Lead Java Engineer/ Associate Director, Software Engineering

HSBC Holdings plc; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Software Development India is seeking an Associate Director of Software Engineering to lead the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of the Payments Data Platform on Google Cloud. You will shape designs, drive engineering standards and ensure production readiness.

This role combines hands-on oversight with governance, risk control, and stakeholder management, guiding teams to deliver scalable, secure services aligned with business priorities and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience with Java and cloud delivery.
• Deep knowledge of Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience building self-service, observable solutions with IaC and Policy as Code.
• Experience designing event-driven, near real-time data patterns.
• Experience with GCP Dataflow, Bigtable and BigQuery.
• Experience managing large databases and performance optimization.
• Strong Agile delivery experience and production support.
• Proficient in Python and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and end-to-end delivery of Java and GCP engineering solutions for the Payments Data Platform.
• Set solution designs and architecture outcomes by translating business and technical needs into scalable, secure and supportable services.
• Establish engineering standards across development, testing, deployment, observability and operational support.
• Make technology decisions that balance resilience, performance, security, cost and time to market.
• Oversee delivery across construction, testing, release and service management including adoption of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code.
• Govern engineering quality through reviews of technical proposals, designs, code and implementation approaches.
• Maintain operational accountability by ensuring monitoring, alerting, runbooks, recovery procedures and support arrangements are in place before release.
• Coordinate incident response and follow-through by overseeing P1 events, root-cause analysis, remediation and preventative actions.

Skills

Java

GCP

Spring Boot

Infrastructure as Code

Policy as Code

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Observability

Agile

Tools

Dataflow

BigQuery

Bigtable

Job description

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 Associate Director, Software Engineering

The Opportunity

This Associate Director role is accountable for technical direction, engineering quality and end-to-end delivery of automation and data-platform capabilities across the technology lifecycle. You’ll shape the design, development, release, operational support and continuous improvement of services within the GCP Payments Data Platform. The role combines hands‑on technical oversight with delivery governance, engineering standards, stakeholder management, risk control and team capability development. You’ll set direction for scalable, secure and observable solutions that stay aligned to business priorities, architecture principles and regulatory expectations. Success means delivering reliable platform capabilities, raising engineering standards and keeping services healthy in production.

What you'll be doing

• Own the technical strategy and end-to-end delivery of Java and GCP engineering solutions for the Payments Data Platform
• Set solution designs and architecture outcomes by translating business and technical needs into scalable, secure and supportable services
• Establish engineering standards across development, testing, deployment, observability and operational support
• Make technology decisions that balance resilience, performance, security, cost and time to market
• Oversee delivery across construction, testing, release and service management including adoption of CI/CD, automation, Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code
• Govern engineering quality through reviews of technical proposals, designs, code and implementation approaches
• Maintain operational accountability by ensuring monitoring, alerting, runbooks, recovery procedures and support arrangements are in place before release
• Coordinate incident response and follow‑through by overseeing P1 events, root‑cause analysis, remediation and preventative actions

What we're looking for

• Bring significant hands‑on software engineering experience including substantial experience overseeing Java and cloud engineering delivery
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of Java and Spring Boot
• Show experience building fully self‑service, observable solutions using Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code
• Apply proven experience designing and developing event‑driven and near‑real‑time data patterns including ingress and egress flows
• Bring experience with GCP services such as Dataflow, Bigtable and BigQuery
• Demonstrate experience managing large databases including performance optimisation
• Work effectively in Agile delivery and support developed code in production environments when required
• Apply working knowledge of Python and shell scripting

Building the Payments Data Platform

If you want your work to shape how payments data services are engineered, delivered and supported at scale, this role offers the scope to do it. You’ll influence the technical direction of Java and GCP services while strengthening standards for automation, observability and operational readiness. You’ll partner with engineering stakeholders, architects, operations teams and senior management to deliver platform capabilities that stand up in production. If that matches the impact you want to have, we’d like to hear from you.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India