Backend Engineering lead/Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

HSBC Holdings; Pune District; Sur place; INR 3 800 000 - 6 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

HSBC Software Development India is seeking an experienced Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist to own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices.

You will drive modernization roadmaps, define engineering standards, and lead core services using Java/Spring Boot in a cloud-native environment. You will partner with global engineering teams, ensure reliability, observability, and security, and mentor senior engineers while shaping strategic

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on Java with Spring Boot and REST/event-driven services.
• Experience in cloud-native architectures, GCP preferred.
• Proven ability to lead architecture decisions and mentor engineers.
• Excellent communication with global teams.

Responsabilités

• Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, covering resilience, scalability, latency, observability, security.
• Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform, refactor, microservices decomposition).
• Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing strategy, CI/CD and operational readiness.
• Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, PostgreSQL, and event streaming patterns.
• Partner with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), using Python where needed.
• Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery/ClickHouse, and GKE.
• Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.

Connaissances

Java

Spring Boot

REST / Event-driven

JPA / Hibernate

SQL performance

Distributed systems

Cloud: GCP

Kubernetes / GKE

CI/CD pipelines

Observability (Prometheus Grafana)

Cloud security

Frontend: React/TypeScript

Outils

GKE

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Grafana

Description du poste

Some careers shine brighter than others. 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 Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, covering non-functional requirements (resilience, scalability, latency, observability, security).
• Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform, refactor, microservices decomposition), ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
• Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing strategy, CI/CD and operational readiness.Manage technical debt with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.
• Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ), and event streaming patterns.Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
• Partners with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), leveraging Python where needed.
• Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse), and GKE.
• Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 15+ years in software engineering, including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Strong hands-on Java experience (recent and demonstrable) with Spring Boot, REST/event-driven services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), and SQL performance tuning.
• Proven system design skills: microservices patterns, async messaging, idempotency, consistency models, caching, rate limiting, and failure handling.
• Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably GCP (or equivalent cloud with ability to translate).
• Clear communicator; able to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.
• Kubernetes and deployment tooling: GKE, Helm, CI/CD pipelines.Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver/Cloud Monitoring, distributed tracing.
• Security practices in cloud/Kubernetes: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, secure SDLC.
• Front-end exposure (helpful, not essential): React, TypeScript.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India