Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics (Semantics Layer Engineer)

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others. If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics (Semantics Layer Engineer). Business:CTO Data Technology Job ID: 64611 Principal responsibilities

• Design and implement semantic models for key domains, including customer/entity, onboarding journeys, credit exposures, limits, collateral, risk ratings, portfolio hierarchies, and performance measures.
• Define and govern KPIs/metrics (e.g., onboarding turnaround time, KYC SLA adherence, application drop-off, approval rate, exposure at default, utilisation, arrears/delinquency, portfolio concentration, risk-adjusted returns), with documentation and lineage.
• Translate business requirements into standard measures and conformed dimensions to ensure cross-domain consistency (e.g., customer, product, legal entity, booking location, time, risk grade).
• Implement data quality and reconciliation controls to ensure metric correctness against source-of-truth platforms.
• Optimise semantic performance and cost through appropriate modelling patterns, aggregation strategies, and incremental refresh approaches.
• Apply security controls (RBAC/ABAC), row/column-level security and auditing to support controlled access to sensitive onboarding and credit data.

Operate the semantic layer in production

• CI/CD, monitoring, incident triage, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product Owners, Analysts, Risk and Operations stakeholders to drive adoption and consistent usage.

Requirements

• Establishing “one agreed definition” for critical onboarding, credit and portfolio KPIs used across squads.
• Reducing time spent reconciling numbers across reports, dashboards and AI outputs.
• Enabling scalable self-serve analytics with clear, discoverable, versioned metric definitions.
• Maintaining a stable, performant semantic layer with strong controls and auditability. What additional skills will be good to have?
• Experience designing semantic layers for regulated domains (KYC/AML, credit risk, portfolio analytics).
• Patterns for making semantics consumable by GenAI/agents (metric APIs, definition citations, grounded responses).
• Familiarity with common semantic tooling (dbt semantic/metrics, LookML, Power BI Tabular, Cube/AtScale or similar). You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.
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