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Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

HSBC
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senior full-time Guangzhou, Guangdong

First indexed 14 Aug 2026

Description

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

Principal Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship production-quality services in line with technology standards, governance, and business controls.
  • Assist with the design, iteration, and optimisation of prompts for a wide range of LLM use cases,instruction following, structured output generation, classification, summarisation, code generation, and reasoning tasks.
  • Build and manage prompt libraries and versioning strategies, treating prompts as first-class engineering artefacts.
  • Collaborate with product and domain teams to translate business requirements into precise, well-structured prompt specifications.

Agentic AI & LLM Integration

  • Support and drive the implementation, and maintenance of agentic systems,autonomous agents, multi-agent pipelines, tool-use workflows, planning loops, and memory-augmented reasoning.
  • Implement LLM observability (logging, tracing, evaluation pipelines, and guardrails) to maintain quality and reliability in production AI systems.
  • Advise on responsible AI deployment, including output validation, human-in-the-loop design, and risk mitigation for agentic workflows.

Team Leadership, Product/Agile Partnership & Global Engagement

  • Serve as part of the local team engineering leadership, helping set direction, priorities, and delivery standards for the engineering pods within Fincrime Investigations valuestream - with functional and entity management responsibilities.
  • Partner closely with Product Management to clarify value, scope, and success measures; contribute to discovery, solution options, and delivery plans.
  • Work day-to-day with agile delivery partners (e.g., Scrum Masters/Delivery Leads) to maintain a healthy delivery cadence, manage dependencies, and ensure transparent reporting of progress, risks, and blockers.

Requirements

  • Full-Stack Engineering

+ Strong proficiency in Java / Spring Boot,REST APIs, event-driven services, security, and performance optimisation. + Solid React development skills and API integration. + Experience with relational and in-memory databases (PostgreSQL, Redis). + Messaging and streaming platforms,Kafka (or equivalent).

  • Prompt Engineering

+ Demonstrable, hands-on experience engineering prompts for production LLM applications (not just prototypes). + Understanding of tokenisation, context limits, temperature tuning, and model-specific behaviours across major LLM providers. + Experience structuring prompts for tool/function calling, structured JSON output, and multi-turn conversations.

  • DevOps & Infrastructure

+ Kubernetes,deployments, services, ingress, Helm, Kustomize, HPA, and RBAC. + CI/CD pipelines,GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent. + Infrastructure as code,Terraform. + Cloud platforms,AWS, AliCloud,GCP, or Azure.

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