Software Engineering Specialist / Associate Director

Lead the strategic planning, execution, and delivery of multiple projects and programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and client expectations. Drive end-to-end program governance, including planning, execution, tracking, and risk management for large-scale Java/ Python/ Cloud based projects. Drive continuous innovation, process improvements, and digital transformation initiatives. Oversee the design and architecture. Manage and mentor cross-functional teams, ensuring high performance, collaboration, and alignment with agile methodologies. Ensure on-time delivery of user stories within sprints while maintaining high code quality, security standards, and minimal defects. Work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and senior leadership to define roadmaps, resource planning, and execution strategies. Champion DevOps/MLOPS best practices, CI/CD implementation, and automation for improved software development lifecycle (SDLC). Optimize cost, scalability, and performance of applications, ensuring robust cloud-native architecture. Establish and enforce security, compliance, and coding best practices for large-scale enterprise applications. Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines. Reviewing and being responsible for code quality, facilitating development, testing support, production support and implementation of End-to-End Integration applications. Flexible to work in shifts and provide on-call support. Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities. Ensure compliance to end to end controls and HSBC standard processes. Be responsible for upskilling and management of pod teams. Requirements 15-18 years of overall hands-on IT experience with mandatory exposure of 4-6 years in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BI tools like Looker. Proven experience in Open-source technologies and expertise in Java/ Python or any mainstream programming language. Experience in CI-CD pipeline build, GITHUB tooling, Shell Scripting, etc Experience in APIs for data sharing and Data Driven Architecture. BigQuery (data modelling, optimization, security); Advanced SQL proficiency with complex data transformation, windowing functions, and analytical querying. Ability to design and develop modular, maintainable SQL models using dbt best practices. Experience in developing Looker dashboards with drill down capabilities and security profiling. Experience in Optimizing Looker performance: materialized views, query tuning, aggregate tables, etc Proven track records in leading Proof-of-concepts (POCs) and best practice implementations for modern data architecture, including data lakes and cloud-native data warehouses. Experience in estimating development efforts and delivery planning. Exposure to Cloud Infra deployments, monitoring and optimizing cloud resources for performance, cost, and scalability using tools like Stackdriver, Prometheus, or Grafana Hands on passionate technologist who is delivering code to production. A broad capability of modern programming languages and the ability to choose the right tool for the job . Expertise in managing large data volumes, ETL and Reporting aspects. Exposure of the Regulatory Reporting functional domain. Experience of managing global teams, located in diverse geographic locations, across timezones. Influences way beyond their own immediate department.