# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**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 Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

- Define the long-term technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap for IBM Z and IBM i platforms.

- Govern the end-to-end platform lifecycle, from design and implementation through operation, maintenance, and modernization.

- Architect highly available and resilient solutions using Parallel Sysplex, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex, PowerHA, and Db2 Mirror.

- Establish disaster recovery strategies and lead root-cause analysis for major incidents to prevent recurrence.

- Implement OpenTelemetry standards and enable end-to-end observability across mainframe, middleware, and distributed cloud services.

- Drive Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and Policy as Code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and z/OS Management Facility.

- Strengthen platform security through pervasive encryption, crypto-agility, least-privilege access, and quantum-safe cryptography.

- Lead the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid-cloud technologies to improve engineering efficiency and workload optimization.

Requirements:

- Deep expertise in IBM Z engineering (for example z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex, Workload management, systems performance and capacity analysis).

- Proven capability designing and governing high availability and disaster recovery solutions for critical workloads.

- Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, context propagation, and enterprise observability.

- Hands-on expertise with core middleware and data technologies, including CICS, DB2, MQ, and z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.

- Practical experience with automation and continuous integration and delivery tools, including Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, and Jenkins.

- Strong knowledge of enterprise security, encryption, access controls, regulatory compliance, and technology risk management.

- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills in global, multidisciplinary environments.

## Skills

### Required
- IBM Z engineering
- z/OS
- Parallel Sysplex
- Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex
- Workload management
- systems performance and capacity analysis
- OpenTelemetry
- distributed tracing
- context propagation
- enterprise observability
- CICS
- DB2
- MQ
- z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition
- Ansible
- Terraform
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- enterprise security
- encryption
- access controls
- regulatory compliance
- technology risk management

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