Job Summary

The successful candidate will be a skilled software engineer who is excited about working with a world class team to analysing, designing, developing and delivering solutions built for FM business.
We are looking for forward-thinking, energetic and passionate individuals to be part of a new exciting journey! 

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and execution of the data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the bank’s strategy on data, technology roadmap and business goals.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to develop technology policies, standards, guidelines and best practices for effective data services aligned to the data governance and data management policies, standards and guidelines.
• Identify key data requirements, determine data sources, and design approaches to data integration which aligns with the overall data strategy and roadmap.
• Communicate architectural decisions in a clear, business-relevant manner.
• Work with business and IT team to on development and enforcement of data architecture standards, principles, and best practices to ensure consistency across organization
• Implement process for managing the complete data lifecycle, from acquisition and storage to transformation, archival and deletion that align with the organization’s needs and future scalability requirements.
• Collaborate with regulatory, compliance and audit team to understand and continuously improve our data process.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Lead Data Analyst or similar role in data management.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing data strategy as well as large-scale, enterprise level data systems.
• Expertise in Java or Python with a focus on building reusable and extendable frameworks.
• Expertise in large, complex organisations, ability to manage technical and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Expertise in data visualization tools and techniques.
• Working knowledge of data policy & governance, data dictionaries, data quality governance, best practices for Metadata and data quality maintenance is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of the banking and financial market industry.
• Strong communication, story-telling, and facilitation skills across business and technical audiences.
• Expertise in ClickHouse or Minio is a plus.
• Expertise with AI, LLM including Prompt Engineering, RAG and Agent development is a plus.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Big Data
•    Java or Python
•    SQL/Hive
•    Spark
•    Communication
•    Problem solving
•    System Design 

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.