Consultant Specialist

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist. As a Consultant Specialist, you will be part of a pod of Data Engineers that supports multiple GCP development projects. You will collaborate with GCP delivery teams to challenge and refine solution designs, ensuring that DevOps best practices are followed.

Key responsibilities include:

• Playing a pivotal role in the delivery of a large-scale IT project, including requirements, design, development, testing, data, and infrastructure, preferably using an Agile approach.
• Translating business requirements into solid, robust technical designs that can withstand scrutiny by various teams involved in governance processes.
• Designing solutions that are readily maintainable, easy to extend, and allow for future requirements to be easily implemented, minimising technical debt where possible.
• Implementing large cloud implementations/migrations, preferably on GCP, all the way through to go-live.
• Working with cloud architecture solutions that maximise the use of PaaS offerings.
• Understanding the concept of immutable infrastructure and ideally having experience on at least one project.
• Understanding 'infrastructure-as-code' and 'configuration-as-code', and being able to differentiate toolsets/platforms used to implement each one.
• Developing data pipelines/APIs using Python, SQL, potentially BigQuery, Cloud SQL Bigtable, etc.
• Building large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks in GCP cloud platform.
• Using Terraform to design reusable code and write custom Terraform modules.
• Writing Jenkins pipelines and developing jobs that can be reused across delivery teams.
• Managing cloud infrastructure environments, including admin, users, IAM, and service accounts.
• Working in a test-driven development (TDD) approach.
• Understanding the concepts behind effective secrets management, ideally having implemented it on at least one project.

Requirements include:

• Commercial orientation, customer drive, business development, analytical reasoning, management planning, decisiveness, leadership, teamwork, building and managing relationships, communication, drive and resilience, change orientation, technical knowledge, etc.
• Being skilled at generating actionable insights from data.
• Developing, iterating, and productionising complex data models.
• Having experience with Scala, Spark, Elastic Search, Google Cloud Platform – DataProc, BigQuery, IAM, K8s.
• Fluent English writing and speaking skills.

Useful skills and knowledge include:

• Experience with any SNA system, e.g., SAS Fraud Framework, Palantir, Wynyard, Detica Netreveal, digital reasoning, Novetta.
• Knowledge of Java, Python, AI, JavaScript.
• Experience in financial crime detection or other related bank business knowledge.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected, and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.