Areas: Engineering
• Start date: July 2025 onwards

Guangzhou - Engineering

Requirements:    

• Available to work full time for 2 years commencing July 2025
• Obtained, or expected to achieve, a 3.0/4.0 cumulative GPA or equivalent 2.1 degree from a recognized University (as appears on your official University Transcript or Degree Certificate)
• Fluent in English and Mandarin
• Legally permitted to work in mainland China

Additional information:    

We encourage you to apply early as we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this vacancy before its closing date if all roles are filled.

• Start date: July 2025 onwards

Xi'an - Engineering

Requirements:    

• Available to work full time for 2 years commencing July 2025
• Obtained, or expected to achieve, a 3.0/4.0 cumulative GPA or equivalent 2.1 degree from a recognized University (as appears on your official University Transcript or Degree Certificate)
• Fluent in English and Mandarin
• Legally permitted to work in mainland China

Additional information:    

We encourage you to apply early as we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this vacancy before its closing date if all roles are filled.

• Start date: July 2025 onwards