Job Summary

We are looking for a candidate for providing application support for the bank’s strategic ecommerce FX platform who can work with business and meet their (trading and sales) expectations. The candidate should have prior front office experience supporting similar applications and have strong technical and communication skills. The candidate should be adept in prioritizing and judging the nature of the issues and be able to context switch between issues and address and resolve them.

Key Responsibilities

• BAU Application support for the Financial markets Ecommerce business for Fixed Income Products
• Working closely with Trading and Sales Desks to support Foreign Exchange ecommerce platform
• Drive high severity incidents and conclude to resolution
• Perform root cause analysis and problem management effectively through engagement of multiple teams.
• Liaising with multiple teams within and outside the bank to resolve key production impacting issues
• Coordination and implementation of release deployments and major infrastructure delivery
• Continuously look for opportunities to increase efficiency within the team
• Put forward ideas to improve automation and/or efficiency, and own through to implementation
• Drive best practices within the wider production support team
• Own and define roadmap for Monitoring and automation requirements of the platform
• Operational Risk Management.
• Participate and strengthen the Disaster Recovery/BCM drills
• Performance/stability reviews/improvements
• Adhere to Change Control and Fault Reporting Procedures
• Participate in weekend on-call and public holiday support rot
• Technology powers Standard Chartered Bank's vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative and efficient technology solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders; we will improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.   

Skills and Experience

• Shell Scripting    
• Demonstrated competence/knowledge of Unix/Linux.   
• Configuration management & deployment tooling (ideally Ansible)   
• Docker   
• RDMBS   
• MYSQL   
• ELK Stack   
• Git/Bitbucket   
• Python, Django, HTML5, CSS & JavaScript   
• Azure DevOps   
• Data Conversion and Reporting     
• Financial Markets product knowledge    
• Electronic trading/pricing systems    
• UNIX    
• Relational databases    
• Time-series databases    
• Computer networking    

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

• Knowledge and experience with Fixed Income products including Foreign Exchange (FX) cash, non-deliverable forwards, precious metals, commodities, bonds, and derivatives.

• Working knowledge of Front Office system interfaces and message formats.

• Specific knowledge of ION Marketview, ITRS Geneos, and/or KDB would be a plus.

• Knowledge of the ITIL model of Incident, Problem, Change, and Request management. 

• Familiarity with ServiceNow

• A sound understanding of the following technologies:

  • Operating systems: UNIX (Linux), Windows

  • Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server

  • Middleware: IBM MQ Series

  • Knowledge for FIX protocol. 

  • Networks: TCP/IP, SSH, routers, load balancers, common network protocols

  • Productivity tools: MS Office

  • Monitoring: ITRS Geneos

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 ter

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 109,900 USD to 164,840 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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