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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 Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will:

• Provide coaching and guiding directly or indirectly to engineering teams by giving clear technical direction, feedback and timely suggestions to ensure a high-quality standard of deliverables according to HSBC standards and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilising their skills and expertise to carry out software development, testing and operational support activities typically being deployed to resolve the most challenging and/or impactful projects or deliveries
• End to end accountability for a product or service, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions to meet customer needs as part of the Customer Journey
• Address existing technical engineering debt and drive for technical evolution aka Digital Transformation for the teams by working closely with various parties including business, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architects globally. 
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service’s direction.
• Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.
• Create technical test plans and records, including unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.
• Provide support to DevOps teams working at all stages of a product or service release/change with a strong customer focus and end to end journeys, ensuring they have an excellent domain knowledge.
• Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.
• Provide support in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by leadership of the DevOps team,  
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
• Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable
• Work with industry groups/peers and vendors outside of HSBC to establish and maintain HSBC's involvement and influence in the engineering space. 
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices with the domain and across HSBC
• Work with the Engineering Practice to promote development of engineers through coaching, and mentoring.
• Identify as an authority for specific engineering disciplines providing steer/assistance to programmes or projects that require it. 

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

• Currently be a hands-on full stack developer and possess a minimal of 17+ years’ experience of hands-on software development.
• Possess strong demonstrable technical capabilities (API, microservices, Java, web-based technologies, ReactJS, database, artificial intelligence, etc), 
  
• Experience with cloud native development and public cloud providers like GCP or Azure
• Experience implementing customer facing applications
  
• Very good understanding of technology and its application, e.g., mobile app, host to host technologies, artificial intelligence, microservices, etc.
  
• Knowledge and experience on DevOps, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Agile control Framework.  
  
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholder in both business and technology.
  
• Have people leadership capability and experience leading engineering distributed teams encompassing 30+ staff.                            
  
• Are passionate about technology and look for opportunities to learn & bring new ideas to the team.
  
• Have experience with Production Support and incident management 
  
• Excellent knowledge of their technical environment and will have significant responsibility in setting the way forward in the types of technology they look after. Forward thinking, making the right decisions based on strategy
  
• Strong communication skills to help for negotiating, collaborating, presenting, facilitating, influencing engineering teams, stakeholders, etc.
  
• Demonstrable ability to mentor, develop talent and motivate staff to reach their optimum performance levels and career development
  
• Want to be part of a world class team, working for a business with a need and appreciation for excellent software engineers
  
• “Can-do” attitude and problem-solving mindset.
  
•  Self-starter
  

The successful candidate will also meet the following requirements:

• “Can-do” attitude and problem-solving mindset.
  
•  Self-starter

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India