Associate Director, Data and Analytics Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Formulate and lead the end-to-end architectural design and delivery for the Risk & Reg value stream, ensuring scalable, future-proof, and resilient blueprints.
• Establish architectural patterns and strategy for hybrid and multi-cloud solutions running across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• Architect solutions that seamlessly integrate and transition data workloads from legacy on-premises big data platforms (Hadoop, Apache Spark) to hybrid cloud deployments.
• Formulate, document, and present high-quality architecture definitions and design proposals to the formal governance body, the Design Studio, ensuring timely approvals and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Assess risks and issues systematically, and work with engineering, platform, and delivery teams to generate and execute effective mitigation countermeasures and contingency plans.
• Collaborate with central security, networking, and cloud enablement/infra teams to ensure compliance with stringent financial controls and regulatory policies.
• Partner with Traded Risk business stakeholders, Quantitative Analysts (Quants), and Product Owners to deeply understand business motivations, risk models, challenges, and objectives.
• Provide strong mentoring and guidance to engineering teams, translating high-level architecture designs into clear, actionable technical patterns.
• Continuously driving architectural innovation and creativity, identifying unique ways to improve the delivery and cost-efficiency of the future-state architecture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, with proven technical leadership in a global enterprise environment.
• Deep Domain Knowledge: Strong domain knowledge, including business stakeholder motivations, risk engine operating models, regulatory standards, and typical data/performance challenges
• On-Prem Big Data: Extensive hands-on experience designing and optimizing large-scale on-prem data processing architectures using Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and HDFS environments.
• Multi-Cloud Expertise: Strong architecture design and implementation experience deploying secure, resilient services on GCP (primary), Alibaba Cloud, and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Governance & Design Studio: Experience taking complex technical designs successfully through formal architecture governance (e.g., Design Studio, security approvals, and risk boards).
• Leadership: Positively influence others to achieve results that support the outcomes of the programme and of the wider bank in general.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions. Leverage technology solutions more broadly available across the Group where applicable.
• Communicate Effectively: Strong communication skills to listen, write, and present complex technological solutions clearly and thoroughly to both business and technical stakeholders.
• Decision Making & Urgency: Strong capacity to assess situations, evaluate importance, urgency, and risks, and make clear, timely decisions in the best interests of the organization.
• Planning & Organizing: Proven capability to set priorities, outline work schedules, track technical milestones, and execute strategic plan evaluations.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience delivering high-throughput risk-calculation engines, reporting pipelines, or market data feeds in a CIB environment.
• Technical understanding of hybrid-cloud VPC designs, cross-cloud connectivity, IAM security controls, and containerized architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Practical experience with Agile / Scrum practices, DevOps tooling, and release governance.
• High standards of ethical behavior, ensuring all practices align with the bank's values, compliance duties, and internal risk/operational guidelines.

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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