Job Summary

The Backend Developer is a key member of Trade IT Development Team and responsible for translating User Stories into high quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. As a member of the Trade IT development team the post holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme.

Key Responsibilities

•    Risk Management: Ensure all activity adheres to the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, relevant policies, and standards, with a specific focus on ensuring an effective framework for the management of operational risks as they pertain to the role.
•    Processes: The role holder will need to support the establishment and documentation of all processes and effective controls for the hub team in accordance with the broader stress testing team
•    Governance: Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which SCB operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Deliver ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge colleagues effectively or escalate appropriately; and willingness to work in an open and cooperative manner with all.
•    Regulatory & Business Conduct: Display exemplary conduct and live by the SCB’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.

Business
•    Stress Testing, as part of Finance, is an independent group function responsible for projecting the financials and capital/liquidity ratios of the entity in question given certain assumptions about Bank’s policies and economic variables. The function plays a critical role in strategic business, regulatory and infrastructure initiatives which forms the Bank’s future.
•    Internal Stress Tests: Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP), Management Stress Tests (MST) etc.
•    Regulatory Stress Tests: HKMA SDST, MAS Stress Test, BOE Stress Test, BOT Stress Test, Reverse Stress Tests etc.
•    Climate Risk Stress Tests: A new area of analysis focussing on the impact of climate change on Banking industry
•    Driving ‘Digitisation’: Responsible for designing, prototyping, and implementing strategic change initiatives to increase business efficiency of stress testing processes.
•    The unit is Performance Driven with an aptitude to meet the expectations of Senior Management & Regulators by living the values of the organization in Doing the Right Thing and Better Together. The Never Settle attitude makes this unit unique in its approach to always be a Future-Fit organization

Risk Management
•    Ensure all activity adheres to the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, relevant policies and standards, with a specific focus on ensuring an effective framework for the management of operational risks as they pertain to the role.  
•    The Backend Developer is a key member of Trade IT Development Team and responsible for translating User Stories into high quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. As a member of the Trade IT development team the post holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme.

Processes
Ability to learn the development process adapted in organisation and team and adhere to it.

People & Talent 
Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration of other development team members to meet the development timelines. 

Risk Management
Ability to write the Secure code which in turn compromises the organisation risk towards vulnerabilities  

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
•    Business and Operations (Product Owners)
•    Chapter Leads
•    Hive Leads
•    Trade IT Team
•    Interface IT Teams
•    Technology Services Teams
•    Production Support Teams

Key stakeholders
•    Stress Testing Team
•    Enterprise Risk Management members
•    Key Finance & Risk colleagues
•    Business leadership
•    Stress Testing Transformation Programme Team
•    Key operations and technology partners / vendors

Qualifications

•    Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
•    JAVA Certification preferred

Advanced Proficiency in: 
•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Technical Stack (Backend): Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML, 
•    Technical Tools: Confluence/ADO, Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA
•    Agile development experience
•    Experience with design and development of REST API platform using Apigee/APIM, converting web services from SOAP to REST
•    Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
•    Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications 
•    Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
•    Experience with Unix, Linux Operating Systems 
•    Experience with Integration frameworks (e.g., Mule, Camel) desirable

Optional Skills: 
•    Knowledge on Container/Cloud platforms like Kubernetes/Docker, AWS/Azure
•    Experience in event driven architectures (CQRS and SAGA patterns) / Axon framework.

Skills and Experience

•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Backend Tech Stack such as Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML
•    Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA
•    Design and development of REST API platform using Apigee/APIM, converting web services from SOAP to REST
•    Agile development
•    Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
•    Experience with Unix, Linux Operating Systems 

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.