Backend Engineering Lead, Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

HSBC Holdings plc; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Software Development India is seeking a Sr. Associate Director of Software Engineering to lead distributed systems and data-intensive applications.

You will own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, define modernization roadmaps, and establish API design, event-driven integration, and CI/CD standards. Expect strong Java/Spring Boot expertise and cloud-native delivery on GCP.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on Java with Spring Boot and REST/service design.
• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions on GCP or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for data pipelines and microservices.
• Define modernization roadmaps: re-platforming, refactor, microservices.
• Establish API design, event-driven integration, testing strategy, CI/CD.
• Lead debt reduction with measurable outcomes and prioritization.
• Architect and build core services using Java 8+, Spring Boot, JPA, PostgreSQL.
• Guide real-time processing using Apache Flink/Beam where suitable.
• Perform code reviews, debugging, performance tuning and incident resolution.
• Build automation and tooling with Python where needed.
• Drive delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery/ClickHouse, GKE.
• Ensure operational excellence: monitoring, capacity planning, cost optimization.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

JPA/Hibernate

Microservices

Kubernetes

GCP

SQL tuning

Data streaming

Tools

GKE

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Stackdriver

Apache Flink

Apache Beam

Job description

Role - Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, lineage and security controls across pipelines and downstream consumption.
• Coach and mentor engineers across levels; build a culture of craftsmanship, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders - translating business outcomes into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and delivery impediments with clear mitigation and escalation paths.
• 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).
• Strong troubleshooting ability across applications, data, infrastructure and performance layers.
• 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.
• MongoDB and polyglot persistence experience.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by - HSBC Software Development India