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in the role ofSr. Associate Director, Software Engineering.\nBusiness:CIB Technology\nJob ID：62635\nPrincipal responsibilities\nTechnology leadership for the Client Distribution pillar\nLead the end-to-end technology agenda for the Client Distribution pillar within DSG.\nTranslate business and product strategy into a clear technology roadmap and execution plan.\nPartner with the Business Lead and Product Owner Lead to define priorities, sequencing, and delivery outcomes.\nEnsure technology decisions support the pillar strategy, client experience goals, and long-term platform scalability.\nPosition AI Markets effectively as the digital distribution front door for DSG, ensuring the underlying technology supports a seamless, scalable, and differentiated client experience.\nRepresent the pillar in DSG-wide technology planning, governance, and prioritisation forums.\nAI-enabled platform and digital capability leadership\nProvide technology leadership for AI-enabled client distribution capabilities, including intelligent workflows, digital content delivery, data-driven services, and agentic or assisted user experiences where relevant.\nEnsure AI capabilities are implemented in a way that is scalable, supportable, explainable where needed, and aligned with business value.\nPartner with product, engineering, and control stakeholders to embed AI responsibly into client-facing workflows and services.\nBring sufficient understanding of AI/LLM-enabled platforms, orchestration patterns, and operational considerations to guide design decisions and delivery trade-offs.\nEnsure AI-enabled solutions are integrated into the broader digital platform architecture rather than developed as isolated point solutions.\nDelivery and execution\nOwn technology delivery across the Client Distribution portfolio, ensuring execution against committed outcomes, timelines, and quality standards.\nDrive coordinated delivery across engineering teams, platform teams, architecture, control functions, and dependent pillars.\nEnsure delivery is pragmatic, transparent, and aligned to business value.\nManage delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across a complex stakeholder landscape.\nPromote disciplined execution, clear accountability, and strong delivery governance.\nPlatform, architecture, and engineering direction\nShape the target technology architecture for Client Distribution in alignment with DSG and enterprise direction.\nEnsure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and reusable where appropriate.\nDrive engineering quality, technical consistency, and sound lifecycle management across the pillar.\nPartner with horizontal pillars and shared platform teams to leverage common capabilities and avoid fragmented solutions.\nSupport modernisation of client-facing platforms, APIs, workflow services, and digital channel capabilities.\nEnsure AI and digital distribution capabilities are built on strong platform foundations with appropriate observability, supportability, and lifecycle controls.\nProduction stability and operational readiness\nBe accountable for the operational health and production readiness of technology services within the pillar.\nEnsure appropriate support models, monitoring, controls, resilience, and incident management disciplines are in place.\nDrive continuous improvement in platform stability, service quality, and operational maturity.\nEnsure new capabilities are production-ready and supported by appropriate runbooks, controls, and service ownership.\nOversee remediation of production issues and structural improvements to reduce recurring incidents.\nGovernance, risk, and control\nEnsure the pillar operates within appropriate technology governance, risk, and control frameworks.\nBring a strong control mindset to all aspects of delivery and platform management, particularly for client-facing and AI-enabled capabilities.\nEnsure solutions are designed and operated with appropriate controls around data usage, access, model governance, resilience, auditability, and change management.\nPartner closely with control, risk, cybersecurity, architecture, and governance teams to ensure solutions are well-managed and sustainable at scale.\nSupport effective management of audit, security, resilience, and regulatory expectations relevant to the platform estate.\nDrive disciplined change management, release governance, and lifecycle controls across the pillar.\nStakeholder management and organisational leadership\nBuild strong partnerships across business, product, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and control teams.\nProvide clear leadership communication on strategy, delivery progress, risks, and decisions.\nAlign stakeholders across competing priorities while maintaining focus on pillar outcomes.\nContribute to DSG leadership discussions on technology direction, operating model, and execution priorities.\nAct as a senior technology leader for the pillar, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high standards.\nPeople and team leadership\nLead and develop technology teams aligned to the Client Distribution pillar.\nSet clear expectations on engineering quality, ownership, delivery discipline, and collaboration.\nBuild a strong leadership culture focused on execution, resilience, continuous improvement, and control awareness.\nSupport organisation design, capability build-out, and talent development as the pillar evolves.\nScope of the pillar\nThe Client Distribution pillar supports digital client channels and services across institutional and corporate client workflows, including:\nSophisticated pre-trade workflows\nPricing and execution\nPost-trade and chat-enabled workflows\nChannels including web, mobile, chat, and API-based distribution\nContent and services including platform-based data feeds, risk services, AI Markets Premium, and data / AI-enabled / agentic workflows and services\nAI Markets is a core part of this pillar as the distribution front door for DSG, providing a unified digital entry point for client and user interaction with DSG capabilities.\nKnowledge & Experience / Qualifications\nExperience\nSignificant experience in senior technology leadership roles within digital platforms, electronic channels, or client-facing enterprise technology.\nProven track record leading complex technology delivery across multiple teams and stakeholders.\nExperience owning large-scale platforms or product-aligned technology domains with both build and run accountability.\nStrong experience in managing technology strategy, architecture direction, and execution in a controlled enterprise environment.\nExperience working closely with business and product leadership in a high-demand delivery setting.\nExperience with AI-enabled products, intelligent workflow platforms, or data-driven digital capabilities in an enterprise setting is strongly preferred.\nSkills and capabilities\nStrong strategic thinking combined with practical delivery focus.\nAbility to lead across architecture, engineering, delivery, production support, and control dimensions.\nGood understanding of AI/LLM-enabled solutions and the practical considerations for deploying them in production environments.\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing capability across senior business and technology audiences.\nStrong judgment in balancing pace, innovation, control, resilience, and long-term sustainability.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technology topics for varied audiences.\nStrong leadership presence, with the ability to align teams around clear outcomes and standards.\nStrong risk and control awareness, particularly in relation to client-facing platforms, data usage, and AI-enabled services.\nTechnical / domain familiarity\nGood understanding of digital channels, APIs, workflow platforms, and client-facing technology ecosystems.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabled application patterns, orchestration layers, model integration considerations, and operational support requirements.\nFamiliarity with modern engineering practices, platform design, resilience, observability, and service operations.\nUnderstanding of enterprise governance, security, risk, and control expectations.\nExperience working in environments requiring strong coordination across shared services and platform dependencies.\nPreferred qualities\nStrong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability.\nAble to operate effectively across strategy, execution, and operational detail.\nCollaborative, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented.\nComfortable leading through complexity, ambiguity, and organisational change.\nFocused on building scalable and sustainable technology foundations, not just short-term delivery.\nBrings balanced judgment on innovation, AI adoption, and control requirements.\nSuccess measures\nClear and credible technology roadmap for the Client Distribution pillar.\nStrong delivery performance against strategic priorities and business outcomes.\nEffective positioning of AI Markets as a scalable and trusted distribution front door for DSG.\nImproved platform scalability, resilience, and operational maturity.\nStrong governance, risk management, and control discipline across the pillar.\nResponsible and effective adoption of AI-enabled capabilities within client distribution services.\nA high-performing technology organisation with clear accountability and execution focus.\n/51/LP/WX\nAbout HSBC Technology China\nWe develop, implement and support software and IT services and processes that allow HSBC to remain at the forefront of high-quality banking systems.\nYou’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. \nHSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. 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