Associate Director, Software Engineering at SAP

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Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: Jul 31, 2026

Summary from listing

HSBC is hiring an Associate Director, Software Engineering for its CTO Data Technology business. The role leads design reviews, engineering excellence, reference architectures, CI/CD, automated testing, release governance, and engineering culture; it also focuses on GCP data and AI/ML workflows, including Vertex AI, LLM-enabled capabilities, and practical opportunities for intelligent automation and observability. The position requires 10+ years of relevant experience, strong data engineering and cloud engineering expertise, and hands-on delivery of LLM-enabled data products or pipelines.

Required Skills

Data Engineering
GCP
CI/CD
Vertex AI
RAG
Vector Indexing
Kafka
Airflow

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 10+ years of experience in relevant technologies
Data engineering experience with Python, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Hadoop, NiFi/Kafka, and RDBMS
Modern delivery and operations experience, including end-to-end ownership, continuous delivery, DevOps, and operational metrics
Broad engineering exposure across platform, infrastructure, function-as-a-service, and agile delivery
Hands-on delivery of at least one LLM-enabled capability, such as RAG, embeddings, vector indexing, or LLM evaluation
Delivery of critical data products or pipelines with measurable improvements in reliability, latency, and data quality
Preferred Qualifications: Practical experience with Vertex AI or equivalent managed LLM services, including deploying and consuming endpoints
Experience with Vertex AI, model deployment, feature stores, vector search, and embeddings
Experience with streaming and container platforms
Familiarity with GenAI governance patterns
Experience with open-source vector databases and evaluation tooling
GCP Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
Translation Company Name: HSBC Global Services Limited