Lead Quantexa Developer — Hybrid & On-Call

HSBC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Quantexa Lead Developer to oversee the day-to-day activities of a global technical team, guiding solution design and change while ensuring production resilience and performance.

You will lead a distributed team (~45) across UK, India, China, Poland and Mexico, balancing hands-on development with architectural collaboration and best practices in Agile and DevOps. Flexibility for shifts/on-call is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on development and data engineering background.
• Strong leadership of a developer team and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication, able to explain tech to non-technical audiences.
• Proven experience with Agile and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Python.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes-based microservices and production systems.
• Quantexa Data Engineering Certification is a plus.
• Experience with managed services AWS EKS, Azure EKS.
• Familiarity with CDP 7.1, HDFS, Unix, Elasticsearch.
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and design scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a technical team across locations.
• Guide solution design and implement changes while ensuring resilience and performance.
• Engage with architects and other teams to deliver production-grade data solutions.
• Balance pragmatism with long-term best practices; hands-on development included.
• Manage a mix of change and run tasks; team size ~45 across multiple regions.

Skills

Hands-on development

Data engineering

Team leadership

Agile & DevOps

Hadoop

Spark

Scala

Python

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Unix Shell scripting

AWS EKS

Azure EKS

Angular

CDP 7.1

HDFS

Tools

AWS EKS

Azure EKS

Kubernetes

Angular

Job description

HSBC is seeking a Quantexa Lead Developer to oversee the day-to-day activities of a global technical team, guiding solution design and change while ensuring production resilience and performance.

You will lead a distributed team (~45) across UK, India, China, Poland and Mexico, balancing hands-on development with architectural collaboration and best practices in Agile and DevOps. Flexibility for shifts/on-call is required.