Engineering Pod Lead

Brand:  HSBC
Area of Interest:  Technology
Location: 

Birmingham, GB, B1 1HQ

Work style:  Hybrid Worker
Date:  30 Jun 2025

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.

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.

 

Overview:

The ESG Data Utility (EDU) – is a software platform or eco-system that provides a mechanism to store, transform large amounts of raw data into consumable, high quality ‘Data Assets’ that’s ready for onward consumption or analytics.

To make the data consumable we provide multiple mechanisms to transform the raw data via data pipelines into high quality Assets.  The Data Assets are designed by business domains to be re-usable across many use cases. The quality of each Data Asset is recorded and assured by coordinating changes through a business and IT governance process. This provides the business with confidence that each Data Asset can be trusted for analytics.

The EDU also provides a mechanism to enrich information about relationships between Data Assets – focusing on ESG specific views. We use advanced techniques and technology to get a complete view of the business interactions and their ESG behaviors/commitments.

The platform is going through a large change program to uplift its core capabilities. ESG is at the forefront of adoption of new technical capabilities and is working toward building a high-quality data platform to meet HSBC’s ambitious Environmental, Social and Governance commitments.

Purpose of the job:

Engineer Pod Lead role is expected to own and manage end to end delivery of capabilities on the Data platform. The person would be entrusted to developed solutions/design ideas related to Engineering, service upkeep, developing new capabilities and identify design ideas to enable the software to meet the acceptance and success criteria, especially on the complex technical solutions and aspects.  Work with architects/ and solution designers to build platform components on the on-premises and Cloud environments.

As a key member of the technical team, you will be expected to define and contribute at a high-level to many aspects of our collaborative agile development process:

 

  • Integrating with an established, complex Hadoop/GCP based project adhering to tight deadlines.
  • Working with globally dispersed and diversified teams.
  • Supporting specific use-cases and onboarding new use-cases

 

 

Must Haves:

  • Hands on experience in building microservices (java/Spring Boot stack)
  • Experience of Managing a small Engineering Agile Team
  • Exposure to innovative engineering environments with demonstratable experience
  • Promoting development standards, code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing.
  • Hands on experience in both big data and Cloud environments ideally in GCP
  • Experience in software development and understanding of DevOps CI/CD

 

Good to have skills:

 

  • Experience with Matrix managed large scale organisations.
  • Hands on experience in Kubernetes Platform/Docker
  • Data Engineering knowledge (Spark, Scala, Hadoop and scheduling services like Apache airflow).
  • Experience working with cloud applications/infrastructure.

 

We offer hybrid style working and the site location could be any offices of your choice including Birmingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh

 

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, 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:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500