Why HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect, focusing on Infrastructure area to shape, govern, and drive the infrastructure architecture for our AI Platform across multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud) and on‑prem environments. This role sets the infrastructure direction for onboarding new platform capabilities, ensuring alignment to HSBC enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards, and providing transparent technical leadership to infrastructure engineering teams to execute.

You’ll act as a trusted infrastructure consultant to engineering, product, and control functions—translating AI platform needs into pragmatic, supportable infrastructure designs that are secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant.

What you'll be doing

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Define and govern infrastructure architecture for the AI Platform: reference architectures, standards, guardrails, patterns and roadmaps across cloud and also on‑prem environments.
2. Provide technical direction and design authority for infrastructure engineering teams, including solution reviews, design approvals, and delivery oversight.
3. Lead vendor/product evaluation and adoption (e.g. GPU platforms, Kubernetes distributions, storage and networking solutions, observability stacks), ensuring fit with HSBC infrastructure requirements, support models, and lifecycle management.
4. Partner closely with HSBC platform and infrastructure team on on‑prem platform development, integration with existing data center capabilities, and operational readiness.
5. Design and guide implementation of GPU infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (capacity planning, scheduling, tenancy/isolation, performance, reliability, cost controls).
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📌 AI Platform Infrastructure Architect/Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist (Pune)
🏢 HSBC Global Services
📍 Pune