Lead Python Fullstack engineer/Associate Director

Job Description

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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.

Analytics Foundations Enabler IT team provides the required IT platform for the model developers to develop / train models and eventually deploy them in an automated way into production. Analytics Foundations Enabler IT team ensures these models are packaged such that they are exposed as 'Model as a Service' to be consumed by various business functions as part of their data driven decisioning use cases.

We are seeking a talented and experienced POD Lead to join our dynamic team, with experience in software development and a strong background in Python, GCP, Angular, and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of technical leadership, stakeholder management, and excellent communication skills. This role will involve working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions while driving innovation and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the successful delivery of software projects.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize software requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Conceptualise, design, develop and reuse effective engineering design, patterns & frameworks using Python, GCP, Angular, and Kubernetes, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the team to identify and implement process improvements and innovative solutions.
• Act as an IT Service Owner and ensure compliance across Incident, Problem, Change/Release management and other associated IT controls
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
• Drive operational, delivery and engineering excellence across the pod teams. Be accountable for production and for delivery.

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

• 12+ years of experience in software development, with a strong background in Python, Java Springboot, GCP, Angular, and Kubernetes, awareness of Model Life Cycle Management & MLOPs will be a plus.
• Proven experience in technical leadership, managing software development teams, and delivering complex software projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Software engineering skills: Microservice architecture patterns, frameworks like FastAPI, REST APIs and experience around API Security Standards, API Gateway, Service Mesh
• Devops skills: Proficiency in tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
• Orchestrating data pipelines: Setting up and automating data pipelines using tools such as Airflow and familiarity with data processing technologies including NumPy, Pandas, Amazon S3, Kubeflow, Dataflow
• Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies like Prometheus, Appdynamics, Splunk, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry.
• GCP Experience around management of GKE clusters,
• Good to have skills: Programming, working knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks, like scikit learn, PyTorch; Familiarity on industry solutions like Google Vertex AI

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India