Role Overview:
As a Quantexa Data Engineer at Standard Chartered, you will be entrusted with the crucial responsibility of designing and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines that underpin critical business insights and operational efficiencies. Leveraging your expertise in big data technologies and strategic architecture design principles, you will assemble complex data sets aligned with both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring these facilitate actionable analytics across various business domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy: Apply strategic architectural standards to construct optimal data pipelines that support diverse business intelligence and reporting needs.
• Business Analytics: Collaborate with analytics teams to develop tools that transform raw data into meaningful insights which enhance decision-making and liquidity management.
• Process Improvements: Continuously identify opportunities to automate manual tasks, optimize data delivery systems, and re-engineer infrastructure to scale effectively with business growth.
• People and Culture: Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and learning within your teams by setting a strong example and fostering skill development aligned with evolving technologies and bank-wide initiatives.
• Risk Management: Engage actively in identifying and mitigating risks associated with data quality and system reliability, ensuring controls are effectively implemented based on financial data insights.
• Governance: Oversee adherence to governance frameworks, ensuring processes, policies, and controls meet regulatory expectations and uphold data integrity.
• Regulatory and Conduct Compliance: Embody and communicate the highest ethical standards and compliance with regulatory requirements, acting as a role model for business conduct and responsible data management.
• Support and Maintenance: Provide ongoing production support and swiftly respond to incidents, audit findings, and risk issues to sustain platform availability and compliance.

This role demands a proactive and meticulous approach to not only deliver technical solutions but also to ensure quality, security, and alignment with Standard Chartered's mission and compliance standards.

Qualifications and Technical Expertise:

We seek a seasoned Quantexa Certified Data Engineer with a minimum of 4 years' hands-on experience in building and managing data solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem utilizing Spark and Scala. Your proficiency in cloud-managed container platforms such as AWS EKS and Azure AKS, alongside microservices architecture deployed on Kubernetes, is essential for seamlessly integrating modern data engineering practices.

• Expertise in Spark and Scala for complex data processing tasks.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, specifically AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience building and maintaining Microservices, with knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform is advantageous.
• Robust knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem and related components.
• Familiarity with search and analytics engines such as ElasticSearch, and relational databases like PostgreSQL.
• Domain experience in Trade Risk and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes is highly valued.
• Proficiency with both traditional ETL and modern analytics pipeline methodologies.

Desirable Enhancements:

Experience or training in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques is appreciated but not mandatory, providing a pathway for leveraging advanced analytics within the banking environment.

Holding active certification as a Quantexa Data Engineer demonstrates a commitment to maintaining expertise in data engineering tools and techniques aligned with industry standards.

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.