Senior Java Lead Engineer/Sr. Associate Director, Technology Management

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of a Sr. Associate Director, Technology Management

Within HSBC’s Corporate and Institutional banking department, Collateral Technology provide the technology to enable the margining function across thousands of HSBC clients globally every day.  We handle several business problems/challenges & Regulatory requirements around the use & management of collateral from Front to Back Office by the Asset Classes, Traded Risk, Credit Risk, Finance & Operations (Collateral Ops & Settlement).

We are part way through a multi-year plan to build a brand-new Collateral platform which will eventually replace the current platform.  The new collateral platform comprises micro services leveraging the latest open-source infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team in its early stages and make a key contribution in migration journey

We are embarking into the journey of Architecture transformation and Automation with strong focus on Innovation and building new capabilities and solutions with internal cloud infrastructure.

We encourage our people to dive in, roll up their sleeves and take on the many opportunities bound to come their way. We provide freedom to innovate, code and develop innovative product and solutions. We offer ample opportunities as well as training and development programs that empower you to expand your skills and abilities.

We are investing heavily across our technology and engineering domains and to accelerate achieving our vision we are seeking an experienced full stack Sr. Associate Director, Technology Management  to join the Collateral Technology team within CIB. This is a global role based in Pune, India.

The Sr. Associate Director, Technology Management  should be providing design guidance, technology recommendations, and best practices, along with hands-on support to ensure successful adoption. The role will require to have close collaboration with technical architects and team leads in both India and Poland, to ensure robust technical leadership and seamless end-to-end project execution.

In this role, you will:

• Be hands-on engineer for large part of the role and working in the capacity of an Individual contributor by coding and testing new features, enhancements and fixes to existing application. Provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of engineers in delivering application design, build and upgrades to Collateral Technology architecture. Design scalable, resilient, maintainable systems (microservices, event-driven, monolith-to-microservice migrations)
• Ship high‑quality code: set coding standards, lead code reviews, and champion testing and CI/CD.
• Establish a technology environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.
• Take accountability and ownership of design and solutions
• Promote and ensure engineering best practices and standards are met in building simpler, faster, and secure components
• Drive automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevSecOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement and adopting upcoming IT controls. Identify risks and opportunities, both for IT and business to drive availability, performance, and resiliency of services
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, framework and technologies in areas like cyber security, AI / ML and Data engineering
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices with the Pods and across Markets Control IT

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 15 to 20 years of hands-on relevant experience in developing and implementing software solutions using Java, Microservices, API and 3rd party product integrations. Experience in cloud native software development would be an added advantage.Someone who is currently working in a hands-on capacity, translating user requirements into functional code, managing the full development life cycle (SDLC) from design to production.
• Experience in working in an Agile, DevSecOps environment. Proven ability to improve developer productivity – through automation, reusability and advanced technical skills. Is hands-on with usage of AI coding assistants
• Experience of designing applications, alongside architects and platform stakeholders. Excellent command of IT risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, credentials management, and related controls
• Strong knowledge and experience in back-end technologies: Microservice architecture, Java 17/21/25, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Integration and Rest APIs
• Experience with the database technologies such Oracle, PostgreSQL or HBase.
• Should be strong with development engineering concepts including infrastructure, networking, database management systems, caching, monitoring, observability, Load balancer, site reliability engineering, etc. Experiences with Test driven development methodologies such as Junit & BDD using Selenium and Robot framework.
• Should possess a deep understanding of design patterns and principles, as well as a comprehensive expertise in microservice design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in any monitoring and observability technologies like Prometheus, Influx DB, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, etc.Good to have experience in MQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark and Object Store. Experience with Kubernetes, Helm Chart, GCP services like cloud storage, cloud buckets.Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies and business domain.The ability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India