Lead, Real-Time Data Streaming Platform

HSBC Group

Sheffield

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

HSBC Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Real-Time Data Engineering Lead to own the technical direction of scalable, low-latency data flows across global markets. You will architect event-driven ingestion and transformation pipelines, oversee 24x7 production operations and set standards for data quality, privacy and security.

Strong leadership, experience with Kafka/Flink/Spark, Google Cloud, and regulated domains such as financial crime are essential.

Qualifications

Experience building high-volume, low-latency data platforms.
Expertise in real-time data processing and streaming architectures.
Strong leadership and collaboration with risk, compliance and AI teams.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction and delivery of scalable, low-latency data flows across HSBC's global markets.
Architect event-driven solutions for transaction ingestion, transformation and delivery into monitoring, decisioning and intervention services.
Lead engineering teams to build highly available, observable streaming platforms that perform reliably at peak volume.
Set standards for data quality, lineage, privacy, security, performance and operational resilience.
Make architectural trade-offs; act as senior escalation point; partner with product and AI teams to productionise advanced analytics.
Influence the data platform roadmap while coaching senior engineers and fostering ownership.