Job Description

Job: Technology
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 19/Aug/2022, 5:08:44 AM
Unposting Date: 21/Sep/2022, 1:29:00 PM

Role Responsibilities
Job Scope The Risk and Compliance Change team require a strong quantitative Lead Business Analyst with background in Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and exposure modelling to lead several initiatives as part of the strategic Traded Credit Risk Programme. These critical projects focus on business and technology deliverables including system upgrades and migrations, risk data and control implementations. In this function, the lead is responsible for high quality analytics requirements produced by the team, testing, training, and user support for various projects focused on Traded Credit Risk. The successful candidate will be an experienced Business Analyst with a focus on CCR or CVA.

• Work with relevant stakeholders including Traded Risk Management, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to deliver a new risk management system and CCR models.
• Become a key person for the implementations of the new risk system and models (simulation, derivatives pricing, IM and VM collateral modelling and aggregation).
• Work with ITO team on the Active Pivot (OLAP) platform to deliver the relevant components for the reporting solution including all risk measures and limit management components and incremental impact of new deals using Monte Carlo simulation.
• Own all measure implementations in Active Pivot including the dynamic collateral modelling under simulation (both IM and VM) and work closely with Model Validation to ensure approval for these models.
• Be an interface between Risk managers, Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and FO teams to collate all requirements and ensuring that these are translated into tangible ITO deliveries.
• Writing business requirements documents that fully and clearly cover the user requirements.
• Planning the required testing ensuring traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Undertaking functional testing of the delivered functionality to ensure it meets the requirements, where required documenting issues and managing to resolution.
• Providing expert support to the business during User Acceptance Testing.
• Providing user training and support for system implementations including performing user verification testing where required.

General Skills

• 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.
• Business Analysis (e.g. gathering user requirements, data analysis).
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing.
• Ability to multi-task and liaise directly with Risk Managers, FM Ops and Finance.
• Familiarity and demonstrates confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Self-starter who can manage timelines, drive/facilitate requirements and communicate with Developers.

Regulatory and 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.

Other Preferred Skills

• Understanding of Financial Markets business.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of Technology Development experience.
• Experience in delivering change in Credit Risk.

Technical Knowledge

• Excellent Java knowledge and experience in developing scalable, multi-threaded applications.
• Experience of developing microservice in Java and Spring boot applications.
• Experience of developing 12 factor apps.
• Good knowledge of dev ops tools like Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, Ansible, Artifactory, and Up Guard.
• Good understanding of ELK stack.
• Basic understanding of Cloud based deployment strategies and tools like OpenShift, Kubernetes, public cloud.
• Knowledge and experience of working on streaming based solution like using Kafka.
• Good understanding of OO design principles and patterns.
• Experience with Spring, Hibernate, and Messaging middleware
• Experience with XML technologies (XML, XSLT, Web Services and JAXB)
• UNIX and Windows development experience.
• Understanding of SQL queries and database objects.
• Any experience with technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka or Elastic Search is a plus.
• Oracle PL / SQL development background, SQL Tuning is a plus
• Scripting programming in Linux shell, Python is a plus.
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java knowledge and experience in developing scalable, multi-threaded applications.
• Developing microservice in Java and Spring boot applications.
• Knowledge of dev ops tools like Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, Ansible, Artifactory, and Up Guard.
• ELK stack knowledge.
• Cloud based deployment strategies and tools like OpenShift, Kubernetes, public cloud.
• Kafka knowledge.
• Understanding of OO design principles and patterns.
• Knowledge of XML technologies (XML, XSLT, Web Services and JAXB).
• Understanding of SQL queries and database objects.

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.

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