Platform Domain Lead

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.

We’re currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Platform Domain Lead.

You’ll own the strategy, delivery, and governance of the enterprise data platform on Google Cloud. You’ll lead adoption and industrialisation of Tier‑1 data capabilities, including data entitlement & privacy, catalog, lineage, quality, controls and integrity, observability, modelling, factory automation, self‑service, trusted source, multi‑tenant usage monitoring, federated governance, embedded AI, separability, and integration across the Control Plane, portal, and key enterprise platforms.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you’ll:

• Own the strategy, delivery, and governance of the enterprise data platform on Google Cloud
• Define the platform vision, roadmap, and standards for Tier‑1 data services
• Architect a scalable, secure, cost‑optimised Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data platform (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Storage)
• Establish and enforce data governance (entitlement, privacy, retention, lineage, catalog, quality, integrity, usage monitoring, federated policies)
• Lead build-out of the Control Plane and unified portal, including automation, self‑service consumption, multi‑tenant patterns, and separability
• Oversee data modelling and trusted source curation, including reference/master data strategy
• Drive observability across the platform (metrics, tracing, anomaly detection, AI‑assisted data repair)
• Lead CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, security and compliance (Terraform, IAM/KMS/VPC SC, GDPR/regional banking), plus performance and cost optimisation

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

• Extensive experience of data platform engineering and leading cloud data programs
• Roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, budgeting & cost optimisation
• Proven background in large scale GCP data architecture delivery within an enterprise level organisation
• Strong SQL, Python, Terraform, streaming, governance implementation
• Track record in building self-service and multi-tenant data platforms
• Proven technical experience in GCP: including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM, Artifact Registry.
• Strong Data engineering experience using: ETL/ELT, streaming (Kafka/Pub/Sub), schema evolution, CDC.
• Knowledge of Tooling: Terraform, Python, Java, dbt/Prophecy, Jenkins/GitLab CI, Docker/Kubernetes

Opening up a world of opportunity

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