Senior Engineering Lead ( Java /Microservices / GCP)/Sr Associate director

HSBC; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 8,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Software Development India seeks a Senior Associate Director of Engineering to lead the design and delivery of cloud-native data platforms and microservices. You will set technical direction, modernize legacy estates, and stay close to the code in Java/Spring Boot and distributed systems.

The role combines hands-on delivery with people leadership, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with senior stakeholders to align architecture with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, including significant experience delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Strong hands-on Java experience (recent) 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.

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.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

GCP

Leadership

REST APIs

JPA / Hibernate

SQL tuning

Python scripting

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

GKE

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Airflow

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Grafana

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 organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

Job Description — Senior Associate Director, Engineering (GCB4)

Profile focus:

Strong technology leader with proven system design capability and hands-on Java engineering experience.

Role purpose

Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of resilient, cloud-native data platforms and microservices. You’ll set technical direction, modernize legacy estates, and stay close enough to the code to unblock teams and raise engineering quality—especially in Java/Spring Boot and distributed system design.

Key Responsibilities

Technical leadership & architecture

• 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.

Hands-on delivery (Java-centric)

• 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.

Cloud, data & platform engineering (GCP)

• 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.

People leadership & stakeholder management

• 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.

Required Skills & Experience

• 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.

Desirable / nice to have

• 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.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India