Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

Principal responsibilities

• Improve the technical practices amongst the teams
• Improve agile development practices amongst the teams
• Manage the various shared services pods in Guangzhou
• Ensure department Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are met
• Work with the local teams to foster global collaboration
• Ensure technical standards and principals are adhered to during software development
• Ensuring an open diverse environment for the teams to build software
• Mentor and provide guidance to the teams for building technical competent solutions.
• Managing staff based on objectives and behaviour standards
• Leading & inspiring the team to achieve and exceed their goals
• Talent identification and management
• Identification and assessment of risk
• Financial control and P&L management to meet targets
• Stakeholder management
• Managing third party vendors
• Ensure best DevOps practices are adhered to
• Foster innovation amongst the teams

Below are details for different areas

Financial:

• Work with the pods to ensure delivery is agree
• Manage team delivery to an agreed budget, based on agile principals
• Work closely with Technical Product Manager to plan the growth of the teams

Customer:

• Initiate, develop, and maintain relationships with various business and internal IT partners.
• Build trust and confidence with the stakeholders through quality deliverables.

Process:

• Review and drive improvements in policies, practices and procedures on an ongoing basis with the view to creating an environment of continuous improvement.
• Work with the business and transformation teams to ensure resource planning and budgets are met

People:

• Establish a high performance culture by leading through example, underpinned by creating an environment for teams to be successful.
• Performance Management against objectives and behaviours standards in the teams
• Development and Career Planning of teams
• Resource management – includes recruitment activities and contract management to provide optimal delivery within budget.
• Identify and manage any key person risks

Risk/compliance/behaviours:

• Ensure decisions are based on commercial acumen and risk.
• Align and comply with appropriate process, policies and procedures.

Qualification & Requirements

• Qualification in Information Technology
• Experience in Software Development
• Experience managing development teams.
• Proven experience in financial planning and management including budgeting for the team with different business units.
• Demonstrated success using Agile software development methods and practices
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Experience and passion for people development
• Ability to manage multiple challenging stakeholders globally with conflicting priorities.
• A focus on the basic tenets of sound technical design and a desire to embed architectural rigour in the teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluent English speaker

Desired experience:

• Knowledge of Financial Risk management in banking or financial industry
• Knowledge specific to the Traded Risk domain.
• Knowledge of new and emerging technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI etc.
• Knowledge of HSBC policies, processes and procedures is an advantage
• Essential technical skills/certs
• Java, Unix Scripting
• Databases (Relational Databases and NoSQL Databases)
• Observability tools
• Agile Methods and Practices
• Experience in a cloud environment (ideally GCP)

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Additional skills/certs (as advantage)
• FRM or CFA certified
• Micro Service Technologies
• Python
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Benefits

• Insurance, Health & Wellness
• Financial & Retirement
• Family & Parenting
• Vacation & Time Off
• Professional Support
• Other Perks & Benefits…