Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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

Business:CTO Infrastructure

Req ID:58802

Principal responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap for IBM Z and IBM i platforms.
• Govern the end-to-end platform lifecycle, from design and implementation through operation, maintenance, and modernization.
• Architect highly available and resilient solutions using Parallel Sysplex, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex, PowerHA, and Db2 Mirror.
• Establish disaster recovery strategies and lead root-cause analysis for major incidents to prevent recurrence.
• Implement OpenTelemetry standards and enable end-to-end observability across mainframe, middleware, and distributed cloud services.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and Policy as Code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and z/OS Management Facility.
• Strengthen platform security through pervasive encryption, crypto-agility, least-privilege access, and quantum-safe cryptography.
• Lead the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid-cloud technologies to improve engineering efficiency and workload optimization.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in IBM Z engineering (for example z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex, Workload management, systems performance and capacity analysis).
• Proven capability designing and governing high availability and disaster recovery solutions for critical workloads.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, context propagation, and enterprise observability.
• Hands-on expertise with core middleware and data technologies, including CICS, DB2, MQ, and z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.
• Practical experience with automation and continuous integration and delivery tools, including Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, and Jenkins.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise security, encryption, access controls, regulatory compliance, and technology risk management.
• Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills in global, multidisciplinary environments.

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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