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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Consultant Specialist.
In this role, you will:
- The role requires a strong leader to oversee the solution design and implementation of change whilst at the same time ensuring production is resilient and performant. This includes interaction with the bank’s architects and other systems and technical teams, end users and stakeholders.
- The person is expected to oversee and guide the day-to-day activities of the technical team, with the help of his more experienced colleagues, ensure the team follows good practice etc. In addition, this person will be able to suggest and plan best technical solutions, undertake problem solving, etc balancing pragmatism vs long tern best practice. Thus role includes opportunities for hands on development and analysis and not just team management.
- Role covers a mix of change and run responsibilities. Current team size is around 45 people located in UK, India, China, Poland and Mexico but mostly India.
- Should be flexible in working hours, ready to work in shift and On call.
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- Background in hands-on technical development, with at least 10+ years of industry experience in a data engineering or engineering equivalent & managed a team developers
- Strong emotional intelligence, able to work professionally under pressure.
- Have the gravitas to represent the platform in senior meetings
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical detail in a non technical language
- Needs to be a practitioner and proponent of Agile and Dev Ops
- Proficiency in Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Python, or a programming language associated with data engineering.
- Expertise building and deploying production level data processing batch systems maintained by application support teams.
- Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker)
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.
- Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent). Knows the difference between different test types (unit test, integration test) and can cite specific examples of what they have written themselves.
- Good understanding of CDP 7.1, HDFS filesystems, Unix, Unix Shell Scripting, Elasticsearch
- Experience in understanding and analyzing complex business requirements and carry out the system design accordingly.
- Quantexa Data Engineering Certification (Preferred)
- Experience in managed services AWS EKS, Azure EKS (Preferred)
- Experience in Angular (Preferred)
- Microservices (OCP, Kubernetes) (Preferred)
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSDI