GCP, Bigquery, Pyspark/Senior Consultant Specialist

Ready to build cloud-native ledger data pipelines on Google Cloud?

Why HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

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

Join Group Function Tech - Finance IT as a Senior Developer (Global Career Band 5) working on Finance Google Cloud applications that deliver Finance Ledger applications and related services. This role sits within the Ledger Strategy programme which is redesigning the operating model using cloud compute and a data-driven approach to processing. You’ll build and support high-performance batch data pipelines and microservices with clear non-functional requirements across resilience, scalability, latency, observability and security. Success means delivering production-ready code frequently with strong testing and operational readiness built in. You’ll also help strengthen engineering and operational practices across the team while partnering closely with senior stakeholders to turn business outcomes into delivery milestones.

What you'll be doing

• Build, deploy and support core services using Apache Spark for Finance Ledger applications
• Deliver hands-on engineering with regular production releases using trunk-based development practices
• Design high-performance data pipelines and microservices meeting resilience, scalability, latency, observability and security needs
• Establish engineering excellence across batch pipelines, data modelling, testing strategy and operational readiness while managing technical debt
• Partner with engineers on code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning and production incident resolution
• Create automation to improve engineering efficiency including scripting, tooling and testing across unit, regression and functional coverage
• Implement cloud and platform engineering on GCP across services such as Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer (Google-managed Apache Airflow), Dataproc, BigQuery and GKE
• Govern operational excellence for production workloads including monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimisation while ensuring data quality, lineage and security controls
• Coach and mentor engineers across levels and communicate delivery plans, risks and dependencies with senior stakeholders

What we're looking for

• Demonstrate substantial hands-on development experience with cloud technologies and strong proficiency in Apache Spark
• Apply advanced SQL skills including data modelling, cloud storage mechanisms and file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg
• Use trunk-based development practices and deliver frequent releases to production
• Build or improve end-to-end DevOps pipelines for automated testing, regression and deployments
• Apply experience with GCP data and platform services such as Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer (Apache Airflow), Dataproc, BigQuery and GKE
• Design and run production-grade data pipelines with monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reliability improvements
• Communicate technical plans and milestones clearly to senior stakeholders while managing risks and dependencies
• Apply planning and organisation skills to prioritise competing demands and deliver change in an operational context. Bring knowledge of Accounting or Ledger concepts

Building Finance Ledger on Cloud

This role gives you the scope to shape how HSBC processes and operationalises finance data on Google Cloud at scale. You’ll work on services that matter to the bank’s ledger outcomes with a strong focus on production quality, automation and operational excellence. If you want to build modern data pipelines and platform services in a regulated environment with clear purpose and real impact we’d like to hear from you.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India