# Associate Director, Tech SME

**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, Tech SME.

**Principal Responsibilities**

- Architecture Strategy & Roadmaps: Define target and transitional architectures for Private Banking CRM and related ecosystems, produce and maintain architectural roadmaps, capability maps, and evolution plans aligned to business outcomes and regulatory mandates.

- Solution Design & Governance: Lead end-to-end solution architecture for new initiatives, establish and enforce architecture standards, run design reviews and govern adherence to reference architectures, technical policies, and regulatory controls.

- Integration & API Architecture: Define integration patterns, oversee API portfolio lifecycle, guide interoperability between Java services, Power Platform components, and legacy/external systems.

- Power Platform Architectural Oversight: Architect governance for environments, solution segmentation, Dataverse data models, connector design, and ALM alignment with enterprise standards.

- Non-Functional Engineering & Risk Mitigation: Define and validate non-functional requirements, champion threat modeling, secure design, data classification handling, and compliance traceability.

- Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Advise engineering leads on design trade-offs, mentor architects and senior engineers, facilitate cross-functional alignment.

- Standards, Patterns & Reuse: Curate reusable patterns, promote architecture decision records and structured documentation.

- Quality & Support Readiness: Validate solution designs for operational readiness, support major incident post-mortems with architectural remediation inputs.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

- 8+ years progressive experience in solution / software architecture within regulated financial services.

- Strong expertise in API and integration architecture, practical Power Platform architectural governance, proficiency in cloud architecture, security patterns, and container/microservices concepts.

- Skilled in modeling, architectural documentation, and decision recording.

- Solid understanding of non-functional engineering and regulatory/compliance requirements.

- Experience establishing and governing architecture standards and conducting design reviews across multiple squads.

- Strong stakeholder management and concise communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- API architecture
- integration architecture
- Power Platform
- cloud architecture
- security patterns
- container/microservices concepts
- modeling
- architectural documentation
- decision recording
- non-functional engineering
- regulatory/compliance requirements

### Nice to have
- TOGAF
- cloud (Azure)
- security
- Java

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