Job Description

Some careers have more impact than others.

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 Sr. Associate Director, Management.

Business: AI MS

Req ID: 48529

Location: Guangzhou TKH

Principal responsibilities

• Lead end to end delivery of strategic AI enabled solutions from business discovery and architecture definition through implementation, production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to understand complex operational workflows, identify high value AI opportunities, define success metrics, and shape practical delivery roadmaps.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable solution architectures covering application design, AI / LLM integration, data flows, security controls, deployment models, observability, and operational support.
• Provide technical leadership for LLM powered features, RAG based knowledge solutions, agentic workflows, automation platforms, APIs, workflow tools, and user facing enterprise applications.
• Make and communicate architecture trade offs across scope, speed, cost, resilience, security, compliance, model quality, latency, maintainability, and user experience.
• Guide engineering teams in building production grade software using technologies such as Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Java, backend services, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, containers, and modern web or integration frameworks.
• Define engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, performance tuning, incident response, production readiness, and maintainable AI application delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, data scientists, enterprise architects, cyber security, risk, compliance, platform engineering, and operations teams to ensure solutions are safe, scalable, and enterprise ready.
• Mentor junior and mid level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, problem solving support, and delivery best practice sharing.
• Act as a senior technical thought partner for business and technology leadership, explaining AI capabilities, constraints, risks, architecture decisions, and responsible adoption patterns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Around 15+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, full stack engineering, AI engineering, technology consulting, or related technical delivery roles.
• Strong hands on engineering background with proven ability to design, build, review, debug, and productionize complex enterprise systems.
• Deep programming capability in Python and strong experience with at least one additional enterprise development language or ecosystem such as JavaScript / TypeScript, Java, C#, Go, or similar.
• Proven track record of delivering production systems in complex enterprise environments, including backend services, APIs, data integrations, web applications, automation platforms, cloud native services, or workflow solutions.
• Practical understanding of AI / ML and LLM application architectures, including RAG, embeddings, prompt orchestration, model APIs, evaluation, guardrails, model monitoring, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of architecture and engineering practices including distributed systems, microservices, integration patterns, data design, security, observability, CI/CD, performance, resilience, and operational support.
• Experience leading cross functional delivery across product, engineering, data, platform, security, risk, compliance, operations, and business stakeholder groups.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics to senior non technical stakeholders and align teams around delivery decisions.
• Strong ownership mindset, senior judgment, and willingness to stay hands on in code, design, troubleshooting, production readiness, and technical problem solving.

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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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***