Associate Director, Tech SME

HSBC
Guangzhou
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Communication","Mentoring","Risk mitigation","Technical documentation/decision recording"]

Lead solution and architecture for HSBC Private Banking CRM and connected ecosystems, defining target and transitional architectures, roadmaps, and standards. Own end-to-end solution design for new initiatives (including integration contracts, data flows, and non-functional requirements), govern APIs and event/data modeling, and provide architectural oversight for Power Platform (Dataverse, connectors, ALM). Partner with engineering, product, data, security, and compliance, and drive risk mitigation, design reviews, and operational readiness.

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Associate Director, Tech SME

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Job Summary

Lead solution and architecture for HSBC Private Banking CRM and connected ecosystems, defining target and transitional architectures, roadmaps, and standards. Own end-to-end solution design for new initiatives (including integration contracts, data flows, and non-functional requirements), govern APIs and event/data modeling, and provide architectural oversight for Power Platform (Dataverse, connectors, ALM). Partner with engineering, product, data, security, and compliance, and drive risk mitigation, design reviews, and operational readiness.
Location: Guangzhou
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define target and transitional architectures and produce architectural roadmaps and evolution plans aligned to business outcomes and regulatory mandates.
  • •Lead end-to-end solution architecture for new initiatives, including context, decomposition, integration contracts, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
  • •Establish and enforce architecture standards (API versioning, event & data modeling, security patterns, resilience, observability) and run design reviews.
  • •Define integration patterns and oversee the API portfolio lifecycle, including classification, reuse, deprecation, performance, and security posture.
  • •Provide Power Platform architectural oversight and governance for environments, solution segmentation, Dataverse models, connector design, and ALM alignment, ensuring secure scalable low-code integrations.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • •8+ years progressive experience in solution/software architecture in regulated financial services, with prior hands-on engineering background (Java/API).
  • •Strong expertise in API and integration architecture, including REST, event-driven, messaging, and microservices patterns with contract design.
  • •Practical Power Platform architectural governance (Dataverse modeling, custom connectors, environment & ALM strategy).
  • •Proficiency in cloud architecture (Azure preferred; AWS beneficial), security patterns, and container/microservices concepts (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience:8+ yearsRegulated financial servicesSolution architectureSoftware architectureAPI integrationPower Platform
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Skills:Stakeholder managementCommunicationMentoringRisk mitigationTechnical documentation/decision recording
Certifications:TOGAFCloud (Azure)SecurityPower PlatformJava
Tech Stack:JavaPower PlatformDataverseRESTEvent-drivenMessagingMicroservicesAPI versioningSecurity patternsAzureAWSDockerKubernetesUMLC4Sequence/data flow diagramsObservabilityThreat modeling

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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