Senior Tech Lead - Data Engineering / Consultant Specialist

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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.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Own the technical roadmap for RDH ingestion, transformation, and distribution on GCP.
• Set and enforce engineering standards (coding, testing, DevSecOps, release management, documentation, operational readiness).
• Provide hands-on technical leadership via design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and pairing.
• Design, build, and optimise Dataflow/Apache Beam pipelines for internal/external reference datasets (batch and/or streaming).
• Drive performance, reliability, and cost optimisation across pipelines (e.g., autoscaling, efficient I/O patterns).
• Lead the transformation layer in BigQuery using DBT (modelling standards, macros, tests, documentation, lineage) and implement data quality controls (tests, reconciliation, anomaly detection).
• Ensure reliable data delivery to consumers via APIs, SFTP, BigQuery Authorised Views; define/meet SLAs/SLOs and resolve integration issues.
• Own production stability: act as senior escalation, lead major incident triage/communication, drive RCA and preventative actions, and improve monitoring/alerting and runbooks—while embedding security/risk/compliance by design (IAM least privilege, encryption, auditability, segregation of duties).

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

• Strong hands-on GCP experience, specifically BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, IAM.
• Proven delivery of Dataflow / Apache Beam pipelines (batch and/or streaming) in Java and/or Python.
• Strong SQL skills with BigQuery performance optimisation (partitioning/clustering, cost/performance tuning, troubleshooting).
• Solid DBT experience (modelling patterns, tests, documentation, environments, deployment).
• Experience with workflow orchestration using Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD for data engineering (Git-based workflows, automated testing, release controls).
• Strong production operations capability: monitoring/alerting, incident management, RCA, runbooks, SLO/SLA mindset.
• Demonstrated tech leadership: design/code reviews, mentoring, stakeholder management, and delivery in a controlled/regulatory environment.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India