Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are on a mission to reshape how software is built at HSBC — leading the design and development of a next-generation application platform that delivers best-in-class tooling, seamless automation, and an uncompromising developer experience, empowering thousands of engineers to move faster, build smarter, and operate with confidence at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Set end-to-end technical direction for enterprise Java/Spring Boot microservices on AWS powering GenAI-enabled secured lending journeys (assistants, summarisation, content generation, workflow automation).
• Own service architecture and API standards: domain/service boundaries, integration patterns, REST/gRPC design, OpenAPI, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Drive engineering excellence via design reviews, clean architecture, secure coding, and high automated test coverage (unit/contract/integration/performance).
• Build resilient, high-performing services using proven patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, caching), plus idempotent and traceable sync/async integrations.
• Engineer safe GenAI integrations to approved LLM platforms (API/SDK), including streaming and tool/function calling with robust error handling.
• Implement GenAI orchestration and controls: prompt templates, session management, post-processing, guardrails (validation/filtering/prompt-injection defences), safe completion and fallbacks.
• Design and operate secure cloud-native workloads on AWS (EKS/ECS, autoscaling, blue/green/canary), leveraging API Gateway/ALB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge and Lambda where appropriate.
• Embed security, governance and operability by design: OAuth2/OIDC, encryption, secrets/KMS, audit logging, PII minimisation, CI/CD quality gates, SLOs/runbooks, and full observability (logs/metrics/traces + GenAI monitoring for latency, errors, tokens, throttling, provider health).

To be successful, you will

• Proven track record leading production delivery of Java microservices, accountable for architecture decisions, build quality, and operational outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Java + Spring Boot (MVC/WebFlux, Security, Data) with strong clean-code practices and disciplined testing.
• Strong API engineering capability: well-designed REST/gRPC APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, contract-first thinking, and safe versioning/backward compatibility.
• Confident in microservices best practices: decomposition, configuration management, distributed tracing, and resilience/fault-tolerance patterns.
• Hands-on AWS engineering skills to design/run secure, scalable, cost-effective services (VPC/IAM, private connectivity, scaling, cost optimisation).
• Strong containerisation and CI/CD experience (Docker, EKS/ECS) with automated pipelines and quality gates (tests, SAST/DAST where applicable).
• Demonstrable observability and reliability mindset using OpenTelemetry and AWS tooling (CloudWatch/X-Ray or equivalent) to meet SLOs and speed up diagnosis.
• Practical GenAI/LLM integration experience in regulated environments: prompting patterns, grounding/citations where needed, streaming/tool calling, rate-limit/cost management, and privacy-by-design controls.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India