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

Principal responsibilities

Product ownership & roadmap

• Own a rolling 12–18 month roadmap; run monthly planning and publish progress regularly.
• Maintain a prioritised backlog.
• Own vendor evaluation, upgrades, and licensing/cost forecasts.

Engineering leadership

• Lead a 5–10 person engineering team (delivery, coaching, hiring input, standards).
• Set standards for architecture, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation.

Architecture & in-house development

• Design and evolve DV architecture across cloud / on-prem / hybrid sources.
• Build and maintain production-grade extensions/integrations (e.g., connectors, APIs, automation, policy integrations).
• leading performance optimisation: pushdown, caching/materialisation, workload management, capacity tuning.

Production service ownership

• Accountable for availability, performance, capacity, and DR readiness for the DV service.
• Lead/participate in incident & problem management; produce RCAs for Sev1/Sev2 and drive fixes to closure.

Security, governance & capability planning

• Implement/maintain row/column controls, masking, audit logging, TLS, secrets integration.
• Maintain an IT capability plan: skills, operating model, tooling, vendor dependencies, and funded gap closure.

Requirements

• 8+ years in data platforms / distributed systems / software or data engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on with data virtualisation / federated query / distributed SQL.
• Production experience with at least one: Starburst, Trino, Denodo (enterprise-grade).
• 2+ years owning a technical product backlog/roadmap and 2+ years leading/mentoring engineers.
• Strong SQL, plus hands-on development in Java or Python.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, and observability (metrics/logs/traces).
• Comfortable communicating trade-offs to both engineers and senior stakeholders.

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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