Job Description

Job: Technology

Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Permanent

Posting Date: 16/Feb/2023, 5:40:21 AM

Unposting Date: Ongoing

Role Responsibilities

• 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 key role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the SABRE Risk & PL 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 technology enthusiast with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility, and accountability for critical components, and will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change. 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.
• Work closely with the Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver Java components 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.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• SABRE Dev and Management team

Our Ideal Candidate

• 3+ years of experience in 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.
• Good communication skills in both written and oral.
• 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.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong Haskell or Java skills
• Data structure and Algorithm
• Scripting programming in Linux shell
• SCRUM and Agile
• Financial Market domain knowledge, related with FX and IR derivatives
• Experience with control processes for FM platforms

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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Additional Information

Career Level

Not Specified

Qualification

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Job Type

Full-Time

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Company Overview

Standard Chartered is a leading international bank, with more than a 150-year history in some of the world\'s most dynamic markets. We bank the people and companies driving investment, trade and the creation of wealth across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

With more than 1,100 branches and offices in 68 countries, we offer exciting and challenging international career opportunities.

Additional Company Information

Registration No.

201224747C

Company Size

More than 5000 Employees

Average Processing Time

30 days

Industry

Banking / Financial Services

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