Java Full-Stack Engineering Lead/Senior Associate Director

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

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

In this role, you will:

• Provide technical direction to ensure application build work aligns with our future-state architecture and technology stack

• Lead the evolution of our technology products from an internally hosted monolithic application landscape to a cloud-hosted, API-driven, micro-service, micro-front-end suite of applications

• Provide technical leadership throughout the technology delivery lifecycle, identifying and shaping technology solutions to meet customer needs and move us towards our future-state architecture

• Coach, manage and mentor technical resources across multiple development pods (teams), enhancing their technical capability. Provide guidance and support adopting DevOps principles: CI/CD pipelines, automation, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

• Keep technology expertise up to date in order to influence direction on tooling, technologies and security

• Working closely with Agile leads, Product Owner, Technical Leads, Data analysts, QA engineers, and Business Analysts throughout the project lifecycle.

• Performing & Leading Deployments to various environments using DevOps tools /CICD Pipelines.

• Technical Leadership skills to guide & mentor junior developers

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following 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 desirable)

• Microservice Architecture & development with SOLID design principles. Scripting capability in Bash/Shell and Python for automation and operational tasks.

• Strong experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, AliCloud). Strong database experience (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery) with excellent SQL/PLSQL skills. Containerisation and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes/GKE)