Practice - Engineering lead/Associate Director, Software Engineering

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re 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 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:

• Lead the identification of SDLC bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and friction points across teams, and drive practical improvement initiatives to address them.
• Partner with Engineering, Platform, and Risk and Control stakeholders to improve delivery flow, change quality, stability, resiliency, and operational effectiveness.
• Define and drive the adoption of DORA, SPACE, and broader engineering metrics to create visibility, support prioritisation, and improve performance outcomes.
• Establish and maintain automated reporting to provide clear views of current performance, root-cause analysis, trends, and recommended actions.
• Lead engineering and operational automation initiatives across areas such as testing, deployment, patching, recovery, and health checks.
• Create and maintain a central engineering knowledge space and operating cadence to support governance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Influence stakeholders across a matrix environment to align on priorities, remove blockers, and sustain delivery momentum.

 To be successful, you will 

• Have 12+ years of engineering experience across the full software delivery lifecycle, with strong engineering leadership capability with hands on experience in coding.
• Have the ability to run proof of concepts across different tools, practices, and engineering solutions to assess applicability, value, and fit against current team capability and intake.
• Bring proven experience across engineering excellence, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or software delivery improvement roles.
• Demonstrate strong ability to identify SDLC bottlenecks, prioritise improvement opportunities, and convert insight into practical cross-team action.
• Have strong understanding of DORA metrics and good knowledge of SPACE or broader engineering productivity and developer experience measures.
• Possess solid knowledge of software development, testing, release management, incident management, service recovery, and operational resilience practices.
• Bring experience leading automation initiatives across testing, deployment, patching, recovery, and operational health checks.
• Bring an AI-driven mindset, with the ability to identify practical opportunities to use AI to improve engineering efficiency, analysis, decision-making, and delivery effectiveness.
• Possess excellent analytical, communication, problem-solving, and delivery leadership skills.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

www.hsbc.com/careers

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Issued by – HSBC Software Development India