# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Guangzhou
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Some careers have more impact than others. If you're looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you'll be.

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

As a key member of our technology team, you will be responsible for managing complex, cross-platform production issues involving operating systems, networking, and databases, as well as externally hosted platforms. You will also develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines that implement DevSecOps principles as code.

In addition, you will engage in new feature development and builds at inception to ensure and contribute to the overall quality of delivery. You will form part of the wider bank's community of SREs to share technology, run trials on new tools, and share successes with wider teams.

You will build application and infrastructure performance tools while taking steps to improve overall stability of production. You will also develop and enhance our existing observability tooling stack.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage complex, cross-platform production issues involving operating systems, networking, and databases, as well as externally hosted platforms

- Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines that implement DevSecOps principles as code

- Engage in new feature development and builds at inception to ensure and contribute to the overall quality of delivery

- Form part of the wider bank's community of SREs to share technology, run trials on new tools, and share successes with wider teams

- Build application and infrastructure performance tools while taking steps to improve overall stability of production

- Develop and enhance our existing observability tooling stack

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:

- Previous SRE experience

- Solid track record delivering agile projects at scale in a fintech or IB

- Ability to drive large-scale organisational change in a complex technical environment

- Experience building and configuring monitoring/alerting tools (AppDynamics, Geneos, Datadog, Splunk, Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch)

- Demonstrable experience of working closely with product owners, preferably in the equities, FX, and structured products space

- 2+ years of software engineering experience in one or more of the following languages - Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript

- Experience developing enterprise technology in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, ACS)

- Fluent in both Mandarin and English

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC. HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected, and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- C/C++
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- AppDynamics
- Geneos
- Datadog
- Splunk
- AWS Cloudwatch

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