Lead Data Engineer

Job description

Job description

Lead Data Engineer

Join a digital first bank that’s powered by people.

Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of banking services for our customers around the world.

In our cybersecurity team you’ll be helping to safeguard the financial system on which millions of people depend.

You’ll be making banking more secure by designing, implementing, and operating controls to manage cybersecurity risk. You’ll help define HSBC Group cyber security standards, deliver Global Security Operations ad Threat management services, provide round-the-clock monitoring and security incident response services, and oversee Network/Application/Infrastructure Security. The work you do will provid3e assurance of the adequacy and effectiveness of security controls to Business Risk Owners.

The Lead Cybersecurity Analytics Engineer will form part of the CSA Platform & Data Engineering Team, joining a global team of data technology professionals to deliver critical analytics engineering requirements for the strategic cybersecurity data lake and analytics platform.

The position is a mid-senior technical, hands-on delivery role, requiring knowledge of data engineering, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, platform operations and production support.

The Lead Cybersecurity Analytics Engineer role will work closely with Principal engineers within the Platform & Data Engineering Team, contributing to and coordinating data engineering, data acquisition, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, platform operations, and production support activities using ground-breaking cloud and big data technologies. There is ample room for growth in the role, with opportunities to develop skills across multiple domains, starting from a strong foundation in one or more core technical areas e.g., data engineering or cloud infrastructure engineering

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

• Ingestion and provisioning of raw datasets, enriched tables, and/or curated, re-usable data assets to enable Cybersecurity use cases.
• Driving improvements in the reliability and frequency of data ingestion including increasing real-time coverage
• Support and enhancement of data ingestion infrastructure and pipelines.
• Designing and implementing data pipelines that will collect data from disparate sources across the enterprise, and from external sources, transport said data, and deliver it to our data platform.
• Extract Translate and Load (ETL) workflows, using both advanced data manipulation tools and programmatically manipulating data throughout our data flows, ensuring data is available at each stage in the data flow, and in the form needed for each system, service, and customer along said data flow.
• Identifying and onboarding data sources using existing schemas and, where required, conducting exploratory data analysis to investigate and determine new schemas.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience with SRE and Azure DevOps
• Ability to script (Bash/PowerShell, Azure CLI), code (Python, C#, Java), query (SQL, Kusto query language) coupled with experience with software versioning control systems (e.g., GitHub) and CI/CD systems
• Data Acquisition, Cloud-based Data Pipelines (Azure preferred)
• Data Transport and Data Cleaning
• Data Engineering pipeline automation, productionisation, and optimisation
• Technical knowledge and breadth of Azure technology services (Identity, Networking, Compute, Storage, Web, Containers, Databases)
• Cloud & Big Data Technologies such as Azure Cloud, Azure IAM, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, Azure, Kubernetes, Service, Azure Logic App, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Data Lake Store, S3, Synapse Analytics and/or PowerBI

This role is based in Sheffield.

Opening up a world of opportunity

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone -  no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

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