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

The Opportunity

We’re seeking a Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering to set AI-enabled engineering direction across platform and product. This role focuses on practical patterns and tooling - including agent-based approaches - that improve how teams build, test, release and operate software. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, architecture, operations and Risk, InfoSec and compliance to embed AI responsibly in production with the right controls and operational readiness. A key part of the remit is delivering AI-enabled improvements across Product Control and Valuation control workflows such as IPV, price testing and breaks and exceptions. You’ll also strengthen developer experience through better tooling, automation and self-service. Success means scalable patterns that teams adopt easily with measurable improvements in quality, productivity, reliability and risk outcomes.

What you'll be doing

• Set AI-enabled engineering patterns and agent-based tooling approaches that improve SDLC outcomes across teams
• Embed AI capabilities into production services with appropriate controls, operational readiness and explainability where relevant
• Strengthen developer experience through developer tooling, CI/CD optimisation, test automation, observability standards and self-service enablement
• Standardise evaluation of AI proof of concepts then run pilots with clear measures across quality, productivity, reliability and risk
• Industrialise successful pilots into reusable components, templates, accelerators and golden path implementations for squads to adopt
• Govern architecture and technical design through reviews and trade-offs across resilience, performance, maintainability, security, cost and pace
• Embed secure-by-default delivery by automating IT controls and evidence capture in engineering patterns and CI/CD pipelines
• Advance AI-enabled delivery in Product Control and Valuation controls including audit-ready evidence capture, lineage, approval trails and repeatable checks
• Establish data quality and reconciliation patterns to validate valuation inputs, detect anomalies and automate reconciliations to reduce manual effort

What we're looking for

• Bring substantial hands-on software engineering experience within complex enterprise or financial-services environments
• Demonstrate experience operating as a senior technical individual contributor such as Senior Technical Lead, Principal Engineer or Lead Developer
• Build reference implementations and reusable engineering assets that squads can adopt with minimal friction
• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals across design patterns, data structures, algorithms and system architecture
• Implement AI-enabled software engineering approaches at scale including agent-based and AI tooling across build, test, release and run
• Establish end-to-end evaluation approaches from proof of concept to production with measurement frameworks and operational readiness
• Design and deliver cloud-native architectures on platforms such as GCP or AWS with scalable modular patterns
• Automate IT control compliance within products and CI/CD pipelines and operate effectively in audit-ready environments
• Partner effectively across engineering, product, architecture, operations and Risk, InfoSec and compliance with clear written and verbal communication

Building audit-ready AI engineering

If you want to shape how AI is applied to real production engineering problems - with the controls and evidence needed in a regulated environment - this role offers the scope to make that impact. You’ll set direction that improves developer experience and delivery outcomes across teams not just within a single squad. You’ll also help modernise valuation control workflows through automation, stronger data quality patterns and measurable operational improvements. Apply to join HSBC and help turn AI experimentation into repeatable, trusted engineering practices at scale.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India