Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

Location: 

Guangzhou, GD, CN, 510620


Brand:  HSBC
Area of Interest:  Technology
Closing Date:  Hybrid Worker
Date:  28 Oct 2026

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

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, Software Engineering.

 

Business: WEALTH & PREM SOLUTIONS TECH

 

Principal responsibilities

  • Demonstrate substantial software engineering leadership experience delivering secure resilient digital platforms end-to-end
  • Show a track record building and operating high-availability high-scale high-performance systems including production support and operational resilience
  • Evidence delivery of strategic global solutions including legacy platform migrations and platform demise
  • Apply strong technical judgement across observability incident response performance engineering capacity management release engineering and dependency management
  • Demonstrate AI and automation engineering literacy including taking practical AI-enabled use cases from concept to production with appropriate risk controls
  • Embed DevOps DevSecOps SRE and Agile practices in complex global environments with exposure to scaled agile approaches such as SAFe as a plus
  • Assign tasks to team members and provide effective supervision to ensure the delivery of projects on time and in budget with high quality engineering standards
  • Manage and monitor software and team related metrices
  • Propose and speed up new technology approach including AI adoption, automation tooling, cloud computing and evolutionary deployment methodology across the engineering teams
  • Align with different internal and external stakeholders including architects, global business, local business and other software engineering to deliver end to end solutions

 

Requirements

  • Understanding deep Wealth domain knowledge across investment lifecycles and digital propositions from direct-to-consumer to advisory and discretionary offerings
  • Extensive relevant working experience, involvement in wealth management or investment IT functions preferred
  • Show a track record designing and building as well as supporting high-availability high-scale high-performance systems including production support and operational resilience
  • Solid experience on end to end solution design and development across software platforms
  • Very strong understanding in Amazon tools and infra-structure (including EC2/EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, Dynamo DB, PostgreSQL)
  • Excellent technical analytic/problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills, with the ability to effectively interact with different groups of stakeholders
  • Strong team technical leader who also has the ability to work under pressure, independently and proactively
  • Willing to travel overseas

 

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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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***