Associate Director, Software Engineering

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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

In this role, you will:

• Work on solution design for Domestic Real Time & ACH payments and Digital Merchant Acquiring

• As a senior resource you are expected to deliver suitable artefacts like Component Integration design, migration, and propose new design patterns.

• Design Governance is key facet of the role, and it’s expected to demonstrate strong oversight and governance over design proposed by colleagues and other members. Challenge wherever appropriate

• Experience in redesigning existing applications with minimal code changes to make it more resilient and available

• Design expertise with major focus on Non-Functional Requirements i.e., higher TPS, security, data encryption etc.

• Experience in various types of infrastructure component sizing with long term view which is aligned to business requirements is highly preferred

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements: (MAX 8 Points)

• 15+ years of IT experience, preferably as Solution Designer for last 3+ years.

• Should have strong domain of Transactional Domain (Payments, Insurances, Cards) and simultaneously have excellent technical knowhow on the latest of Cloud based / Microservices based solutions.

• Exposure to API Security with production class systems with Customer facing/ Internal systems API comms etc.

• Should have good knowledge of building resilient, scalable and secure architecture which are performant micro services.

• Should be technical expert with different integration protocols SFTP, Connect Direct, TCP Sockets, HTTP REST API. Strong Kafka experience is mandatory.

• Experience in Service design and Service orchestration using Microservices.

• Ability to clearly articulate various design options, create options paper and present it to various stakeholders.

• You are expected to be innovative in your solutions as it’s not always possible to deliver the target state in first iteration. Hence Innovative ways to deliver solution that are aligned to strategy is one of the key responsibilities.

• You are expected to explain your thought process and seek consensus for various architecture proposals from wide range of Senior and Junior stakeholders.

• You will be one of the accountable team members to ensure that Systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and security of the proposed solution.

• You need to be able to adopt and champion all expected Architecture controls with different stakeholders like Project Managers, Infrastructure SME and Security experts.

• Very strong Customer centricity in design, ease of operations use, reduction in manual efforts is some of the design principles expected to be led, advocated and implemented by the candidate.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India