Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

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

In this role you will :

Develop and maintain software products in Digital Foundations technology stack including Java / Springboot API Microservices, and supporting services.

Provide support across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle. Carry out software development, testing and operational support activities with the ability to move between the technology stacks.

Advocate and advance modern software development practices within the mobile engineering community.

Grow the technical expertise of engineering community.

Helping with designing, maintaining and improving all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle

Collaborate with technical leaders and product owners to contribute to product and project strategy, code standards, roadmap definition, and requirements gathering.

Collaborate with the recruiting team and regional Heads of Engineering to attract, onboard and retain diverse top talent.

Participate in broader discussions about future state software architecture.

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.

Liaise with other engineers, architects, agile coaches, and other stakeholders to understand and drive the Digital Foundation software products.

Work closely with teams, product owners, agile coaches and other stakeholders to ensure we deliver world-class tools and capabilities for our engineering community.

Actively participate in the Engineering Discipline and associated communities.

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.

Requirements

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

• Knowledge of cloud environments, being AWS a plus.
• Experience as Lead in a large-scale engineering environmen
• Strong Leadership
• Mentoring Senior Engineers
• Passionate about open-source ways of working
• You have experience in fostering a strong engineering culture in an agile and DevOps environment
• Track record of identifying and implementing opportunities to enable engineers to develop more productively and with high quality
• Experience collaborating effectively across multiple engineering centers in multiple territories
• Credibility and ability to influence stakeholders convincingly with well-considered logic
• Advocate for quality and ambassador for writing testable code
• Knowledge of agile project management with cross functional teams, using Jira and Confluence
• We promote a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.