Java,,Architectural PatternsSenior 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 Senior Associate Director Software Engineering.

In this role you will:

• Own solution design for complex Java services/platforms covering domain boundaries APIs integration patterns and non-functional requirements (security resilience performance).
• Set and drive engineering standards across squads (OpenAPI-first design API versioning/backward compatibility idempotency error models secure-by-design).
• Lead event-driven engineering using Kafka including topic strategy schema evolution retries/backoff DLQ patterns and reliability trade-offs.
• Define and embed quality strategy at scale (test pyramid integration testing Testcontainers contract testing such as Pact/Spring Cloud Contract) into CI.
• Strengthen CI/CD and DevSecOps controls (quality gates dependency/security scanning secrets detection release governance production readiness).
• Champion production excellence through observability (logs/metrics/traces) incident response and RCA preventative engineering and operational runbooks.
• Guide PostgreSQL design and performance (schema/indexing query optimisation transactions/isolation levels and migrations using Flyway/Liquibase).
• Enable responsible AI-assisted engineering and agentic delivery by defining guardrails and ensuring evaluation and monitoring are built-in.

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

• 1215 years experience building and owning production-grade systems with proven hands-on technical leadership as an individual contributor across teams.
• Strong Java backend engineering (Java 11/17 Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Data JPA/Hibernate transaction management; understanding of Spring Security concepts).
• Strong REST API design skills (OpenAPI/Swagger versioning backward compatibility idempotency error modelling).
• Solid architecture/design capability (SOLID GoF patterns refactoring clean/hexagonal architecture pragmatic domain-driven design).
• Hands-on Kafka/event-driven expertise (producers/consumers consumer groups partitioning/ordering schema evolution retries/backoff DLQ idempotent consumers; familiarity with Avro/Protobuf schema registry approaches).
• Strong testing and quality engineering (JUnit 5 Mockito Spring Boot Test Testcontainers; contract testing with Pact/Spring Cloud Contract; breaking-change management).
• CI/CD runtime and operability skills (pipelines with quality gates artefact/versioning discipline Docker; collaboration with Kubernetes/OpenShift teams; structured logging metrics and distributed tracing; incident response/RCA).
• Responsible AI engineering know-how (AI developer tooling usage with human review governance/guardrails evaluation and regression testing monitoring/telemetry and ensuring AI-assisted changes meet SDLC controls and security standards).

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