Senior Big Data Engineer

at  HSBC

Job description

JOIN A DIGITAL FIRST BANK THAT’S POWERED BY PEOPLE.

Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank. Our people work together, creating an agile, collaborative, and innovative culture. You’ll learn and expand your skills, plus we will support you every step of the way as you grow your career.
Group Data Technology (GDT) enables the bank to democratize and commercialize the bank’s data via world-class technologies and engineering capabilities. We partner with business and technology teams to contribute towards HSBC’s Data and Technology Strategy, and ultimately deliver world-class banking services to our customers. Data Provisioning Technologies is a global department within Group Data Technology (GDT) and has teams around the globe supporting Big Data, Data Ingestion, Data Transformation and Data Distribution solutions globally across all global business and functions. The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our vision for Data as an asset, and therefore the need to increase the speed and quality of delivery. We continue to mature DevOps model driving agile delivery and building a strong product ownership group. We are seeking a Head of Big Data Engineering to join Data Provisioning Technology team.
This role reports to Head of Data Provisioning Technologies (DPT) and we require a hands-on platform engineer, accountable for end-to-end execution, delivery, and support of the Big Data technologies to our clients, including change programmes, technology programmes and production services. The role will support our multi-year architecture, technology, people, and process changes while ensuring delivery to our business partners’ requirements. Pivotal to this will be modernizing our technology, redefining our ways of working, diminishing engineering friction and creating enabled and autonomous teams.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND QUALIFICATION

• Hands on platform engineering and able to work in production environments.
• Deep technical skills and experience around Big Data products and platforms; Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, K8S
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
• Experience in working in an agile environment with a strong focus on developing engineering solutions.
• Proven ability to improve developer productivity – through automation, reusability, and advanced technical skills.
• Strong leadership skills, team-builder and influencer.
• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.
• Proven track record in developing, managing and implementing effective stakeholder management strategies.
• Ability to think laterally and innovatively and find creative solutions, with a proactive approach to problem solving and delivery.
• Ability to understand business issues and devise solutions that deliver results, constructing innovative approaches where required.
• Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritize and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues.
• Great attention to detail and an ability to identify and manage risk
  This role is based in London/Hybrid

• Provide technical leadership across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilizing their skills and expertise to carry out engineering, testing and operational support activities.
• End to end accountability for Big Data product or service, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions.
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service’s direction.
• Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high quality platform solutions.
• Provide support to DevOps teams working at all stages of a product or service release/change with a strong customer focus and end to end journeys, ensuring they have an excellent domain knowledge.
• Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable.
• Work with the Engineering Practice to promote development of engineers through coaching, and mentoring.
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices with the domain and across HSBC.
• Identify as an authority for specific engineering disciplines providing steer/assistance to programmes or projects that require it.
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