About our Architecture, Technology Solutions and App Development Team

Want to be part of a team that focuses on what we can do instead of what’s already been done? This is your opportunity.  From BlockChain to AWS, deep learning and AI, you’ll work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to decide the different ways you want to grow – whether that’s by gaining diverse skills on a new project or deepening your expertise on innovative tech. Join us and you’ll find diverse paths, projects and people that inspire you to think outside-the-box and change the way people everywhere experience our products and services.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   
 

Job Summary

As a Platform Data Engineer, you’d be working with us to build, deploy, and maintain a modern, automated, cloud-native, continuously delivered, and distributed data platform. This includes the operational relational databases, data pipelines, and supplementary data services which all work in concert to provide the company with accurate, timely, and actionable metrics and insights to grow and improve our business using data and are business critical for many other teams in the company. You may be collaborating with our data engineering team to set up new features and services for the data platform, assisting our data science team to maintain our data services, supporting our product engineering teams to configure and customize our data infrastructure to fit their needs, or pairing with other data engineers to bring to fruition cutting-edge technologies and infrastructure in the data space.

Key Responsibilities

•    Collaborate with our development, product, risk and security, legal and compliance teams in our fast-paced delivery environment.
•    Accountable as System Owner and Asset Owner of data and Kafka platform.
•    Build a modern, secure, efficient and cloud native database, data storage tier and Kafka platform with high resiliency and scalability.
•    Administer and maintain a suitable controls framework that is aligned with industry practices and meets regulatory and compliance requirement.
•    Perform regular assessments of the technology risk landscape, including self-identifying risks and proactively reporting these to Head of Platform.
•    Oversee and administer the cost efficiency of data and Kafka platform.
•    Maintain the data controls documentation. Make recommendations for improvement and ensure processes and procedures are reviewed and updated periodically.
 

Qualifications

People & Talent

• At minimum, 5 years’ experience in IT domain which key focus on database and messaging system management in a cloud environment.
• Experience with AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and Elasticache.
• Kafka is mandatory for this role, including deployment and upgrade. (we missed this point before)
• Excellent practical knowledge with RDBMS, SQL and NoSQL databases, PostgreSQL is a must.
• Excellent knowledge of data sharding, schema and query performance optimisation, data structure tradeoffs, disaster recovery patterns and metrics.

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.