Associate Director, Software Engineering

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

Principal Responsibilities:

• Manage complicated, cross-platform production issues involving OS, Networking and Databases and on externally hosted platforms.
• Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines that implement DevSecOps principles as code.
• Agreed and develop SLOs/SLIs across engineering teams and with our Product Owners.
• Engage in new features and builds at inception to ensure and contribute to the overall quality of delivery.
• Form part of the wider banks’ community of SREs to share technology, run trials on new tools and to share success with wider teams.
• Build Application & Infrastructure performance tools while taking steps to improve overall stability of Production.
• Develop and enhance our existing Observability tooling stack.

Requirements:

• Previous SRE experience.
• Solid track record delivering agile projects at scale in a Fintechs or IBs.
• Ability to drive large scale organisational change in complex technical environment.
• Experience building and configuring monitoring/alerting (AppDynamics, Geneos, Datadog, Splunk, Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch).
• Demonstrable experience of working closely with Product Owners preferably in the Equites, 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.

What We Offer: 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.