# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guangzhou_Xi'an_GenAI Agent Platform)

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

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (GenAI Agent Platform).

Principal responsibilities:

- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define, build and implement a Generative AI Agent platform supporting priority banking services from discovery through production rollout.

- Architect enterprise-grade platform capabilities, including agent orchestration, workflow design, tool/function integration, memory and state management, skill registry/management, and reusable patterns that enable consistent delivery across teams.

- Drive platform adoption at scale by creating reference implementations, onboarding pathways, developer enablement, and governance that accelerates safe, repeatable delivery of agent solutions.

- Own platform performance management: define success metrics and SLOs, implement observability, run evaluations, and continuously tune reliability, accuracy, latency and cost to optimise outcomes.

- Oversee end-to-end delivery execution, proactively managing scope, risks, dependencies and milestones; coordinate across teams to remove blockers and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.

- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating technical options into clear recommendations, trade-offs, and delivery plans to support informed decision-making.

- Stay current on GenAI/agent advancements, assess applicability to HSBC use cases, and drive pragmatic upgrades that keep the platform secure, compliant and competitive.

Requirements:

- Education & English: Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science/Engineering; strong communication skills including verbal communication in English.

- Software Engineering: 5+ years’ hands-on coding practice, strong Python or Java or Golang, with usage of at least one major cloud; ability to deploy and operate services in production.

- GenAI / LLM Delivery: 2+ years building and shipping LLM/GenAI applications; Proven practices with agentic workflows, multi-agents, and tool/function calling.

- Problem-solving & commitment, strong ability to develop creative solutions to complex challenges, working effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Demonstrates an AI-native mindset by applying AI-driven approaches to improve productivity, quality, and engineering best practices.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- Golang
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GenAI
- LLM
- LangChain
- LangGraph

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