Associate Director GCP Data Engineer/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 GCP Data Engineering /Associate Director. The GPS Cards team is key to Commercial Cards Banking, being responsible for a range of existing and future propositions in the credit card and associated space.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will:

• Guides engineers/teams through complexity and raises engineering standards through day-to-day actions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a continuous improvement mindset; willing to learn the best tool/language for the problem.
• Modern delivery and operations experience: end-to-end ownership, continuous delivery/DevOps practices, and use of operational metrics (e.g., DORA).
• Broad engineering exposure across platform/infrastructure/function-as-a-service, plus agile values-based delivery.
• AI/ML technology evolution focus: stays current on applied Artificial Intelligence (including Generative AI) and identifies practical opportunities to embed AI into data and engineering workflows (e.g., intelligent automation, improved observability, developer productivity), while maintaining engineering quality
• Own end-to-end delivery of data pipelines and curated data products with clear SLAs.
• Set best practices for data modeling, quality, lineage, observability, CI/CD, and release governance.
• Drive cloud cost optimization, platform reliability, and incident response excellence.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, privacy, and audit requirements.

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

• 15+ years in data engineering, including 6+ years in people and delivery leadership.
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT, data warehousing/lakehouse design, and orchestration frameworks (for example Cloud Composer).
• Proven expertise in Data Engineering (Python, Dataflow, Cloud Run,Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Kafka, RDBMS), Cloud SQL,
• Strong Experience on GCP console, BQ/GCS, Jenkins, Airflow, Pub/Sub/Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, Devops tools – Jenkins/Github.
• Good understanding of Agentic AI frameworks.
• Strong experience on complex SQL queries.
• Track record of building reliable, secure, and governed enterprise data solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience of Credit Cards domain will be an advantage.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India