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

Business:Group Functions - Enterprise Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Set technical direction to ensure engineering delivery aligns with target architecture, standards, and technology stack
• Lead the modernisation journey from monolith to cloud-native microservices and micro front-ends
• Provide technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle: solution design, build, test, release, and production support
• Coach and mentor engineers across multiple pods (teams), raising capability and engineering quality
• Drive DevOps adoption: CI/CD, automation, and continuous improvement practices
• Stay current on tooling, cloud, and security to influence engineering decisions and reduce risk
• Partner with Agile leads, Product Owner, Technical Leads, Data Analysts, QA Engineers, and Business Analysts throughout delivery
• Lead and perform deployments across environments using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and SQL/PL/SQL
• Front-end experience with React and/or Angular (micro front-end experience is a plus)
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and SOLID design principles
• Scripting skills in Bash/Shell and Python for automation and operational tasks
• Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, AliCloud)
• Strong database experience (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery) with excellent SQL skills
• Containerisation and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (including GKE where relevant)
• Security knowledge: IAM, roles/service accounts, entitlements, code and container scanning
• Strong CI/CD pipeline experience and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus, Maven, GitHub
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven messaging technologies
• Strong architecture and design capability
• Agile delivery experience and tooling: Scrum, Jira, Confluence
• Exposure to service management and production support (incident/change/problem management)
• Awareness of agentic/AI-assisted engineering practices
• Experience delivering in large-scale IT programmes, ideally within banking and/or financial crime risk domains

Youll 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 Xian Branch***