Associate Director, Software Engineering

Join HSBC as an Associate Director, Software Engineering and help build highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth.

In this role, you will:

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Design and deliver end-to-end integration solutions (Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, and CI/CD) for applications.
• Collaborate with designers, front-end engineers, and back-end engineers to create reliable APIs.
• Review and be responsible for code quality, facilitating development, testing support, production support, and implementation of End-to-End Integration applications.
• Improve system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures.
• Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, and designing and implementing systems.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
• Liaise with colleagues to implement technical designs.
• Investigate and use new technologies where relevant.
• Work flexibly in shifts and provide on-call support.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 15+ years of overall IT experience with Java, Spring Boot, CloudSQL, GCP.
• Extensive experience on APIs and Web/Micro Services (REST, SOAP).
• API Contract Design (RAML/Swagger).
• Well-versed in API integration, Service-oriented architecture, and development.
• Databases (relational, non-relational) ideally Cloud SQL.
• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Experience within Python would be preferred.
• Experience in solution design/architecture and development on modular Java applications/APIs and Database.
• Proven ability to define and build architecturally sound solution designs.
• Experience in estimating development efforts and delivery planning.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts like firewalls, proxy servers, gateways.
• Experience on cloud platforms (GCP is preferred).

Process:

• Ensure strict adherence to all regulatory issues and compliance of all internal controls.
• Adhere to all corporate policies, code of conduct, and Group Compliance Policy.

Communication:

• Great stakeholder and communication skills, to influence organisationally and deliver positive enduring change.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to see things through the eyes of our customers and colleagues.