Job Description

JOB SCOPE

SABRE is Stanchart\xe2\x80\x99s Analytics Booking and Risk Engine and is the strategic risk and PnL platform for Financial Markets. The development team is a world class technology group in Standard Chartered bank to provide technical solutions to support the bank\xe2\x80\x99s Financial Markets business as well as support requirements from other projects with a wider scope such as regulatory books of work. We bring a deep understanding of the market, a scientific approach, and innovative technologies to bear on the challenges of profitable trading in the world\'s highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain. The culture in SABRE is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful: organized classes and seminars; freewheeling discussions; intensive one-on-one mentorships. Career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents to pursue.

As a Developer, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be responsible for delivering quality software to tight timelines. Based in SG and working in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Experienced developers with previous experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of large scale data processing systems built on Oracle.
• Ability to work and liaise directly with the Front Office, Middle Office and various functions
• Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment
• Familiarity with CI/CD and devops
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort with the business
• Functional programming experience a plus
• Interact with the business users to gather the requirements
• Design smart and scalable solutions following the bank standards
• Coordinate with other teams in Technology
• Provide second line support
• Write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why.
• An excellent developer with good software design principles, someone who writes robust code along with accompanying test suites.
• Make sure that all software is incorporated into the CI/CD process in SABRE.
• Be a self starter and be able to quickly grasp and understand existing software.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years hands on development with investment banking IT experience or other technology area
• Strong architectural and engineering background with experience of delivery.
• Strong Java skills
• Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent support of large scale data processing systems
• Familiarity and confidence working in an \xe2\x80\x9cagile\xe2\x80\x9d development environment.
• Someone who can drive / facilitate the requirements and development effort with the business

Functional skills:

• Financial Market domain knowledge, related with FX and IR derivatives is plus
• Experience/familiarity with control processes for FM platforms.
• Investment banking is a strong plus

Soft skills:

• Outstanding problem solving skills
• Proactive, self starter, autonomous
• Good team spirit
• Ability to work under pressure with multiple assignments

Technical Competencies

• 5+ years hands on development with investment banking IT experience or other technology area
• Java 8 (essential streaming, map and reduce functions), Multi-Threading, and Performance tuning in JVM is a plus.
• Common understanding on Data structure and Algorithm
• Java Restful API design and development
• Oracle PL/SQL development background, SQL Tuning is a plus
• Scripting programming in Linux shell is a plus.
• SCRUM and Agile.

Diversity & Inclusion

• Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential

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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