Job Summary

Market Risk Platform (MRP) is Standard Chartered’s financial risk consolidation, aggregation, and reporting platform for Market Risk. The development team aims to provide technical solutions to support the bank’s Financial Markets business as well as support requirements from other projects with a wider scope such as regulatory books of work.
We bring a deep understanding of the market, a scientific approach, and innovative technologies to bear on the challenges of profitable trading in the world's highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain. The culture in MRP is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful: organized classes and seminars; freewheeling discussions; intensive one-on-one mentorships. Career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents to pursue.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programs with the primary responsibilities around building components within the MRP platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Developer with expertise in OLAP Database like ClickHouse, RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL last but not the least NoSQL databases (MongoDB, etc.) to manage and optimize our data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of database architecture, entity-relationship modeling, and experience scaling data-intensive applications. The role requires both hands-on development and strategic oversight to ensure the performance, security, and scalability of our database systems

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Database Design & Development

• Architect, design, and develop scalable and optimized database solutions across ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Implement entity-relationship modelling, normalization, indexing, and partitioning strategies for optimal database performance.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain complex SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, and views.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and security across multiple database environments.

Performance Optimization & Scaling

• Analyze and optimize slow queries and database bottlenecks for high-performance data processing.
• Design and implement sharding, partitioning, and indexing strategies to enhance query performance.
• Optimize database performance for high-throughput and low-latency applications.
• Work on scaling strategies for data-intensive applications, ensuring databases can handle large-scale transactions and analytics workloads.

Database Administration & Maintenance

• Manage and maintain existing databases (ClickHouse, PostgreSQL etc.), ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for databases.
• Monitor database health, replication, and failover mechanisms.
• Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to optimize database deployment and performance in cloud and on-prem environments.

Data Security & Compliance

• Implement role-based access controls (RBAC), encryption, and security best practices for data protection.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and data governance policies.
•     Define and enforce database access policies to prevent unauthorized data access.

Collaboration & Cross-Team Support

• Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to integrate databases into applications and pipelines.
• Work with business and analytics teams to support data-driven decision-making.

Automation & Tooling

• Automate database monitoring, indexing, and maintenance tasks using scripts and database automation tools.
• Evaluate and implement new database technologies based on business needs.

Skills and Experience

• Experience working with real-time analytics platforms and data warehouses.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Spark, or other streaming data technologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for database changes and version control.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in database development and administration with expertise in ClickHouse
• Strong expertise in SQL development, query optimization, indexing, and database tuning.
• Deep understanding of entity-relationship modelling and normalization principles.
• Experience with high-volume, high-throughput database systems.
• Knowledge of data partitioning, replication, and sharding techniques.
• Strong experience with ETL processes and data migration between relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud-based databases (AWS RDS, Google Cloud, Azure DBs, etc.).
• Understanding of database security, role-based access, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with containerized database deployments using Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) for automation is a plus.

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.