Associate Director, Management Specialist

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

Principal responsibilities:

• Design, review and deliver the end-to-end technical architecture for HSBC and Hang Seng mortgage system rebuild, guaranteeing stable deployment and reliable operation of Java/Spring Boot & PostgreSQL workloads on AWS.
• Lead the engineering team, conduct rigorous technical design reviews and code reviews, enforce unified engineering standards and promote agile delivery.
• Establish technical specifications for Java development, Spring Boot framework usage, PostgreSQL database design, as well as IaC standards, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows for AWS environments.
• Optimize system high availability, scalability, performance, resilience and cost following AWS best practices; tune Spring Boot applications and PostgreSQL databases for production workloads.
• Analyze mortgage business rules and translate complex requirements into stable, maintainable Java-based technical implementations.
• Identify, assess and mitigate technical risks, resolve critical production incidents, and ensure all systems comply with Hong Kong banking security and regulatory requirements.
• Drive legacy system refactoring, technical upgrades and continuous architecture optimization for the mortgage platform.

Requirements:

• 8 to 15 years solid software development and technical leadership experience, fully aligned with HSBC GCB4 competency standards; proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise core systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and Spring Boot ecosystem, with extensive experience building enterprise-grade backend applications.
• Deep hands-on experience in PostgreSQL database design, development, performance tuning, indexing and production operation.
• Rich practical experience deploying, managing and operating Java & PostgreSQL workloads on AWS; skilled in AWS core services, cloud networking, IAM and cloud security controls.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, containerization and distributed system design.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, logging and alerting for production systems.
• In-depth knowledge of financial system architecture, data flow and banking-grade security requirements.
• Familiar with Hong Kong banking technical compliance and data protection regulations.
• Excellent technical communication and stakeholder management skills; fluent English for cross-team and cross-organization collaboration.
• Experience in building services on cloud.
• Experience in production support.
• 5+ years Tech Lead experience.
• A good learner with curiosity and passion in technology, who keeps updating his/her knowledge and knows how to acquire knowledge for problem resolving.
• Good communication skills to be able to express complex problems logically and briefly and to explore and dig information from surface.

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.