Associate Director, Software Engineering

HSBC
Guangzhou
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Continuous improvement","Engineering excellence","Coaching","Engineering judgment","Learning mindset"]

Lead design reviews and drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and release governance. Set reference architectures and reusable patterns for data ingestion, transformation, and serving on GCP, with end-to-end ownership using modern delivery/DevOps practices and operational metrics (e.g., DORA). Focus on applied AI/ML and Generative AI opportunities while maintaining engineering quality, and coach engineers to raise standards.

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Associate Director, Software Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead design reviews and drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and release governance. Set reference architectures and reusable patterns for data ingestion, transformation, and serving on GCP, with end-to-end ownership using modern delivery/DevOps practices and operational metrics (e.g., DORA). Focus on applied AI/ML and Generative AI opportunities while maintaining engineering quality, and coach engineers to raise standards.
Location: Guangzhou
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead design reviews and make trade-offs across resilience, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
  • •Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and release governance.
  • •Guide engineers/teams through complexity and raise engineering standards through day-to-day actions.
  • •Define reference architectures and reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, and serving on GCP.
  • •Focus on applied AI/ML evolution by identifying practical opportunities to embed AI into data and engineering workflows while maintaining engineering quality.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in relevant technologies, including Data Engineering and cloud platforms.
  • •Hands-on data engineering across Python, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Hadoop, NiFi/Kafka, and RDBMS with Cloud SQL.
  • •Strong GCP understanding (GCP console, BigQuery/Cloud Storage, Git) plus Jenkins, Airflow, and CI/CD.
  • •Practical experience with Vertex AI (preferred) or equivalent managed LLM services, including deploying/consuming endpoints.
  • •Delivered LLM-enabled capabilities (e.g., RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector indexing, or LLM evaluation telemetry) with measurable improvements in reliability, latency, and data quality.
Experience:Data engineeringCloudAI/MLGenerative AI
Skills:Continuous improvementEngineering excellenceCoachingEngineering judgmentLearning mindset
Certifications:GCP Professional Data EngineerGCP Cloud Architect
Tech Stack:PythonDataflowPub/SubBigQueryHadoopNiFiKafkaRDBMSCloud SQLGCPGCSGitJenkinsAirflowCI/CDDevOpsVertex AIManaged LLM servicesLLMGenerative AI

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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