Job Description

Role Responsibilities

SABRE is Standard Chartered\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.

The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the SABRE risk platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out.

The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology with a proven background in delivering high quality business critical software. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries. In addition, the successful candidate will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change.

The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders in order to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exacting requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver Java based software solutions to internal business users

• Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architectural, system design and programming approach

• Deeply passionate about best-practice software design principles, you will write robust code along with a high-level of test coverage

• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort

• Design smart and scalable solutions following the bank standards

• Coordinate with other teams in Technology

• Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions and operational procedures

• Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Qualification & Skills

Development Tools and Methodologies

• Experience of TDD and BDD in a commercial environment
• Exposure to continuous build and deployment solutions such as Jenkins
• Able to work within an agile environment delivering software incrementally

Other Preferred Skills

• Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
• Ability to be organised and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
• Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies
• Should have a technical or numerate degree in subjects such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics

Technical skills (Non-essential but beneficial for this role)

• Any data and compute grid experience a plus
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus

Domain Knowledge (Non-essential but very beneficial for this role)

• Knowledge of financial instruments and derivatives, trading and risk management, market data, and market risk processes and methodologies
• Understanding of risk measures, risk analysis and reporting
• Knowledge of at least one specific asset class / line of financial instruments or Derivatives business is a plus
• Financial Market domain risk knowledge

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build strong engineering culture.
• Foster growth of junior team members.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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.
• Lead the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]

Key stakeholders

• Development Manager
• Project Manager
• Internal Business Users (Primarily in FM)

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years hands on Java development experience with 5+ years within banking & financial industry
• Experience with caching frameworks like hazelcast, apache ignite could be advantageous
• Advanced working knowledge of Java, Scala and the JVM.
• Experience with mainstream SQL and Non-SQL databases could be advantageous
• Understanding of JavaScript (ES6), React.js, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, SASS
• Knowledge of open source solutions and trending technologies
• Exposure to broader web technologies such as Restful API\xe2\x80\x99s
• Strong understanding of web standards, security, accessibility, browser compatibility,
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a strong plus.
• Experience with one of SCRUM/Kanban/XP/Lean.
• Any experience with Big data technologies could be advantageous

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Software Development
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Application Development Tools
• Agile Development
• Requirements Analysis

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:

\xc2\xb7 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

\xc2\xb7 Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

\xc2\xb7 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.

\xc2\xb7 Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations

\xc2\xb7 Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum

\xc2\xb7 Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns

\xc2\xb7 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

\xc2\xb7 A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning

\xc2\xb7 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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