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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Your career opportunity
Enterprise Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti- money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessment etc. and is dedicated to implement the most effective global standards to combat financial crime. The Global Social Network Analytics (GSNA) platform uses Big Data technology together with AI and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to identify potential financial crime risks that enable a global network of Investigators, Intelligence Analysts and Data Scientists to conduct effective intelligence-based investigations.  
We are a team of over 150 people closely following Agile Scrum framework with Scrum teams based in Poland, China, and the UK. We run 2-week sprints with 6-week release cycles. We have a great work atmosphere and celebrate our successes and failures. Our open and collaborative work culture means we enjoy going out together every month to bond and celebrate our team efforts.
As a Scala Spark Engineer you’ll be working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) creating pipelines though Spark Shell analysing data in one of the biggest Datalakes in the world and using AirFlow to validate tests that you write. We work to promote the agile culture in a strongly regulated industry, so it’s expected from you to challenge the way things are done whilst following the current rules accurately.
The GSNA project is the next generation of tooling for combatting financial crime. Covering investment banking, commercial banking and retail banking globally. The architecture comprises Hadoop, elastic search microservices, relational databases.

What you’ll do
    • Burn the Sprint backlog and help the team to accomplish all goals.
    • Work closely with other software developers (on site, and remotely in the UK and China).
    • Follow Scrum framework practices.
    • Standard code maintenance (testing, refactoring, fixing).
    • Help Product Owners to understand and refine technical backlog items.
    • Share knowledge in the team and across the wider teams.
    • Take part in e2e product dev cycle, including releases to production.

What you need to have to succeed in this role
    • Very good knowledge of Scala / Spark.
    • Knowledge of GitHub, Jira and Confluence.
    • Experience working within Scrum framework.
    • Good communication skills in English (discussing, presenting etc.).
    • Optional:
      • Hands-on experience with GCP, and Apache Airflow.
      • Knowledge of JUnit, TDD, BDD.
      • Familiarity with Jenkins. 
      • Understanding of Clean code, SOLID, KISS, DRY, design patterns.
      • Knowledge of Elasticsearch.
      • Experience with at least one of the large Cloud providers (Azure, AWS).
      • Pervious Secure Code Warrior certifications.

What we offer
    • Competitive salary
    • Annual performance-based bonus
    • Additional bonuses for recognition awards
    • Multisport card
    • Private medical care
    • Life insurance
    • One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
    • Corporate parties & events
    • CSR initiatives
    • Nursery discounts
    • Financial support with trainings and education
    • Social fund
    • Flexible working hours 
    • Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process: 
    • Online behavioural test (for external candidates only) 
    • Telephone screen (for external candidates only) 
    • Job Interviews with the hiring manager

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now! 
You'll achieve more when you join HSBC. 

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.

In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: krakow.recruitment@hsbc.com