Associate Director, Software Engineering

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

Business:IWPB Technology 

Principal responsibilities

• Own the technical direction, architecture and engineering roadmap for the financial-planning platform in partnership with Product, Business and Architecture teams.
• Lead by example through hands-on design, development, code review, debugging and resolution of complex production issues.
• Design and deliver scalable, secure and resilient microservices and AI capabilities, including APIs, event-driven integration, AI agents, tool use, retrieval and orchestration.
• Apply AI and agentic workflows across requirements, development, testing, documentation and release processes to improve delivery speed, quality, automation and cost efficiency.
• Establish engineering and AI-development standards covering automated testing, CI/CD, evaluation, guardrails, observability, security and responsible use of AI.
• Own delivery from requirements clarification to production, managing priorities, dependencies, technical debt, risks and stakeholder expectations.
• Coach engineers, build a strong engineering culture and create reusable patterns and guidelines that help other teams adopt emerging technologies effectively.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on expertise in either Java or Python, with substantial experience designing and delivering production-grade software. Java expertise should include modern Java and Spring Boot; Python expertise should include building enterprise applications or AI solutions.
• Proven technical leadership experience, including setting technical direction, leading complex delivery and developing engineers in a global team environment.
• Practical experience with generative AI or agentic systems, such as LLM integration, RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails. Experience with LangChain or a comparable framework is preferred.
• Experience applying AI-enabled development practices to achieve measurable improvements in engineering productivity, quality or automation.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to translate business requirements into incremental production outcomes and clearly communicate technical options, risks and trade-offs to business and technology stakeholders.
• A growth mindset and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies, turn experiments into production capabilities and balance innovation with security, resilience and regulatory controls.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

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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