Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. HSBC scores A on the Alion truth index.
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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.
Business:Group Functions Technology
Principal responsibilities
- Provide technical consultation to development team members with guidance of department principles. Lead teams or projects of high complexity. Initiates and conducts feasibility studies of new and modified business requirement.
- Provide technical analysis and solutions to business issues, provides consultation, researches and implements technical alternatives, and maintains awareness of business technology strategies.
- Be responsible in user requirement gathering, detailed requirement documentation by working closely with the project stakeholders including IT and business users. Ensure the business need can be translated into executable artefacts for development team.
- Work closely with stakeholders, architects, and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
- Work with development team to clarify the user requirements, conduct system testing, prepare test plan and test cases.
- Work with business users on the UAT execution, defects follow-up with application development team
- Designing, coding, and debugging modenlized applications
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to analyse business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Developing and maintaining scalable and secure cloud-based solutions utilizing either opensourced technologies or cloud native service
Requirements
- University Degree (or above) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English is a must.
- Demonstrable 7-10 years of commercial experience on developing software, application, or solution for large-scale system with ideally either Java/Spring or Python. Both skill sets are highly desirable.
- Good experience in Cloud native technologies, include but not limited for those popular ones on GCP, AWS, Alicloud. Experience on GCP is desirable but not essential.
- Good understanding and knowledge on the micro service design pattern, proven experience of using coding level design patterns to solve business problem.
- Good hands-on experience in multiple languages and technologies in the team, include but not limited, Python Flask/Django/Tornado, Java, Spring cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache Beam, Spark/Flink and more.
- Deep understand on DevSecOps and capable of developing CI/CD from scratch and applying it into daily development
- Experience of SOLID coding principle and proven experience of applying clean code principle into daily development work.
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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited Xian Branch***