Associate Director, Software Engineering

Pune, MH, IN, 411006

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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

Your responsibilities will include:

Lead a variety of different initiatives with a global team of Engineers.

Work closely with the stakeholders to ensure governance, project delivery and Architecture requirements are met.

Work across one or more DevOps ‘pods’ as the Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Help to drive the Kubernetes platform forward to keep up with growing business demand.

Build and manage Cloud environments to enable application deployments.

Lead the engineering of solutions using Infrastructure As Code methods

Ensure Operational and compliance activities are undertaken, and remediation actions planned for services.

Provide quality assurance for engineering delivery and ensure best practice is followed throughout development and operations.

Support continuous improvement processes and contribute to engineering best practice working with other Infrastructure Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineers

Making sure the platform is highly available at all times.

The ideal candidate for this role will have some of the below experience/qualifications :

Understand the complexities of moving to the cloud and how to overcome them and build at scale

Advanced Kubernetes and Cloud knowledge (AWS)

Familiarisation of how to run large scale platforms from build, test, deploy, monitor, and alerting.

Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Cloud Services, Application DevOps, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams.

Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively with DevOps Application ‘pods’ to provide the digital Cloud capability/skills required to deliver the service.

Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards.

Experience of operating in a highly regulated industry (e.g. financial services)

Experience of working in an Agile Scrum & DevOps environment including knowledge of scrum management tools (e.g. Jira)

Demonstrable technical experience of (we don’t expect it to be all):

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ISTIO or other service meshes.

HELM

Large variety of AWS services

Python

Kong or other API gateway technologies

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring services

Jira / Confluence

Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.

Build effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same.

A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilising appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.

A track record of effectively handling complex technology, to meet the needs of demanding customers, in a fair and ethical way

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India