Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 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 Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering.
Business: Group Functions Technology L3
Principal responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders across business, architects, leadership team, service line heads to deliver sharable engineering artifacts.
- Work with Tech PO and Tech lead to shape the scope and convert it to tangible items
- Collaborate with central teams (architecture, security, engineering, networks) who are responsible for delivering HSBC baseline cloud architecture
- Collaborate with service lines to co-design and set up common standards and practice, to avoid duplicated technical artifacts.
- Ensure DevSecOps capabilities are built in as part of the solution
- Ensure solution aligns with FSA.
- Engineering SME to support teams across X-risk type SVS
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; advanced degree is preferred
- GCP or AWS certified (GCP preferred)
- Solid knowledge and 10+ years hands-on experiences in below techniques / practices:
- Experience of migration to GCP and integration projects on large scale environment
- Experience working with Kubernetes, Dockers, Storage, Cloud Functions
- Experience to perform data analysis, on Databases (SQL, no-SQL, DBT)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Java, springboot & spring cloud, Zuul gateway, workflow(flowable, BPM)
- Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiar with Micro-service and API first development
- Security (IAM, AD, ADLDS, roles, service accounts, entitlements)
- Experience on Micro-service E2E Design/Deployment
- Hands on experience on service mesh
- Familiar with service observability
- Hands on experience on caching implementation
- Hands on experience on Redis
- DevSecOps principles & automation (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub)
- Events & Data Streaming: Data Proc, Pub-Sub, Confluent/Kafka
- Familiar with TCP/IP network design including addressing, routing, switches, firewalls, and routers
- Agile development practices & tools (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
- Strong problem-solving skills and capability of working independently and under pressure
- Ability to communicate explain complex ideas in both oral and written English
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience in Banking and Financial Services with good understanding of the legal and compliance business
- Good communication (verbal & written) skillset to explain complex ideas.
- Ability to work as a tech lead of an agile program (familiarity with agile methodology).
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- Keen to learn and keen to mentor
- Experience in delivering complex solutions at large organizations of varying size and complexity
- Experience working in a global environment
- Highly motivated, outcome driven and results oriented with the ability to prioritize and drive measurable value
- Innovative
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
HSBC 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. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.
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