Data Modeller / Semantic Data Modeller / Ontology Engineer / Taxonomy/Metadata Specialist / Data Governance (Business Glossary/Metadata) Specialist

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

 

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

 

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Data Modeller to help shape how HSBC defines, organises and connects business terms across the Group. You’ll build high-quality glossaries, taxonomies and ontologies that create a shared semantic layer - so our data can be understood consistently and used by AI to answer questions across teams, faster and with more confidence.

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role you’ll:

• Drive high-quality content within the HSBC Business Information Model (HBIM), with a focus on the Group Business Glossary, Taxonomy of Business Terms, and Group Data Categories (high-level groupings of terms)

• Curate and maintain coherent taxonomies and authoritative definitions, ensuring business terms are clear, consistent, unambiguous, and organised into navigable hierarchies and relationships

• Support the Group ownership operating model by enabling a framework where the business owns the terms, while you provide the modelling expertise, standards, and governance to keep content high quality and reusable

• “Join the dots” across teams/domains to help build a shared semantic layer that supports cross-boundary understanding and consistency

• Contribute to ontology development (the layer between taxonomies) to enable AI to query and reason across multiple teams, products and datasets - turning terminology into a connected, machine-interpretable knowledge layer

• Apply industry standards and components to strengthen semantic consistency and interoperability (e.g., SKOS, PROV-O, DCAT, OWL Time, ORG, Dublin Core; awareness of FIBO/BIAN)

• Embrace AI-enabled ways of working to accelerate modelling, metadata management and quality - using modern tooling to help HSBC make better, faster decisions from our data

• Engage stakeholders confidently, translating semantic concepts for technical and non-technical audiences, and contributing to forums and working groups

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in business glossary curation, taxonomy design, and/or ontology modelling, with a clear understanding of how these enable AI and data interoperability

• Strong data analysis capability and attention to detail, able to deliver in a fast-paced environment

• Confidence working in an operating model where the business owns definitions, and you partner to ensure quality, consistency, and adoption

• Practical experience with modelling and metadata practices; Collibra experience is useful but not essential (tooling matters less than the modelling fundamentals)

• Exposure to APIs and automation/integration thinking; some hands-on Python experience (AI-assisted development is welcomed)

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain semantic modelling concepts clearly

• A genuine interest in cutting-edge tooling and AI for Data & Tech, leveraging HSBC’s owned data to improve decision-making speed and quality

• Financial Services experience is beneficial

 

Opening up a world of opportunity