Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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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 Specialist.

Business:IWPB Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design and delivery of enterprise-grade AI solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, security and production readiness.
• Design and develop complex AI agent systems, including agent orchestration, state management, tool integration, fault tolerance and workflow recovery.
• Establish reusable AI engineering capabilities and standards to support adoption across multiple business domains.
• Define AI evaluation and observability frameworks covering task accuracy, execution reliability, safety, latency, cost and operational performance.
• Drive data architecture and governance practices, ensuring data quality, consistency, traceability, security and regulatory compliance.
• Optimise AI application performance through model selection, context management, caching, parallel execution and resource efficiency.
• Design controlled AI execution architectures, balancing autonomous capabilities with deterministic workflows, human oversight and auditability.
• Provide technical leadership through architectural decisions, engineering standards, code reviews and mentoring, working closely with business, architecture and platform teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Advanced hands-on Python skills and strong software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, asynchronous programming, concurrency and automated testing.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering complex AI applications in production, including LLMs, RAG, tool calling and agent orchestration using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, API design, event-driven integration and resilient application development.
• Demonstrated experience designing AI evaluation and observability frameworks, including quality assessment, performance monitoring, failure analysis and continuous improvement.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and governance, including data quality management, metadata, data lineage, access controls and regulatory requirements.
• Experience optimising AI application performance, including model selection, context optimisation, caching, latency reduction and cost efficiency.
• Solid understanding of AI security, responsible AI, deterministic execution, human oversight and auditable decision-making.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, containerised deployment, CI/CD, production monitoring, troubleshooting and recovery.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in driving architectural decisions, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers and delivering complex technical solutions.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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.

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