Job Summary

The Principal Data Framework Engineer develops reusable frameworks and tools that enable teams to build pipelines and workflows efficiently. This role focuses on designing metadata-driven solutions for ETL, workflows, and data specifications, optimizing data integration processes, and ensuring seamless interaction with the platform’s core components. The Framework Engineer also implements robust data quality and integrity checks, enabling a scalable and flexible framework for data engineering tasks across the organization.

Strategy

•    Framework Development: Design and implement flexible, metadata-driven frameworks for ETL, workflow orchestration, and data specifications to support efficient pipeline creation.
•    Standardization: Establish best practices and reusable components for data ingestion, transformation, and processing to streamline efforts across teams.
•    Metadata-Driven Design: Build frameworks leveraging metadata to define and automate ETL processes, workflows, and data specifications, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
•    Data Quality Checks: Develop and integrate automated data quality checks into frameworks using tools like Great Expectations or similar solutions.
•    Data Integrity Checks: Ensure frameworks include mechanisms to validate data integrity across pipelines, capturing schema changes, record counts, and column-level validations.
•    Integration: Build seamless integrations with core platform components like Apache Iceberg, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and Argo to enable consistent processing across batch and streaming workloads.
•    Workflow Orchestration: Develop metadata-driven workflow orchestration frameworks to enable easy configuration and deployment of ETL processes.
•    Reliability: Build frameworks with fail-safe mechanisms to handle errors and ensure reliability in pipeline execution.
•    Compliance: Ensure frameworks adhere to governance policies and regulatory requirements

Key Responsibilities

Business

•    Enablement: Empower data engineers and analysts with user-friendly, metadata-driven frameworks to accelerate development and ensure consistency.
•    Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with domain and platform teams to ensure frameworks address key business and technical requirements.

People & Talent 

•    Collaboration: Work closely with platform and data engineers to ensure frameworks align with infrastructure capabilities and operational requirements.
•    Skill Sharing: Provide technical documentation and training to engineers and analysts using the frameworks.

Governance
•    Compliance & Regulatory Adherence: Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements, including data sovereignty, privacy, and resilience standards.
•    Data Governance & Quality: Implement data governance policies implementation to maintain data quality, integrity, accuracy, and consistency across the platform. Implement monitoring tools to proactively address data quality issues.

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.

Skills and Experience

Key stakeholders
•    Rest of Data & Analytics team
•    WRB/CIB/GF Architecture teams
•    Business and Functions Data & Analytics Team

Other Responsibilities
•    Embrace and practise SCB’s brand promise of Here for Good and corporate values
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
•    Responsible for building a culture of good conduct

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.
• Expertise in Python, Java, with a focus on building reusable frameworks.
• Experience with metadata-driven framework design for ETL, workflow orchestration, and data specifications.
• Proficiency in data quality and integrity tools like Great Expectations or similar solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, and orchestration tools like Airflow or Argo.
• Familiarity with governance tools like Apache Ranger,  OpenLineage, and DataHub.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

About our Transformation, Technology & Operations Team

Our Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.