Job Description

Job ID: 40717


Location: Singapore, SG


Area of interest: Technology


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Hybrid Working


Opening date: 9 Oct 2025

JOB SUMMARY

SABRE is Standard Chartered' s 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's 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 need to 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.

An important aspect of the role is second line support in a dynamic and fast-paced front-office environment. The candidate need to be comfortable talking directly with the business to understand the issue and take ownership of the issue to provide a timely and accurate resolution.

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 quality features and enhancements to the 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.

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.

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. Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate

8+ years C#/WPF/.NET development experience building performance critical rich desktop applications 8+ years hands on development within investment banking IT Strong knowledge and experience of working in Agile teams with Agile practices Strong understanding of the software development life cycle Strong problem-solving and analytical skills Strong understanding of technology and the ability to learn new technologies quickly Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders Self-starter that is enthusiastic and proactive Be able to work in a fast-paced front-office environment Be able to prioritize and work on multiple workstreams simultaneously Be able to take ownership of issues and projects, and see them through to delivery Possess good judgement and decision making skills with a pragmatic and common-sense approach to solving problems

Role Specific Technical Competencies

C#/WPF/.NET development of rich desktop applications Multithreaded, concurrent, and asynchronous programming using TPL and Rx MVVM frameworks, preferably Prism Dependency Injection containers, preferably Unity LINQ/Rx with a functional mindset and coding style RESTful APIs and message queues such as ActiveMQ DevExpress, Infragistics, or any other popular WPF component library Object-Oriented Design and Programming (OOD/OOP) NUnit, Moq, TDD, BDD, UI Automation CI/CD Pipelines such as Azure DevOps Agile/Scrum practices Visual Studio and ReSharper

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

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.

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