Senior Solution Architect / Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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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 Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

In this role, you will: 

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for Payment Post Processing, with a clear view of target state and evolutionary delivery.
• Create high-quality architecture documentation including options, trade-offs, and recommendations that stand up to scrutiny.
• Design cloud-native solutions on GCP and On-Prem to handle high-volume payment data and events.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure designs are practical, secure, resilient and operable.
• Shape integration patterns across payment systems and downstream consumers, using APIs and event-driven approaches where appropriate.
• Influence architecture direction through collaboration with other architects and technology leaders.
• Embed non-functional requirements (performance, availability, observability, security, compliance) into solution designs.
• Promote re-use, standards and good practice across teams to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.

To be successful, you will: 

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect on large-scale, complex technology programmes (payments experience strongly preferred).
• Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow (and related services).
• Strong understanding of modern data platform and distributed system design, including streaming vs batch trade-offs.
• Solid knowledge of payment systems and messaging standards (e.g., ISO 20022; SWIFT/SEPA/CAMT/PAIN/PACS exposure is an advantage).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present clearly, write crisply, and tailor messages to different audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management: able to align and influence senior leaders using evidence-based recommendations.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, balancing strategic future-state intent with delivery reality.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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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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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India