Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
• Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
• Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, energy and enthusiasm

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be the part of a team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the mission!

• Build services with a framework and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions - optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control
• Develop reliable connectivity with numerous bank systems in an agile delivery method
• Design, develop and maintain solutions that stretch from databases via solace to react/openfin user interfaces
• Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
• Provide Production L3 support as required
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions - deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role
• The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced developer in building critical distributed compute solutions in the Financial Markets Risk domain. Knowledge of and exposure to equity and credit products would be essential. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

People & Talent

• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
• Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
• Strong analytical skills.
• A Bachelor\'s degree in a numerate subject (e.g. science or engineering degree).
• Maintain high productivity in a fast-paced environment showing effective prioritization skills.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Technical Knowledge
• Excellent Java knowledge and experience in developing scalable, multi-threaded applications.
• Experience of developing microservice in Java & Spring boot applications
• Experience of developing 12 factor apps.
• Good knowledge of dev ops tools like Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, Ansible, Artifactory, and UpGuard
• Good understanding of ELK stack.
• 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
• Must have at least 6 years of hands on experience working as Developer.

Risk Management

• Should adhere to SCB standards of Risk Managements

Governance

• Should adhere to SCB standards of Governance

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 the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\'s Conduct Principles. Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• SCB business and project specific stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
• Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
• Do the right thing: Be brave, be the change; Think client; Live with integrity
• Never Settle: Continuously improve and innovate; Simplify; Learn from your successes and failures
• Better together: See more in others; How can I help? Build for the long term

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years\' experience in designing, developing mission critical systems in java as the primary language
• In-depth core Java knowledge
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, preferably equities or credit
• Technical knowledge in a no-SQL / doc / columnar DB such as mongoDB, kdb, shell scripts in Linux/Unix environment and or windows-based environments
• Understanding of what is required to deliver safe and fast electronic trading
• Experience in all or some of these: hazelcast, zookeeper, google guice, solace, gprc ..
• Understanding and demonstrable experience of modern architecture/designs - micro-services/API-first development/high-throughput/event-driven/agent-based system, compositional frameworks
• Knowledge and practical experience in modern dev-ops - CI/CD Build and Static Analysis tools

Delivery

• Ability to think "Product/platform" with a strong alignment with expected business outcomes/journeys
• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Ability to scope minimum viable functionalities for quick and iterative/incremental deliveries - this is a must for the candidate
• Understanding of software development lifecycle
• Experienced in Agile/Scrum-Kanban and related tools - JIRA, Confluence

Other desirable skills/knowledge

• Some very basic knowledge of UI concepts - javascript /html5 /openfin /react /typescript

Soft skills

• Fluent in Business Communication (speaking and writing)
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results
• Good team spirit
• Extreme curiousness
• This is a very demanding role which requires a start-up/entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work fast, efficiently, under pressure on multiple deliveries

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java, Java 8
• Spring Boot Microservices, REST API, GRPC
• Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, Ansible, Artifactory, and UpGuard
• OpenShift, Kubernetes, Public cloud
• SOLACE, Kafka
• Spring, Hibernate, and Messaging middleware
• Problem solver - Analytical Skills

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 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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