The Role Responsibilities
As a Data Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and implementing scalable and robust data engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Databricks, Azure, PySpark, Spark, Airflow, and possess advanced proficiency in Java, Python, and Go programming languages. This role requires a strong foundation in data engineering principles, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of successfully delivering complex data projects.
Business
· Architect and implement data solutions on the Azure platform, with a focus on Databricks, PySpark, Spark, and Airflow.
· Develop and maintain efficient, scalable, and reliable data engineering processes to support business analytics and reporting needs.
· Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand and address their data processing needs.
· Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the data engineering team.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and contribute to the overall data strategy of the organization.
People & Talent
· Lead a team of data engineers in the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and ETL processes.
· Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the data engineering team, ensuring best practices are followed and continuous improvement is embraced.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
· Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
· Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
· Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
· Chief sustainability office / Sustainable finance team
· Group Architect & ESG domain architect
· Product and Functional Partners
Our Ideal Candidate
· 10+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer.
· Strong expertise in Databricks, Azure, PySpark, and Spark for building and optimizing data pipelines.
· Proficient in designing and implementing data workflows using Apache Airflow.
· Advanced programming skills in Java, Python, and Go.
· Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of data engineers.
· Solid understanding of data modeling, database design, and data warehousing concepts.
· Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
· Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Big Data Management
· Big Data Computing
· Database Structures
· Modeling: Data, Process, Events, Objects
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
· Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
· Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
· Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
· Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
· Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
· Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
· Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
· A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
· Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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