Job Description — Senior Associate Director, Engineering (GCB4)
Profile focus: Solid technology leader with proven system design capability and hands-on Java engineering experience.

Role purpose
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of resilient, cloud-native data platforms and microservices. You’ll set technical direction, modernize legacy estates, and stay close enough to the code to unblock teams and raise engineering quality—especially in Java/Spring Boot and distributed system design.

Key responsibilities
Technical leadership & architecture
- Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices , covering non-functional requirements (resilience, scalability, latency, observability, security).
- Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform, refactor, microservices decomposition), ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
- Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing strategy, CI/CD and operational readiness.




- manage technical debt with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.

Hands-on delivery (Java-centric)
- Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA , PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ), and event streaming patterns.
- Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
- Partners with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
- Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), leveraging Python where needed.

Cloud, data & platform engineering (GCP)
- Drive engineering delivery on GCP : Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse), and GKE.
- Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, lineage and security controls across pipelines and downstream

📌 Senior Engineering Lead (Pune)
🏢 HSBC Global Services
📍 Pune