HSBC

Lead AI Platform Applications Engineer/Senior Associate Director

HSBC
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6 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production-grade generative AI capabilities and integrations for HSBC Productivity Suite.
  • Write, review, and deploy production code while spending more than half of the role on hands-on engineering.
  • Provide technical leadership across engineering pods, set technical direction, and solve complex engineering problems.
  • Shape technical strategy and roadmaps by translating ambiguous business problems into measurable outcomes and engineering plans.
  • Develop reusable capabilities, frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards, including agentic AI applications across the software development lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews without formal line-management responsibility.
  • Lead production support and incident response to maintain availability, performance, resilience, and scalability.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, business, and operations leaders to influence priorities through technical expertise and evidence.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on software engineering experience designing, coding, and operating user-facing products at scale.
  • Advanced experience with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, including prototyping, coding, testing, and code review.
  • Strong Python expertise and practical knowledge of APIs, microservices, databases, containers, continuous integration and delivery, and React.
  • Hands-on experience taking AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions from experimentation through secure, reliable production use.
  • Strong knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and responsible AI.
  • Experience providing technical leadership through influence, setting direction, solving complex engineering problems, and mentoring engineers as a hands-on individual contributor.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud-based services on platforms such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to turn ambiguous business problems into measurable technical outcomes.

Benefits

  • Flexible working, continuous professional development, and opportunities for career growth.
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices.
  • Opportunity to shape enterprise AI engineering capability and generative AI adoption across HSBC.

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About HSBC

10,000+ employees

HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.

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