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.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for design and implementation of DevOps that covers
• CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance
• Automated deployment
• Infrastructure management (Physical Servers, VMs, Storage, Database, etc.)
• Obsolescence remediation
• Configuration management
• System logging and monitoring
• Security scanning and issue fix
• Containerization
• Kubernetes deployment
• AWS cloud deployment
• System migration to new infrastructure / deployment platform
• New technology / tool POCs and onboarding
• Communicate with bank's infra teams to raise requests and discuss/fix issues e.g. Unix/Container/AD/DB teams
• Communicate with Central DevOps and other DevOps teams across the bank for knowledge/info/idea exchange
• Champion DevOps innovations by introducing better tools and agile practices

Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Linux Shell, Groovy
• Strong knowledge in Source Control tool of Git, and GitFlow as the branching strategy
• Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, JaCoCo, SonarQube, JIRA, Ansible and Artifactory
• Knowledge in Domain-Driven Design, Microservices Architecture, Micro-Frontend Architecture, REST API, Spring Boot
• Knowledge in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code
• Knowledge in databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
• Knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium etc.
• Knowledge in monitoring, log analysis and dashboard tools such as ELK stack, Splunk, Zipkin, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Knowledge in Authentication and Authorisation frameworks and tools, e.g. Kerberos, SSO, OUD, AD/LDAP, JWT, Spring Security
• Knowledge in Server Management, Networking, Virtualisation/Virtual Machine
• Knowledge in Storage systems e.g. SSD, SAN, NAS, AWS S3, HCP, MinIO
• Knowledge in Containers and Container Platforms e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS
• Knowledge in Big Data technologies e.g. Hadoop, HDFS, Spark
• Knowledge in Cloud Platforms e.g. AWS, Azure

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of software development, engineering or DevOps experience
• Strong experience in modern DevOps technology stack is a must
• Strong experience in container and Kubernetes is a must
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and working in agile teams is a must
• Experience in software development using open source technologies is a plus
• Experience in working with distributed systems is a plus
• Experience in release management is a plus
• Experience in promoting DevOps culture in other organizations 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.