Engineering Lead /Sr. Associate Director, Technology Management

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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 organisations 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 realise their ambitions.

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

In this role, you will:

• Lead design and delivery of cloud-native, high-performance data pipelines and microservices.
• Build and support solutions using Java (incl. Java 8), Spring Boot 3, Microservices, PostgreSQL, JPA, JavaScript, MongoDB, Apache Flink (real-time streaming focus) and Apache Beam.
• Drive GCP-based engineering across Dataflow, BigQuery/ClickHouse, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage/GCS, Composer, plus Apache Airflow, GKE, and Python for scripting, automation and automated testing.
• Own live production applications, modernise legacy stacks, and partner with cross-functional teams to shape and deliver new features and enhancements.
• Define transformation roadmaps and lead migration of legacy applications to modern, cloud-native architectures (including re-platforming/refactoring to microservices), with minimal disruption to service with focus on service resilience
• Monitor and optimise pipeline and application performance; ensure data quality, integrity and security end-to-end.
• Coach and mentor engineers across levels; keep the team current on data engineering trends and best practices.

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

• 18+ years in development engineering, with strong experience in ETL and data pipeline delivery.
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or similar); relevant industry certifications are a plus.
• Strong leadership plus hands-on capability in Java and SQL; front-end exposure to React and TypeScript.
• Solid problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for complex data and application issues.
• Clear communicator who collaborates well with teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Proactive risk/issue reporting with practical mitigation plans.Working knowledge of Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Stackdriver.
• Good grasp of security best practices for cloud and Kubernetes; DevOps skills are an advantage.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India