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:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across business, architects, leadership team, service line heads to deliver sharable engineering artifacts.
• Work with Tech PO and Tech lead to shape the scope and convert it to tangible items.
• Collaborate with central teams (architecture, security, engineering, networks) who are responsible for delivering HSBC baseline cloud architecture.
• Collaborate with service lines to co-design and set up common standards and practice, to avoid duplicated technical artifacts.
• Ensure DevSecOps capabilities are built in as part of the solution.
• Ensure solution aligns with FSA.
• Deliver engineering solution for common capabilities cross sub-valuestream.

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; advanced degree is preferred.
• GCP or AWS certified (GCP preferred).
• Solid knowledge and 10+ years hands-on experiences in below techniques / practices:
• Experience of migration to GCP and integration projects on large scale environment.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Dockers, Storage, Cloud Functions.
• Experience to perform data analysis, on Databases (SQL, no-SQL, DBT).
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Java, springboot & spring cloud, Zuul gateway, workflow(flowable, BPM).
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiar with Micro-service and API first development.
• Security (IAM, AD, ADLDS, roles, service accounts, entitlements).
• Experience on Micro-service E2E Design/Deployment.
• Hands on experience on service mesh.
• Familiar with service observability.
• Hands on experience on caching implementation.
• Hands on experience on Redis.
• DevSecOps principles & automation (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub).
• Events & Data Streaming: Data Proc, Pub-Sub, Confluent/Kafka.
• Familiar with TCP/IP network design including addressing, routing, switches, firewalls, and routers.
• Agile development practices & tools (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• Strong problem-solving skills and capability of working independently and under pressure.
• Ability to communicate explain complex ideas in both oral and written English.
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience in Banking and Financial Services with good understanding of the legal and compliance business.
• Good communication (verbal & written) skillset to explain complex ideas.
• Ability to work as a tech lead of an agile program (familiarity with agile methodology).
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
• Keen to learn and keen to mentor.
• Experience in delivering complex solutions at large organizations of varying size and complexity.
• Experience working in a global environment.
• Highly motivated, outcome driven and results oriented with the ability to prioritize and drive measurable value.
• Innovative.