Vice President, Network Engineering & Architecture - (System & Network Operations) - IT
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- HK-TKO 5/F
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Network engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in network infrastructure engineering, architecture, project delivery, and technical leadership, with at least 5 years in a management or leadership role.
- Strong expertise in enterprise and data centre networking technologies, including ACI, VXLAN, EVPN, SD-WAN, multicast networking, network security technologies, and low-latency network design.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, upgrading, and migrating mission-critical network infrastructure within large-scale and highly available environments.
- Demonstrated experience working with application development teams to analyse application traffic characteristics, protocol behaviour, network interactions, and end-to-end performance requirements.
- Strong understanding of network protocols, packet analysis, multicast technologies, transport-layer behaviour, traffic engineering, and latency optimization techniques within distributed and performan
- Proven ability to identify and manage technical risks, cross-domain dependencies, architecture challenges, and implementation complexities associated with large-scale technology initiatives. Strong an
Full description
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:
An experienced network infrastructure leader responsible for co-leading HKEX's network function and overseeing network engineering, architecture, technology strategy, project delivery, and engineering governance for HKEX's mission-critical network infrastructure.
Working in partnership with the Vice President responsible for Network Operations, the role will jointly contribute to the leadership, strategy, capability development, and overall performance of the network organization. While the Network Operations function focuses on service reliability, operational governance, automation, and day-to-day support, this role will provide leadership in network architecture, infrastructure transformation, project execution, performance engineering, and advanced technical support.
A key responsibility of the role is to collaborate closely with application development teams to understand application communication patterns, protocol behaviour, and latency characteristics, ensuring network designs are optimized to meet the demanding performance requirements of HKEX's trading and market systems.
Job Duties:Responsibilities
- Co-lead the network function and collaborate with the VP responsible for Network Operations to establish technology strategy, organizational priorities, and capability development plans for the network organization.
- Lead the Network Engineering team and provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, upgrade, migration, and optimization of HKEX's mission-critical network infrastructure.
- Define and maintain network architecture standards, engineering governance frameworks, technology roadmaps, and technical design principles to support future business and market requirements.
- Drive the delivery of strategic network initiatives, infrastructure transformation programmes, and technology refresh projects, ensuring successful execution within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
- Partner closely with application development teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders to understand application communication patterns, traffic flows, protocol behaviour, and latency-sensitive requirements, and ensure network solutions are optimized accordingly.
- Lead end-to-end performance engineering initiatives by analysing application, server, transport, and network interactions to identify latency bottlenecks and implement enhancements that improve system performance.