# 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:

- Own the technical direction, architecture and engineering roadmap for the financial-planning platform in partnership with Product, Business and Architecture teams.

- Lead by example through hands-on design, development, code review, debugging and resolution of complex production issues.

- Design and deliver scalable, secure and resilient microservices and AI capabilities, including APIs, event-driven integration, AI agents, tool use, retrieval and orchestration.

- Apply AI and agentic workflows across requirements, development, testing, documentation and release processes to improve delivery speed, quality, automation and cost efficiency.

- Establish engineering and AI-development standards covering automated testing, CI/CD, evaluation, guardrails, observability, security and responsible use of AI.

- Own delivery from requirements clarification to production, managing priorities, dependencies, technical debt, risks and stakeholder expectations.

- Coach engineers, build a strong engineering culture and create reusable patterns and guidelines that help other teams adopt emerging technologies effectively.

Requirements:

- Deep hands-on expertise in either Java or Python, with substantial experience designing and delivering production-grade software.

- Proven technical leadership experience, including setting technical direction, leading complex delivery and developing engineers in a global team environment.

- Practical experience with generative AI or agentic systems, such as LLM integration, RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.

- Experience applying AI-enabled development practices to achieve measurable improvements in engineering productivity, quality or automation.

- Strong knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, automated testing and CI/CD.

- Ability to translate business requirements into incremental production outcomes and clearly communicate technical options, risks and trade-offs to business and technology stakeholders.

- A growth mindset and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies, turn experiments into production capabilities and balance innovation with security, resilience and regulatory controls.

- Excellent written and spoken English.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- microservices
- APIs
- event-driven architecture
- PostgreSQL
- automated testing
- CI/CD
- generative AI
- agentic systems

### Nice to have
- LangChain

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