Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics

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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 Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

Business:CTO Data Technology

Job ID: 43703

Principal responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical delivery from discovery and design through build, testing, release, and production support.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to convert requirements into practical and scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture decisions, solution design, implementation planning, and engineering standards.
• Oversee the design and development of services and applications using Python and Java in enterprise environments.
• Define and govern integration patterns, API strategy, security controls, observability, resilience, and performance requirements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, risk controls, and software engineering best practices.
• Drive delivery planning, dependency management, environment strategy, release readiness, and support models.
• Review solution designs and code to ensure maintainability, extensibility, and operational stability.
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality controls, and container/cloud deployment patterns where applicable.
• Identify and manage technical risks, trade-offs, and issues with clear documentation and stakeholder communication.
  Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate across teams to align target architecture, delivery sequencing, and reuse of common capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong experience in software engineering and technical delivery leadership in complex enterprise environments.
• Solid development experience in Python and Java.
• Proven track record in solution and application architecture, including distributed systems and service-oriented design.
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient, and secure applications in production.
• Strong background in API and microservice design, system integration, and event-driven or service-based architectures.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, release management, and production support practices.
• Practical experience with non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, recoverability, monitoring, and security.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across delivery execution, governance, and strategic change.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with pragmatic decision-making in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications：

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with engineering metrics, delivery governance frameworks, and operational excellence practices.

Success Measures (First 12 Months)：

• Delivery of priority initiatives on schedule with agreed quality outcomes.
• Reduction in production incidents and improved service reliability metrics.
• Improved release predictability, test automation coverage, and deployment efficiency.
• Clear architecture decision records and stronger cross-team technical alignment

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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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