2023 HKEX Graduate Programme - Technology Associate

HKEX Graduate Programme - Developing tomorrow’s talent!

The HKEX Graduate Programme provides bright ambitious graduates with an unrivalled foundation for a rewarding and challenging career in global markets. Our Graduates - Associates and Technology Associates - are fully immersed in a tailored 24-month development programme, combining interactive learning, financial skills training and senior management exposure, with stimulating on-the-job experience. Associates are offered the opportunity to work with industry leaders - both inside and outside the business - giving them unique insight and experiences, an outstanding network and the tools and opportunity to grow and succeed in a purpose-led organisation. If this sounds good to you, then we would love to hear from you!

As one of our Technology Graduate Associates, not only you will become the market architects of tomorrow, we’ll help you to lay the foundations for a rewarding and challenging career in the capital markets. With over 300 professionals, the HKEX Technology team is responsible for keeping Asia’s most dynamic and vibrant capital market running safely and securely. Across infrastructure, system development, security management, design architecture and hosting services – the team work together to facilitate market efficiency and operations. The team embraces new technologies across, and beyond, its value chain to deliver a better market experience and more cost-effective outcomes; and we are exploring potential strategic partnerships to venture into new horizons in Fintech and data markets. Join us on our 24 month Graduate Programme where you will have the opportunity to make a real impact and work on some of our most exciting projects, and, there will be lots of learning and personal development to setup for your success. We are looking for young talents, those who are committed, embrace change, think beyond the status quo new technologies and are hungry to learn.

Job Duties:

As one of our Technology Associates, you will:

• Gain insight into Hong Kong financial market infrastructure, operations & products
• Develop and support enterprise systems to operate a fair and orderly market
• Collaborate with internal business stakeholders and external technology partners to provide optimal business and technological solutions
• Support the project initiation and implementation life-cycle
• Participate in shaping and enhancing the technology landscape of HKEX
• Gain exposure and keep abreast of new technology development and best-practices in the IT industry
• Develop an understanding of our products and services, business operations, and regulatory and compliance framework
• Rotate across various IT functions to support HKEX business and operations
• Partner with senior management, staff at all levels, and professionals in the industry

To join us, you must be:

• Fresh graduate in 2023, or recent graduate in the last two years with less than 2 years of work experience following graduation
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree or above, majoring in IT, Computer Science or related disciplines
• Have solid experience on at least one programming language
• Be on track for, or achieved, minimum 2:1 degree (UK), or 3.5 GPA (Hong Kong or US) or equivalent
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and interest in global financial markets
• Possess strong sense of ownership, excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
• Open-minded to embrace new challenges, able to learn and adapt quickly
• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and work well as a team

Applications for 2023 HKEX Graduate Programme is now open and will close on Jun 16, 2023. Successful hires will start working in August 2023.

If you have any queries regarding the Graduate Programme, please email us at [email protected]

Company Introduction:

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is one of the world’s major exchange groups, and operates a range of equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets. HKEX is the world’s leading IPO market and as Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange and sole operator of its clearing houses, it is uniquely placed to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets.

As the global markets leader in the Asian time-zone, we offer a world of opportunities for early careers and experienced hires. Here, we know that diverse thinking fosters better solutions, and we are committed to building an open and dynamic environment which allows our business to innovate and our people to thrive.

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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.