Principal Data Engineer - Cybersecurity

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Sheffield
9 months ago
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Join a digital first bank that’s powered by people.

Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of banking services for our customers around the world.

In our cybersecurity team you’ll be helping to safeguard the financial system on which millions of people depend.

You’ll be making banking more secure by designing, implementing, and operating controls to manage cybersecurity risk. You’ll help define HSBC Group cyber security standards, deliver Global Security Operations ad Threat management services, provide round-the-clock monitoring and security incident response services, and oversee Network/Application/Infrastructure Security. The work you do will provid3e assurance of the adequacy and effectiveness of security controls to Business Risk Owners.
 

The Principal Cybersecurity Analytics Data Engineer, is a key technical role within the Platform & Data Engineering Team, contributing to, coordinating, and leading data engineering, data acquisition, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, platform operations, and production support activities using ground-breaking cloud and big data technologies. 

 

The position is a senior technical, hands-on delivery role, requiring knowledge of data engineering, cloud infrastructure   and platform engineering, platform operations and production support.

 

In this role you will:

  • Ingest and provision raw datasets, enriched tables, and curated data assets to support various cybersecurity use cases.
  • Drive enhancements to the data ingestion process, with an emphasis on real-time data coverage.
  • Design and implement robust data pipelines that integrate diverse data sources across the enterprise and external platforms.
  • Perform ETL workflows, leveraging both advanced data manipulation tools and custom code, ensuring data is accessible and structured appropriately for all systems and stakeholders.
  • Identify, analyze, and onboard new data sources, conducting exploratory analysis when necessary.

 

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

  • Strong experience with SRE and Azure DevOps.
  • Proficiency in scripting (Bash/PowerShell, Azure CLI), coding (Python, C#, Java), and querying (SQL, Kusto).
  • Hands-on experience with PowerShell, Terraform, and object-oriented programming languages.
  • Strong experience with cloud & big data technologies, including Azure Cloud, Azure IAM, Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Kubernetes, and PowerBI.
  • Experience with server and infrastructure technologies like Nginx/Apache, CosmosDB, Linux, and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch.

 

This role can be based in both Sheffield and / or Edinburgh

Opening 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.

 

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