Sr. Associate Director, Tech SME Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Tech SME Specialist.

Business: Group Functions Technology 

Principal responsibilities

• Lead solution design for AI/ML and emerging AI use cases across Financial Crime, especially Future AML, intelligent detection, decisioning, and operational effectiveness.
• Translate business and risk outcomes into practical technical designs, architecture decisions, delivery plans, and operating models.
• Shape future-state FinCrime solution patterns, including advanced modelling, event-driven and streaming architectures, real-time or near real-time processing, and agentic capabilities where appropriate.
• Lead and coordinate engineers and delivery partners, setting clear ways of working, maintaining engineering standards, allocating work, and removing blockers.
• Work closely with business, product, architecture, analytics, operations, and IT stakeholders to deliver scalable, data-driven cloud solutions.
• Partner with central architecture, security, engineering, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure alignment to enterprise standards and target platforms.
• Ensure MLOps capabilities are embedded into the solution, including model deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, performance tracking, retraining approaches, governance, and controlled release.
• Ensure solutions are production-ready, with appropriate controls, resilience, support models, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Ensure delivery is executed to a high standard and aligned with IT governance, risk, security, and control requirements.
• Apply strong product thinking to shape use cases into scalable, practical, and user-centric solutions with clear business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; advanced degree preferred.
• Strong experience in solution design, delivery leadership, and productionization of AI/ML use cases in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience in MLOps, including ML lifecycle management, deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, retraining approaches, release controls, and governance.
• Experience with AIOps is an advantage.
• Good understanding of modern AI/ML patterns, including LLM-based applications, RAG, GraphRAG, and agentic frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud and/or Azure.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and release management for AI/ML and data products.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with data platforms and databases including SQL, NoSQL, and dbt or similar transformation tooling.
• Experience with security controls including IAM, Active Directory, service accounts, access roles, and entitlements.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming technologies such as Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent.
• Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with engineers, review designs, challenge decisions, and use AI-assisted development approaches where appropriate.
• Strong product and solution design capability, with the ability to shape requirements into scalable, usable, and valuable outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving ability and the ability to work independently under pressure.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments, including Scrum and/or Kanban.

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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