Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team as a software developer for the design and development of our EQ booking and life cycle system. 
In this role, you will be responsible for various aspects of the system, including technical leadership, mentoring, gathering requirements, and collaborating with different teams. Your deep knowledge of EQ derivatives products, such as Options, Range Accrual, Equity Swap, and Accumulator, is essential for the success of this role. This is an application currently running in c# and excel, and we are looking to transition it to our main java based technology stack, so experience in both c# and java would be extremely beneficial.

Key Responsibilities

1. System Design and Development:
Lead the design and development of the EQ booking and life cycle system, ensuring its robustness and scalability, with a focus on deep product knowledge of EQ derivatives. This system is being migrated from c# to java as a medium term goal, and you will be instrumental in directing and executing this transition
2. Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide developers to ensure they align with the architecture of the existing system, emphasizing the importance of product knowledge in building the system. 
3. Requirements Gathering with Business Understanding: Collaborate closely with Front Office (FO) and Middle Office (MO) users to gather and define system requirements, using business understanding terminology to ensure that technical solutions align with their needs. 
4. Quant Team Collaboration: Work in tandem with the Quant team to enhance models and seamlessly integrate them with the system, leveraging your product knowledge for better integration.
5. Performance Tuning: Utilize your strong background in performance tuning to ensure the system operates efficiently, meeting the demands of EQ derivatives products. 
6. Practical Decision-Making: Proactively make decisions and suggest practical solutions in the day-to-day Business As Usual (BAU) operations to maintain system functionality and address emerging challenges. 
7. Integration with Other Systems: Develop and integrate with other systems over RESTful APIs and various network protocols to ensure seamless data flow and communication between systems. 
8. Support: Provide initial support to users, addressing technical issues and troubleshooting, and communicate effectively with FO to ensure their requirements are met. 

Skills and Experience

Software Development in c#
Software Development in java
Agile Methodology & Delivery
EQ Derivatives Product Knowledge
Performance Tuning
Communication 

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.