Regional Head of Engineering OBKYC/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:

Reinforcing engineering excellence:

• As a member of the CIB Client Services Engineering Leadership team, help to drive engineering principles and transformation across our India team.
• Design and build solutions using microservice architecture, working closely with the product team to understand requirements and impact of changes being made – treating engineering and business as one team.
• Lead delivery by example, delivering solutions at high cadence for the build out of both new functionality and the replacement of legacy systems whilst also supporting other teams to achieve the same.
• Enable better engagement between region, fostering strong collaboration between our engineering teams around the globe.
• Inspire engineering excellence and the development of a strong engineering culture across our teams – influencing behaviours and removing barriers within the teams.

Architectural challenge and design:

• Challenge the engineering and architecture teams to design and build solutions aligned to our Future State Architecture, encouraging proper component reuse and economies of scale.
• Promote and embed AI capabilities across our business, fully understanding processes to enable the better design of automation (whether agentic/AI or traditional automation).
• Promote and embed the adoption of agentic solutions within our SDLC to better enable the delivery and quality of new features to production.

People Leadership

• Build accountability in the team, driving a support first mentality from our engineers.
• Attract, develop and retain diverse technical talent, managing expectations for performance, progression, development and succession.
• Coach regional engineering leads to manage stakeholders and teams more effectively, helping keep them aligned to our delivery principles.

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

•  Extensive experience building applications using non-breaking principles, particularly in developing RESTful APIs.
• Experience leading large, high-performing engineering teams – particularly the development of these teams.
• Strong communication skills, with a particular focus on being able to translate between business and technology.
• Extensive experience developing microservices using highly iterative methods to deliver change to production regularly.  Experience delivering microservices without using frameworks like SpringBoot is a plus.
• Extensive experience working with Java, preferably more recent versions (17 and greater).
• Extensive experience building and managing database schemas using PostgreSQL.
• A keenness to learn new skills and technologies as the role requires.
• Both experience in and a passion to influence global teams of engineers in transforming the engineering mindset and culture amongst the group.
• Experience dissecting business requirements and supporting teams to deliver them iteratively to production at high cadence without large planning cycles.
• Experience building and driving adoption of Agentic SDLC tooling is a plus.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India