GCP /Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

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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:

• This role is part of the Innovation and Gen AI tech team and is responsible for supporting the use cases delivery on Innovation and GenAI, including: New use case onboarding; design, development/coding, testing & deployment into Production.
•  Understand Group and Compliance/Enterprise Technology Innovation strategy, help define technical strategy and execute which to fulfill business needs and aspirations on growth, management and control.
• Work with global Risk and Compliance IT architecture team to ensure that technical solution, development, and integrations adhere to group standards.
• Establish and execute a vision to plan, deliver, and support solutions in a complex, distributed technology environment. The ideal candidate must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
•   Plan for people and project management, provide coaching and guiding directly or indirectly to teams having developers, testers, analyst and architects inside by giving clear direction, feedbacks and timely suggestions to ensure a high quality standard of deliverables according to HSBC standards and best practices.
•  Address existing technical debt and drive for technical evolutions Innovation and Digital Transformation for the teams by working closely with various parties including business, Transformation, Solution Architects globally.
•  Establish and maintain trustworthy relationships with business and relevant stakeholders. Manage expectation of key stakeholders and work jointly to maximize interest of business and customers
•   Manage supply and demand pipeline and give guidance, direction for making decision to achieve goals, deliver products that align with business.  

You will be tenacious about doing things the right way and building efficient and 'brilliantly simple' business solutions. You will also be adept at working in customer facing roles within enterprise environments, helping clients to capitalise on technology for their commercial benefit. 

• High Level & Holistic Capabilities sought
•  Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; advanced degree is preferred
•  GCP or AWS certified (GCP preferred)
• Prompt engineering experience preferred
• Expert level core Java / Python skills
• Minimal 15+ years' experience of software developments with both waterfall and Agile methodologie
•  Have experience leading and managing agile, cross function delivery teams encompassing 30+ staff (direct and indirect reports).
• Possess strong technical capabilities (BigData, AI/ML, API, Microservices), knowledge and experience on DevOps, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and Agile control Framework.
•  Are passionate about technology and look for opportunities to learn & bring new ideas to the team.
• Sound understanding of Azure / Google Cloud platforms
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Storage, Cloud Functions
• Experience in performing data analysis, on Databases (SQL, no-SQL, DBT)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Data Flow, Data Proc, Big Query skills an advantage
• Security (IAM, AD, ADLDS, roles, service accounts, entitlements)
•  Events & Data Streaming: Data Proc, Pub-Sub, Confluent/Kafka
• Ability to communicate and explain complex ideas in both oral and written English

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Issued by – HSDI