Job Description

The successful candidate will be the part of a team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. You are expected to be an experienced developer in designing, building, deploying and supporting critical solutions in the Financial Markets domain. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities. We want People driven by the mission!

Key Responsibilities

• Be the proactive, leading, constructive developer on a squad with crucial remit within the CAT platform.
• Build services with a framework and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions – optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control.
• Develop scalable real-time low-latency processing solutions in an agile delivery method.
• Design, develop and maintain applications that are used by other development teams and directly by front office users.
• Show ownership and understanding of Front Office / Trading workflows and user characteristics with bond trading experience preferable. 
• Implement safe defensive coding, intelligent design, access control, in supportable applications.
• Support database integration (postgres/mongo) caching (hazelcast), communication (solace), security (hashicorp, SSO tokens, Kong integration).
• Effectively and proactively manage resource usage.
• Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance.
• Provide Production L3 support as required.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions – deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role.

Skills and Experience

• At least 10 years experience designing, developing with focus on Credit applications.
• Bsc/BTech/BE equivalent in Computer Science.
• Interaction with Back End services and data processing.
• Understanding of design patterns to build reusable, maintainable applications.
• Experience in all or some of these: Solace, React, Java, gRPC.
• Understanding and demonstrable experience of modern architecture/designs – micro-services/API-first development/high-throughput/event-driven/agent-based system, compositional frameworks.
• Knowledge and practical experience in modern dev-ops - CI/CD Build and Static Analysis tools.
• Desirable: understanding of swing / programmatic GUI construction, web sockets, web workers.
• Experience in version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Role specific technical skills and competencies: Data Processing, Application Security, SDLC / Testing / Delivery, Database integration, Networked Application development. 

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.