Description
Join HSBC and fulfil your potential in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to lead our software engineering team and drive practical improvement initiatives to address SDLC bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and friction points across teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with Engineering, Platform, and Risk and Control stakeholders to improve delivery flow, change quality, stability, resiliency, and operational effectiveness.
- Defining and driving the adoption of DORA, SPACE, and broader engineering metrics to create visibility, support prioritisation, and improve performance outcomes.
- Establishing and maintaining automated reporting to provide clear views of current performance, root-cause analysis, trends, and recommended actions.
- Leading engineering and operational automation initiatives across areas such as testing, deployment, patching, recovery, and health checks.
- Creating and maintaining a central engineering knowledge space and operating cadence to support governance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
To be successful, you will have 12+ years of engineering experience across the full software delivery lifecycle, with strong engineering leadership capability and hands-on experience in coding.
You will also bring proven experience across engineering excellence, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or software delivery improvement roles, and demonstrate strong ability to identify SDLC bottlenecks, prioritise improvement opportunities, and convert insight into practical cross-team action.
Additional requirements include:
- Strong understanding of DORA metrics and good knowledge of SPACE or broader engineering productivity and developer experience measures.
- Solid knowledge of software development, testing, release management, incident management, service recovery, and operational resilience practices.
- Experience leading automation initiatives across testing, deployment, patching, recovery, and operational health checks.
- An AI-driven mindset, with the ability to identify practical opportunities to use AI to improve engineering efficiency, analysis, decision-making, and delivery effectiveness.
- Excellent analytical, communication, problem-solving, and delivery leadership skills.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.