Job description
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.
Business: WS Tech HSBC UK
Principal responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership:
Design and define the architectural roadmap for the Digital Business Banking platform, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders, to align architecture with business goals.
Advocate and implement microservices-based architecture leveraging Java and Spring Boot frameworks.
- Development and Coding:
Actively participate in coding, design reviews, and solution implementation for critical components.
Build and maintain highly efficient, reusable, and reliable code in Java with strong adherence to coding standards.
- DevOps and CI/CD:
Drive the implementation of DevOps practices across teams, ensuring efficient CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with operations teams to build, deploy, and manage infrastructure as code using modern DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes).
Establish robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms to ensure platform reliability.
- Cloud and GCP Expertise:
Architect cloud-native solutions leveraging GCP services such as GKE, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
Guide teams in adopting GCP best practices for deployment, cost optimization, and security.
- Technical Strategy and Innovation:
Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to drive innovation and maintain competitive advantages.
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and thought leadership to engineering teams.
- Quality Assurance:
Ensure comprehensive testing strategies are integrated into the development lifecycle.
Promote secure coding practices and ensure compliance with banking security standards.
- Collaboration and Communication:
Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, clearly communicating architecture decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations.
Drive collaboration across distributed teams in agile environments.
Requirements
- Core Expertise:
Proficiency in Java (11+) and Spring Boot, with a strong understanding of backend development.
Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks like react .
- DevOps and CI/CD:
Expertise in building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
Hands-on knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Cloud Proficiency:
Proven experience designing and deploying applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Familiarity with GCP services such as GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
- Technical Leadership:
Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, make architectural decisions, and mentor teams.
Experience in defining and implementing architectural standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
- Banking/FinTech Knowledge (Preferred):
Experience in digital banking, payments or financial services domains is a plus.
Familiarity with regulatory compliance and security standards in banking.
Knowledge about Open Banking Payments, OBIE standards, Payment messaging etc would be preferred.
- Soft Skills:
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What additional skills will be good to have?
- Experience on banking / HSBC and understanding of how change drives benefits for HSBC, its customers and other stakeholders will be an advantage.
- Experience on HSBC business banking system knowledge will be an advantage.
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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