Job Description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: Group Functions Technology L3

Principal responsibilities

• Part of a pod of Data Engineers that supports multiple GCP development projects.
• Collaborate with GCP delivery teams, to challenge and refine solution designs, ensuring at all times that DevOps best practice is followed.
• Key or pivotal role in delivery of a large-scale IT project (requirements, design, development, testing, data, infrastructure), preferably delivered following an Agile approach.
• Demonstrable experience in understanding business requirements and translating these requirements into a solid, robust technical design that can withstand scrutiny by various teams involved in governance processes around live deployments (IT Security, Cyber Security etc.)
• Demonstrated an ability to see beyond the defined business requirements and designing solutions that are readily maintainable, easy to extend and that allow for future requirements to be easily implemented minimising technical debt where possible
• A large cloud implementation/migration project (preferably GCP), all the way through to go-live.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud architecture solutions that maximise the use of PaaS offerings.
• Understand the concept of immutable infrastructure (what it means, what design considerations are key & why it is important), and ideally some experience on at least one project.
• Understand “infrastructure-as-code” and “configuration-as-code” (what are the benefits?), and ability to differentiate toolsets/platforms used to implement each one.
• Develop data pipelines / APIs using Python, SQL, potentially BigQuery, Cloud SQL Bigtable etc.
• Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks in GCP cloud platform.
• Experience using Terraform (designing re-usable code & writing custom Terraform modules).
• Experience writing Jenkins pipelines, developing jobs that can be re-used across delivery teams
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure environments (admin, users, IAM & service accounts).
• Experience of working in a test-driven development (TDD) approach.
• Understand the concepts behind effective secrets management ideally having implemented it on at least one project, knowledge of concepts - leasing, secret wrapping etc.
• Track record of delivery.
• Banking and/or Financial Crime Risk experience (optional).

Requirements

• Including: commercial orientation, customer drive, business development, analytical reasoning, management planning, decisiveness, leadership, teamwork, building and managing relationships, communication, drive and resilience, change orientation, technical knowledge etc
• Skilled at generating actionable insights from data
• Developing, iterating and productionising complex data models
• Scala
• Spark
• Elastic Search
• Google Cloud Platform– DataProc, BigQuery, IAM, K8s
• Fluent English writing and speaking skills
• Essential Interpersonal Skills:
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to navigate a complex organisation.
• Ability to be self-directed/motivated.
• Keen to learn new skills and approaches. Inquisitive nature.
• Excellent organisation skills and capability to manage multiple parallel activities.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Useful Skills/Knowledge:
• Any SNA system e.g. SAS Fraud Framework, Palantir, Wynyard, Detica Netreveal, digital reasoning, Novetta
• Java
• Python
• AI
• JavaScript
• Financial crime detection or other related bank business knowledge

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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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