# Associate Director, Software Engineering (Document Intelligence Platform)

**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 (Document Intelligence Platform).

Principal responsibilities:

- Lead product innovation and brainstorming for AI-powered document intelligence scenarios.

- Translate requirements into structured, scalable enterprise product solutions.

- Drive continuous product iteration and value optimization with technical and business teams.

- Build a platform for Document Intelligence to enable enterprise AI use cases, delivering standardised, robust, and scalable solutions that meet growing business demand.

- Design and implement scalable solutions to support AI services, workflows and platform capabilities end-to-end.

- Own architecture and technical governance by conducting design/architecture reviews and enforcing engineering standards, coding practices, documentation, and quality assurance.

- Lead the team with hands-on engineering experience to focus on API development, unit/integration testing, defect resolution, and partnering with QA on test cases and test data preparation.

- Collaborate with stakeholders across systems (upstream/downstream) to define requirements and design effective, well-governed API interfaces.

- Strengthen DevOps and engineering processes to improve delivery and support efficiency while ensuring adherence to established standards.

- Deploy and scale on cloud platforms by leveraging GCP and Kubernetes to manage applications effectively in enterprise environments.

- Ensure reliability, performance, and compliance through monitoring, load/performance testing, optimisation, and incident response to maintain low latency, high throughput, and stable operations.

Requirements:

- 3+ years end-to-end enterprise B-end AI product design experience.

- 5+ years of technical background, with solid understanding of AI, LLM and intelligent document processing technologies.

- Strong business abstraction capability and innovative product mindset.

- Excellent cross-functional communication and project driving skills.

- Act as a senior tech lead with strong solution design and hands-on coding expertise, demonstrating excellent technical problem-solving as well as strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.

- Hold a university degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

- Bring 10+ years of IT experience (preferably in enterprise application or platform development) with 6+ years’ hands-on proficiency in Java and Python for backend and platform engineering.

- 5+ years IT lead experience on in-house solution.

- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, micro-frontend architecture, and LLM new solutions a strong advantage.

- Experienced in leveraging coding assistants (e.g., AI pair-programming tools) to accelerate software development, enhance code quality, and support engineering best practices.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- LLM
- intelligent document processing
- Java
- Python
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- micro-frontend architecture

### Nice to have
- coding assistants
- AI pair-programming tools

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