Job Description

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

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

Business: IWPB Technology

Job ID：59333

Principal responsibilities

• Lead Technical Direction & Trading Architecture: Own the technical vision, architectural roadmap, and execution strategy for Core OMS, EMS and multi-couterparties connectivity, in close partnership with Product Owners, Market Operations, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Hands-on Technical Leadership: Lead by example through hands-on system design, low-latency coding, rigorous code reviews, different protocols integration, performance profiling, and troubleshooting complex production issues.
• Scalable & Resilient Trading Systems: Design and deliver high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and zero-loss microservices, event-driven messaging, caching layers, pre-trade risk controls, and automated reconciliation engines.
• AI & Agentic SDLC Transformation: Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows across requirements decomposition, automated test generation (contract testing), code generation, automated code reviews, and release readiness.
• Engineering Standards & Guardrails: Establish best-in-class engineering standards covering automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, observability (Geneos, AppDynamics, Splunk), and automated pre-trade risk/compliance guardrails.
• End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Drive execution from concept to production rollout, managing technical debt, architectural runway, dependencies, and regulatory commitments across multi-region deployments.
• People & Culture Development: Coach, mentor, and grow software engineers; cultivate an engineering culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, ownership, and innovation.

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications

• Deep Hands-on Engineering Expertise: Substantial experience designing, building, and operating high-volume, low-latency, mission-critical distributed systems using modern Java, Spring Boot or Python
• Capital Markets & Trading Domain Knowledge: Proven understanding of order management lifecycles, Smart Order Routing, market data processing, pre-trade risk controls, and post-trade reconciliation.
• Proven Technical Leadership: Demonstrated track record of setting technical direction, leading complex multi-tier system deliveries, and guiding distributed engineering teams within global organizations.
• Distributed & Event-Driven Systems:Deep practical experience with event-driven architecture (Apache Kafka / JMS), caching strategies (Redis), relational databases (PostgreSQL / Oracle), resilient API designs (REST / gRPC), and distributed transaction management.
• AI-Enabled Engineering & Emerging Tech Practical experience leveraging AI-enabled development tools and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AWS Bedrock, LLM tooling, automated test generation) to measurably boost SDLC efficiency, quality, and velocity.
• Resilience, Concurrency & High Availability: Strong expertise in designing for fault tolerance, failover/contingency patterns, idempotency, rate-limiting, circuit breaking, and sub-millisecond/low-latency optimization.
• Stakeholder Influence & Communication: Ability to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into incremental technical milestones and articulate technical trade-offs to senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Communication: Excellent written and spoken English.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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