HSBC Group

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

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

Business: CIB - GPS Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Technical Leadership on design, development, implementation and testing to ensure the delivery of high-quality IT solutions;
• Lead GPS projects implemenation that aligns with all FSA directions and standards through cross organization consulting and direct involvement in development efforts.
• Communicate with relevant stake holders regarding resolving issues related to delivery of projects.
• Collaborate with cross teams, including development, test, business analyst and other relevant stakeholder to resolve technical queries or incidents with work around and long-term solution.
• Present, develop and apply program fix on application defects according to HSBC Change Management standard.
• Ability to influence key stakeholders in order to achieve the best desired outcome.
• Understanding the functional and non-functional requirements through regular interactions with the Business Analysts, SMEs and Solution Architects.
• Take lead in designing the solution which is more reusable and maintainable.
• Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development life-cycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.
• Provides accurate estimates and status to management, raising issues appropriately.
• Ensure that development is done with the highest quality measured by defect counts and defect ratios.
• Provide Application incident on-call support during off business hours, and provide Weekend/Public Holiday Application Support per project delivery and Business needs.

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant discipline;
• 10+ years of engineering experience with solid hands-on development experience and keeps coding in recent years;
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, track record of leading and delivering new IT solutions of large scale with significant impact to the business;
• Strong experience in leading senior engineers for the delivery of complex deployment projects and under diversified / matrix structure;
• Solid experience in technical solution design on large scale projects. Extensive knowledge in design patterns and best practices;
• Rich experience in Micro Service solution, implementation and maintenance; rich coding experience with Java in recent years;
• Rich experience with Containerization and Cloud solutions on AWS / GCP / Azure / Ali Cloud platform;
• Familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Solid experience with DevSecOps tooling and best practices, such as deployment automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools and test automation framework;
• Practical application of Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles and Testing Automation;
• Foundational knowledge and awareness of trendy technologies such as AI / ML and be prepared with potential use cases;
• Strong passion for technology, keeps learning and up-skilled with new technical stacks; capable of researching new technologies with PoC by yourself.
• Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and fluent in English.

What additional skills will be good to have? 

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the capacity to foster partnership among project participants and collaborate with them to ensure successful solution alignment and project delivery

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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.

Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website. 

***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***