Scala Big Data Engineer

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Enterprise Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti- money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessment etc. and is dedicated to implement the most effective global standards to combat financial crime. 

The Global Social Network Analytics (GSNA) platform uses Big Data technology together with AI and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to identify potential financial crime risks that enable a global network of Investigators, Intelligence Analysts and Data Scientists to conduct effective intelligence-based investigations.  

We are currently looking for Scala Big Data Engineer. This role is based at our Global Technology Centre in Krakow.

The team is made up of 10 scrum teams based across China, India, Poland and the UK. We run Agile Scrum with 2-week sprints, and releases every 6 weeks. Our Technology stack is a mix of Scala, Spark, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, with a move to GCP Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins CICD DevOps 

What you’ll do

As a Scala Big Data Engineer, you’ll be working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) creating pipelines though Spark Shell analysing data in one of the biggest Datalakes in the world and using AirFlow to validate tests that you write. We work to promote the agile culture in a strongly regulated industry, so it’s expected from you to challenge the way things are done whilst following the current rules accurately. 

Required skills: 

• Knowledge of Scala Spark

• Ability to manage branches and resolve merge conflicts

• Fluent English

Nice to have:

Experience with 

• Jira and Confluence

• GCP, and Apache Airflow

• JUnit, TDD, BDD

• Jenkins 

• Clean code, SOLID, KISS, DRY, design patterns

• Elasticsearch

• Experience in at least one of the large Cloud providers (Azure, AWS)

• Pervious Secure Code Warrior certifications

• Experience working within Scrum framework

• Commercial experience is a plus, but not mandatory

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards

• Multisport card

• Private medical care

• Life insurance

• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).

• Corporate parties & events

• CSR initiatives

• Nursery discounts

• Financial support with trainings and education

• Social fund

• Flexible working hours 

• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)

• Telephone screen (for external candidates only)

• Job interview with the hiring manager

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!

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