Sr. Associate Director, Delivery Management Specialist

HSBC; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC in India, Maharashtra, seeks an experienced Sr. Associate Director, Delivery Management Specialist to drive design reviews, architectural direction, and end-to-end delivery across resilience, performance, and cost.

You will champion modern delivery on GCP, oversee CI/CD, automated testing, and governance, and lead by example to raise engineering standards while embedding AI-enabled improvements in data workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with data engineering and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, BigQuery and GCP services.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Airflow and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design reviews; make clear trade-offs across resilience, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
• Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and release governance.
• Guide engineers through complexity and raise engineering standards through day-to-day actions.
• Define reference architectures for ingestion, transformation, and serving on GCP.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery with DevOps practices and observable metrics.
• Promote AI/ML integration to enhance data workflows while preserving quality.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

BigQuery

GCP

Airflow

CI/CD

Vertex AI

Distributed systems

Tools

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Jenkins

Git

Hadoop

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 Sr. Associate Director, Delivery Management Specialist

In This Role, You Will

• Lead design reviews; make clear trade-offs across resilience, performance, cost, and time-to-market.
• Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, and release governance.
• Leads by doing (not managing): guides engineers/teams through complexity and raises engineering standards through day-to-day actions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a continuous improvement mindset; willing to learn the best tool/language for the problem.
• Define reference architectures and reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, and serving on GCP.
• Modern delivery and operations experience: end-to-end ownership, continuous delivery/DevOps practices, and use of operational metrics (e.g., DORA).
• Broad engineering exposure across platform/infrastructure/function-as-a-service, plus agile values-based delivery.
• AI/ML technology evolution focus: stays current on applied Artificial Intelligence (including Generative AI) and identifies practical opportunities to embed AI into data and engineering workflows (e.g., intelligent automation, improved observability, developer productivity), while maintaining engineering quality.

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

• 10+ years of experience in relevant technologies.
• Data Engineering (Python, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Hadoop, NiFi/Kafka, RDBMS), Cloud SQL,
• Good understanding on GCP console, BQ/GCS/Git, Jenkins, Airflow, Pub/Sub/Kafka, CI/CD
• Practical experience with Vertex AI (preferred) or equivalent managed LLM services, including deploying/consuming endpoints

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC

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Issued by – HSDI