Lead Data Engineer, Standard Chartered nexus

Want to push the boundaries of traditional technology, finance, and operations? At nexus, courage is a defining trait for all team members. Courage to challenge the status quo, to do better, to deliver against the grain and to achieve spectacular results in massive ambiguity. We want to change how ecosystems interact and only have the blueprint for the baby steps - come join us to build out the rest of it! The idea is to do amazing things and have a lot of fun while doing it.
What you will do:

• Play the role of a data technology leader for Nexus as it builds out BaaS platform and data products.
• Lead the data architecture and implementation of Nexus Data Lake, Engineering, Reporting and Tooling.
• Industrialize the rollout and deployment of nexus data lake into multiple partner locations and cloud regions.
• Apply product thinking when building out data capabilities to help with scaling in many countries and companies.
• Own vision and road map for data engineering and data culture.
• Collaborate with security, risk and functional delivery teams to understand the platform evolves to support the business and technology needs
• Contribute to securing of the data lake offering using DevSecOps best practices, SAST and DAST tools
• Lead automation efforts for Data Jobs and Pipelines at nexus.
• Hire, Mentor and Guide team members and perform code and architecture review for Data pipelines.
• Help make the nexus data engineering solution scalable and highly available
• Collaborate with Developer Productivity Engineering Lead to provide a world class experience for all our developers
• Collaborate with Cloud Platform Lead to provide one click setup/deployment
• Collaborate with Data Platform Lead to enhance data solutions
• Collaborate with Domain Leads and promote federated data governance culture.
• Extend the data lake solution to add MLOps capability
• Add tooling to enhance self-service capability for both data pipelines, experimentation and access.

Role Technical Competencies

• 4+ years of experience working in a Data Warehouse/Engineering or Data Platform team.
• Previous Team lead experience in Data or Software Engineering.
• At least two years of coding experience with Scala.
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience prioritising tasks with technology teams.
• Strong background in agile delivery methodology with experience working with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Good understanding of AWS, GCP or Azure Cloud
• Experience working with Presto, Trino, Hive, Parquet files and partitioning.
• Experience with one of Apache Spark, Beam, Flink
• Experience with one of Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
• Experience with at least one NoSQL Database

We are also looking for:

• Relevant certifications in Data Technologies.
• An innovator who thinks out of the box to craft creative data engineering solutions.
• A storyteller with excellent presentation and communication skills.
• A people leader with experience in team management and a passion in people development.

Nice to have(s):

• Experience with NoSQL Databases, Elasticsearch and Kafka.
• Experience with Kubernetes or Containers
• Experience with Domain Specific Languages
• Prior experience working with Apache Cassandra or MongoDB.
• Prior Experience with Apache Hadoop or Data warehousing

About nexus
nexus is a white label plug-and-play banking solution powered by Standard Chartered Bank. We take pride in redefining how we bank customers globally by digitally marrying ecosystems to banks. Our Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution is the gateway that enables convenient access to financial services. We believe in challenging the status quo and thinking outside the box to deliver innovative solutions. Let's shape the future of banking together.

Lead Data Engineer, Standard Chartered nexus