Job description
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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering.
Business: CTO Infrastructure
Principal responsibilities
- Manage direct reports (Role definition, hiring, objective setting, performance reviews, performance ratings)
- Budget planning and managing budgets,
- Management reporting
- Escalation management
- Owner of all key implementation decisions
- Ensure all non-Functional requirements for the platform meet Business needs and BCP requirements
- Ensure the Alibaba Cloud platform meets operational Risk framework to manage business risk
- Ensure all relevant architecture governance, policy, and standards are met
- Own engineering operating model (Agile, Waterfall etc.) and tools (Jira, GSD, Confluence)
- Represent the Alibaba Cloud platform in discussions with internal IT partners and Alibaba
- Maintain and manage all engineering information and knowledge bases for the Alibaba Cloud Platform and key implementation decisions
- Provide Management reporting to ensure data driven discussions for continuous improvement
- Gather requirements and provide continuous feedback loops between customer and Engineering teams
Requirements
The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
- Have worked as an Engineering Lead in an enterprise organization
- Have managed people
- Demonstrable knowledge of Non-Functional Requirements
- Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Containers, Container OS and Container orchestration (E.g. Docker, COS, GKE) Storage, IAM, SDN (VPC and XPN)
- Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing techniques and tools
- An understanding of physical and Software defined Networks
- An understanding of Identity and Access management principles and tools
- An understanding of role-based access controls and organizational hierarchies
- An understanding of Operating systems
- An understanding of container technologies
- Experience in working in a global cross functional service management team
- Experience in dealing with multiple support groups in a supply chain
- Have worked in an enterprise Financial Services company
- Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams
- Thought leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment with Stakeholders to deliver the service.
- Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security, risk and regulatory standards
- A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change
- Set and achieved challenging short-, medium- and long-term goals which exceeded the standards in their field
- 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
- Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same
- A comprehensive understanding of IT and business risk management
- Demonstrable examples of management reporting (Qualitative and quantitative)
- Experience with budget planning and management
Essential Skills
- CSP Certification
- Experience working as an Engineering Lead or relevant equivalent
- People management (Objective setting, Performance review)
- Demonstrable knowledge of Risk Management in an enterprise
- Demonstrable knowledge of Non-Functional requirements
- Experience dealing with IT Audit, Security and Risk
- Experience working in a global team in an enterprise
- Have experience managing stakeholders
- Have excellent written, verbal and presentation skills in both English and Chinese
- Keen problem-solving skills (Analytical and Creative)
What additional skills will be good to have?
- Alibaba Cloud Professional Certifications
- Understanding the technologies and products of other Cloud Providers (eg. GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Technical knowledge (Directory Services, Alibaba Cloud Identity, Physical Networking, Firewalls, SDN, XPN, Billing, Operating Systems, Containers, GCP Resource Hierarchy)
- Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services
- Understanding of generative AI technology, including the use of various large language models (LLMs) and Agentic AI, along with practical knowledge of use cases and implementation approaches.
Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.
HSBCLL/GZ*
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