# Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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

Principal responsibilities:

- Lead the engineering design and delivery of technology solutions aligned to business strategy, architecture standards, and engineering principles.

- Own end-to-end delivery oversight, including scope, plan, milestones, dependencies, RAID management, and release readiness.

- Drive engineering excellence across SDLC, coding standards, test strategy, automation, CI/CD, and non-functional requirements (performance, security, resilience).

- Streamline and standardise the Investment & Managed Solutions FSA, improving governance, controls, and operational efficiency.

- Ensure solutions meet regulatory expectations, risk policies, operational resilience requirements, and audit/documentation standards.

- Identify, prioritise, and drive adoption of AI use cases within SVS, ensuring controlled delivery, change management, and benefits realisation.

- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Risk/Compliance to translate requirements into deliverable, supportable engineering outcomes.

- Lead stakeholder engagement at multiple levels, communicating engineering decisions, trade-offs, delivery status, and outcomes clearly.

- Promote agile ways of working (SAFe) and continuous improvement across teams and delivery processes.

- Provide mentorship, coaching, and performance support to engineers and junior leaders, building capability and a strong engineering culture.

- Ensure quality deliverables are produced on time and within budget, with clear accountability for outcomes.

- Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate opportunities to improve client experience, reliability, and operational efficiency.

- Support department objectives and strategic initiatives as required.

Requirements:

- Strong English communication skills (written and spoken), with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders.

- Proven experience leading engineering delivery in complex environments with multiple teams and dependencies.

- Strong domain knowledge in investment products, including funds, discretionary/managed portfolios, alternatives, and related services.

- Experience working in a global set-up across time zones with distributed, multicultural teams.

- Strong ownership mindset with clear accountability for engineering outcomes, delivery quality, and risk/control adherence.

- Practical experience with Agile (SAFe) delivery and DevOps practices (CI/CD, automated testing, release discipline).

- Experience with delivery and engineering tooling such as Jira and Confluence.

- Strong interpersonal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with a proactive, delivery-focused approach.

- Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills

- Positive, proactive and can-do attitude

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Jira
- Confluence
- English communication
- stakeholder management
- engineering delivery

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