# Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Shenzhen, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612097303?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e358436e-426

## Description

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

**Principal Responsibilities:**

- Lead cloud and infrastructure strategy: target architecture, roadmaps, standards, platform adoption

- Own reliability and resilience: availability, DR/BCP, capacity planning, performance, SLOs/SLAs

- Run secure-by-design operations: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, patching, vulnerability remediation

- Drive infrastructure automation: IaC (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD, configuration management, self-service tooling

- Manage hybrid environments: public cloud + on-prem, container platforms, OS/middleware lifecycle, third-party services

- Govern service operations: incident/problem/change management, runbooks, observability, cost optimisation (FinOps)

- Lead the team and stakeholders: coaching, delivery planning, vendor management, cross-functional collaboration and risk ownership

**Requirements:**

- Strong public cloud infrastructure setup and operations: AWS (primary); exposure to Azure, GCP, AliCloud

- Strong experience leading cloud and infrastructure engineering in enterprise environments (public cloud and hybrid)

- Hands-on IaC (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipeline experience

- Proven experience in AI and machine learning, preferably in the banking or financial services industry

- Experience designing/implementing an AI platform; familiarity with Kong / Higress (or similar gateway/platform tools)

- Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration (technical and non-technical)

- Problem-solving & commitment, strong ability to develop creative solutions to complex challenges, working effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Demonstrates an AI-native mindset by applying AI-driven approaches, including coding assistants, to improve productivity, quality, and engineering best practices

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- AliCloud
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- CI/CD
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Kong
- Higress

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