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 an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
We’re one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are seeking a Quantexa Lead Developer
The person is expected to oversee and guide the day-to-day activities of the technical team, with the help of experienced colleagues, ensuring the team follows good practice.
In this role, you will:
- Lead and develop a team
- The role requires a strong tech lead to play a significant role in 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, 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 experienced colleagues, ensuring the team follows good practice etc. In addition, this person will be able to suggest and plan best technical solutions, undertake problem solving, etc whilst balancing pragmatism vs long tern best practice. This role includes hands on development and analysis and is 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 predominately India
- Should be flexible in working hours, ready to work in shift and on call
To be successful in this role you should have the following skills:
- Background in hands-on technical development, industry experience in a data engineering or engineering equivalent and in managing a team of 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, with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.
- 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 in building and deploying production level data solutions maintained by application support teams
- 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
- Experience in managed services AWS EKS, Azure EKS
- Experience in Angular
- Microservices (OCP, Kubernetes)
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 - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.