Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

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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 Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering .

In this role, you will:

• Own and operate technical governance for the sub value stream (standards, design

reviews, engineering controls, and decision records).

• Ensure solutions align to Group principles, reference architectures, and strategic

technology direction.

• Drive pragmatic engineering excellence: quality, resilience, performance,

observability, and maintainability.

• Identify and manage technical risk, including legacy constraints and technical debt,

with clear remediation plans.

• Partner with Product, Portfolio and Delivery to shape roadmaps and scope, balancing value, risk, and capacity.
•  Support delivery execution: unblock teams, manage dependencies, and ensure

engineering readiness for releases.

• Provide input to quarterly/PI planning, estimation approaches, and capacity

planning; ensure plans reflect engineering realities.

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

• Experience in Full-stack engineering experience, with knowledge and expertise in API development in HSBC - Java, Spring Boot, Maven, IntelliJ, Event Driven Systems (Kafka or similar), AWS (Kubernetes, Fargate, Redis, RDS, S3, Route 53)

o Proxy / Gateway management, Agile Methodologies – Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Pair Programming, Agile Tooling – Jira, Confluence, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Nexus, Test automation development, Application Monitoring – Splunk, AppDynamics, Native mobile development - iOS(Swift, XCode) and Android(Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Browser development (Node JS, React, Redux)

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex, regulated environments

(financial services experience is beneficial).

•  Strong technical governance capability: standards, design assurance, risk

management, and decision-making frameworks.

• Track record of aligning teams to enterprise principles and driving consistent

engineering practices across multiple squads.

• Experience coordinating across disciplines (product, architecture, security,

operations, delivery) and managing dependencies.

• Confident senior stakeholder engagement, with the ability to explain trade-offs and

influence outcomes.

• People leadership experience: mentoring, performance management, and building

training/career development pathways.

• Strong delivery mindset: able to support planning, prioritisation, and execution

without losing sight of quality and control.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC
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