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

Business: CIB - Credit & Lending Tech

Principal responsibilities

• The Software Engineering job is highly technical and hands-on providing leadership by example. The role enhances our engineering team’s capabilities by driving the implementation of effective technical solutions that maximise customer value. The role serves as a technical consultant with deep expertise across various domains and acts as a strategist, influencing engineering business decisions and processes, while also providing leadership in technical disciplines, competencies, and professions. Additionally, the role develops architectures, standards, and tools to guide the engineering function. The PE may be an individual contributor (IC) or lead a small team of other engineers.
• The Software Engineering job leads the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development, operation, maintenance and retirement of software applications, systems and platforms – encompassing devOps engineering discipline aimed at ensuing software meets user requirements, is reliable, scalable and efficient.
• The job will lead the end-to-end delivery of the software development lifecycle – expert level understanding of functional and non-functional requirements, software development (coding), technical testing, software release and production support activities.
• The role demands strong expertise in agile methodologies, with a deep understanding of continuous delivery and DevSecOps principles – must be able to do small, low-risk, high cadence change. Typically expected to complete regular production releases.
• In this role, technology or specific programming languages will not be a barrier to getting things done – the job requires engineers who are natural problem solvers with deep understanding of core technical principles and concepts, enabling them to be diverse to deliver impactful solutions.
• The role will also ensure the delivery of high-quality products by enforcing rigorous automated testing, code reviews and performance optimisation.
• Collaborate directly with Product Owners without the involvement of intermediary roles such as architects, technical leads, business analysts, scrum master and project managers.
• Leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, foster a culture of technical excellence, encouraging best practices in software development.
• Manage the software development process to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to specification.
• Lead research of new technologies and drive their adoption to stay abreast of industry trends and standards.
• Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture matches business needs.
• Communicate with code, can identify a problem or an opportunity and then engineers a solution.
• Lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of HSBC’s development standards in order to ensure that technology can be leveraged as a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Demonstrate mastery of technical discipline – and explain technology well to business people or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction.
• Collaborates across functional areas to define, prioritize and ensure implementation of specific innovations to improve technical functionality in support of business needs, efficiencies and revenue.

• Communicate ideas succinctly, including technical big picture vision, strategy and direction to all audiences.
• Sell HSBC as a company and their organization as a team to potential candidates. Inspires potential recruits to join the company.
• Apply strategic thinking to many problems  - a generalist, not a specialist in one domain (e.g. just networks).
• Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of other engineers - continuously improves themselves and their team.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant part of that in a leadership role.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services (AWS, Azure), and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Software Development Methodologies like Agile, Scrum, and other development methodologies.
• Skills to drive projects, ensuring delivery aligns with timelines and quality standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Ability to collaborate effectively with various teams, including business stakeholders, project managers, and other technical teams.
• Ability to analyze complex issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Familiarity with compliance, regulatory standards, and security protocols as they relate to software development in the financial sector.
• Possession of relevant professional certifications (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster, or PMP) can be a plus.

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.

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