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 a Associate Director, Software EngineeringIn this role, you will:Work closely with business stakeholders, Product owners, change owners, Delivery Managers, Technical Pod Leads, Engineers and other platform architects to define detailed blue-print designs (current v interim v target) to direct / aid / enable the delivery of fit-for-purpose solutions.Providing solution consultancy / support (as required) to projects and teams.Accountable for ensuring the products, platform services are supported by the right architectures and solutions to meet the product owner needsWork with developers, analysts global project managers to determine the size, scope, impact, estimates and risks for milestones to be delivered across pods.Demonstrate accountability with end-to-end ownership of global business deliverables, including production stability, ensuring successful deliveries according to agreed requirements, timescales and budgets.Hands-on SDLC participation from reviewing requirements to reslease and post go-live support.Ensuring that architecture blueprints (current v interim v target) are kept up to date and continually remain a key reference point for delivery implementationEnsuring that central HSBC Group, CTO, CIB architecture principles are flowed down to delivery designs and any shortfalls are flagged up and continually reviewed (with the aim of addressing any dis-alignment to principles asap)Chairing regular Design Authority forums to enable key design decisions (and compromises) to be made transparently and in a structured wayHighlighting to leadership product owner of design compromises i.e. where architecture principles or target strategic designs cannot be met in the required timeframes. Maintaining a log of design compromises (and placing these on the product backlog) and being the champion of driving for compromises to be addressed (e.g. via Technical Debt / Industrialisation stream of work) when time / priorities / budget permit.Involvement in all key technical design discussions - to ensure architecture design decisions are made in line with blue-prints and general architecture direction (and that compromises are subsequently logged and addressed in future)Involvement in all 'clear choices' and decisions related to internal or 3rd party (externally sourced) components / products / servicesDesign a plan for stability, scalability, performance optimization, and ongoing improvement.Provision of regular communication to team of architecture direction and key design choices / factorsResponsible for ensuring solutions are aligned with the platform architecture and roadmap, group standards and policies and the overall enterprise architecture for their functionHelp development manager program managers in recruiting right talent and maturing engineering pod to be self-sufficient.Be aware of the operational risk scenarios associated with your role and raise them in a timely manner, including potential solutions to mitigate the same.