GenAI LLM PythonSr. Associate Director, Software Engineering
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Job Summary
Some careers shine brighter than others.
If youre 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.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director Software Engineering
In this role you will:
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define build and implement a Generative AI Agent platform supporting priority banking services from discovery through production rollout.
- Architect enterprise-grade platform capabilities including agent orchestration (supervisors/super agents) workflow design tool/function integration memory and state management skill registry/management and reusable patterns that enable consistent delivery across teams.
- Drive platform adoption at scale by creating reference implementations onboarding pathways developer enablement (APIs/SDKs templates documentation) and governance that accelerates safe repeatable delivery of agent solutions.
- Own platform performance management: define success metrics and SLOs implement observability (logs/metrics/traces) run evaluations and continuously tune reliability accuracy latency and cost to optimise outcomes.
- Oversee end-to-end delivery execution proactively managing scope risks dependencies and milestones; coordinate across teams to remove blockers and ensure timely high-quality outcomes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership translating technical options into clear recommendations trade-offs (value/risk/cost) and delivery plans to support informed decision-making.
- Stay current on GenAI/agent advancements (including LangChain/LangGraph and emerging alternatives) assess applicability to HSBC use cases and drive pragmatic upgrades that keep the platform secure compliant and competitive.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements
- Education & English: Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science/Engineering (or related); strong communication skills including verbal communication in English.
- Software Engineering: 5 years handon coding practice strong Python or Java or Golang with usage of at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP); ability to deploy and operate services in production (Docker/Kubernetes preferred).
- GenAI / LLM Delivery: 2 years building and shipping LLM/GenAI applications; Proven practices with agentic workflows multi-agents and tool/function calling and RAG search and vector databases design & develop agent tooling and integration patterns (e.g. MCP and tool/function calling)
- Problem-solving & commitment strong ability to develop creative solutions to complex challenges working effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrates an AI-native mindset by applying AI-driven approaches including coding assistants to improve productivity quality and engineering best practices.
Youll achieve more when you join HSBC.
Issued by HSBC Software Development India.
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About Company
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It was the 7th largest bank in the world by 2018, and the largest in Europe, with total assets of US$2.558 trillion.
