Principal Engineer – Cybersecurity Analytics

HSBC

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Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your tech career? Interested in creating next-generation cybersecurity and analytics capabilities? If you are, then apply to join HSBC’s Cybersecurity Science & Analytics (CSA) team. We use our award-winning advanced analytics platform to develop innovative products for securing one of the largest technology estates in the world.

CSA are a unique and multi-skilled team of cybersecurity scientists, data and analytics professionals, and engineers. Our mission is to harness the power of data, analytics, AI/ML, and cybersecurity science to innovate and advance HSBC’s cybersecurity capabilities.

The Principal Engineer (Cybersecurity Analytics) role will work across all CSA’s delivery teams (particularly CSA’s Advanced Projects team), joining a global group of cybersecurity specialists, data scientists, and software engineers from diverse backgrounds to deliver critical analytics engineering requirements for Cybersecurity teams. This is a critical technical role, spearheading the technical strategy and delivery of advanced analytics solutions to cybersecurity problems through rapid development of prototypes, engineering of production solutions, and exploration of longer term, potentially ground-breaking technologies.

The position is a senior technical role that will involve ongoing personal, hands-on software engineering activity as well as oversight of technical strategy. It requires knowledge of data engineering, data science, advanced analytics techniques, research and development, and innovation within one or more of the Cybersecurity sciences (e.g. network, endpoint and cloud security, cryptography, malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, privileged access management, anomaly/intrusion detection, incident response, or offensive security). Deep cybersecurity domain knowledge is a prerequisite for the role.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical and stakeholder management skills, an eagerness to learn, a keen interest in Cybersecurity, the ability to work strategically and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, and an aptitude for picking up new tools and techniques on the job. They will be a thought-leader for engineering practice across CSA, want to help set the direction for solutions to our most challenging problems, and be keen to play a hands-on role in analytics engineering delivery.

Job Requirements:

Data Engineering

• Designing and building custom applications, platforms and solutions to tackle cybersecurity challenges.
• Ingestion and provisioning of datasets, delta tables, and curated, re-usable data assets to enable Cybersecurity use cases.
• Providing thought leadership and best practice to the wider engineering community in CSA and across the Cybersecurity teams.
• Supporting and developing more junior engineers.

Cybersecurity Sciences Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation

• Driving innovative research & development to test and evolve new technologies and advanced analytic techniques.
• Exploring and developing innovative capabilities, exploiting emerging technologies and data science to help stay ahead of advancing cyber threats.

Rapid Response

• Responding to urgent requests to address vulnerabilities or emerging threats.

Advanced Analytics & Security Software Development

• Supporting Cybersecurity teams in using data and advanced analytic technologies effectively to enhance operations and inform decisions.
• Delivering critical analytics engineering requirements across Cybersecurity.
• Developing new data products, analysis platforms, and custom AI solutions to enable Cybersecurity teams to monitor controls more effectively, automatically detect and triage malicious activity, optimise manual tasks, better protect HSBC, and meet the needs of customers.
• Developing new models, detections, and automations to protect against advanced and emerging threats and help Cybersecurity operate efficiently and effectively at scale.
• Developing custom security applications, APIs, and data-driven services in support of the Cybersecurity mission.