Job Summary

The successful candidate will be a key contributor on a team building our ETD capabilities as we migrate approx. 1/3 of the volume away from legacy platforms. This is a project with high visibility, demanding time-lines, high delivery expectations and needs responsible, mature, motivated developers with a proven track record. We want people driven by the mission who are familiar with front office technology product delivery and requirements. We would expect the successful candidate to consider moving to a permanent position if possible at the appropriate time, if it was a mutual good fit.

•    Be a proactive, self-starting developer who can quickly understand the requirements, technology platform and external integrations and start designing and contributing to the delivery.
•    Liaise with devops and wider team to effectively manage resource usage
•    Apply your experience of financial markets electronic trade capture, booking and full lifecycle to build these features into our platform
•    Work within the ever-evolving framework of Financial Markets specifications and regulations to ensure CAT is using best-in-class technology within the boundaries of approved technologies
•    Build services with an API-first approach and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions – optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control
•    Implement and enforce safe defensive coding, intelligent design, access control, in low-maintenance supportable applications
•    Support database integration/migration (postgres/mongo) caching (hazelcast), communication (solace), security (hashicorp, SSO tokens, Kong integration)
•    Effectively and proactively manage resource usage
•    Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
•    Provide Production L3 support as required, to this delivery and the wider platform. We have users from Asia to New York, and you’ll be part of a global team of developers
•    Face-off and partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions – deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role
•    Question / Challenge anything you see from your peers or the wider squad that isn’t up to standard.

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  The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced developer in designing, building, deploying and supporting critical solutions in the Financial Markets domain. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities 

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.

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CAT team. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; 

Key Responsibilities

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Skills and Experience

Java Development
Financial Markets Front Office Trade lifecycle
Application Security
SDLC / Testing / Delivery
Exchange Traded Derivatives
Distributed Computing

Qualifications

Bsc/BTech/BE equivalent in Computer Science

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.