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.
The candidate will be a natural technology enthusiast with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility, and accountability for critical components, and will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations

Key Responsibilities

•    Design and implement software, translate user stories into functional applications
•    Write clean, efficient, maintainable, and reusable code in Java, following the language’s coding standards and best practices
•    Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
•    Ensure good unit test code coverage and code quality
•    Monitor and fix the issues found in security scans and ensure applications are compliant
•    Support all testing activities including SIT/UAT/regression etc.
•    Prepare for releases and standby to support the releases
•    Perform L3 support on rota and work with Production Support to resolve issues
•    Work with MR architect to discuss system architecture and software designs

Skills and Experience

• Excellent knowledge and hands-on skills in Core Java, JDK 17, GC, collections & streams, threading, latency problems, exceptions, optimisation    
• Solid knowledge and hands-on skills in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Web Services, REST API, gRPC, microservices    
• Spring Data, JDBC & JPA, SQL    
• Spring Rest Template / WebClient, Lombok, Jackson, HTTP    
• Unit testing using JUnit    
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.    
• HTML / CSS / web frontend technologies    
• Maven & Jenkins (or ADO) 
• pipeline    
• Docker and container technologies    

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree 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.