Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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

Business:Group Functions Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Tech leadership & delivery ownership: Lead end-to-end engineering delivery for big data ETL and scoring pipelines, from design through build, testing, release, and operational support.
• Architect scalable solutions on GCP: Design and evolve cloud-native architectures using GCP services (e.g., Dataproc/Spark, GCS, CloudSQL, GKE, VMs) aligned to non-functional requirements.
• Build high-performance data pipelines: Develop and optimise Spark/Scala jobs for large-scale batch processing, data quality controls, enrichment, and feature/scoring outputs.
• Integrate with Quantexa: Drive effective integration patterns and engineering standards around the Quantexa platform, ensuring robust data ingestion, entity resolution/analytics workflows, and downstream consumption.
• Search & investigative enablement: Design and implement efficient indexing/retrieval patterns using Elastic Search to support investigative and analytical use cases.
• Raise engineering standards: Establish best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, reliability, and cost/performance optimisation; mentor engineers and conduct technical reviews.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on big data engineering background, with proven experience building production-grade ETL pipelines and data platforms at scale.
• Advanced Spark + Scala experience (performance tuning, partitioning strategies, handling skew, optimising job execution, production support).
• Strong GCP experience designing and running data workloads (e.g., Dataproc, GCS, CloudSQL, GKE/containers, IAM/security basics, networking considerations).
• Technical leadership experience (solution design ownership, estimation/planning, guiding teams through delivery, mentoring, setting standards and direction).
• Solid engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, data modelling, batch processing patterns, fault tolerance, testing and CI/CD discipline.
• Stakeholder and communication strength: able to translate complex technical topics to non-technical partners, navigate a complex organisation, and drive outcomes across teams.

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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