Job Summary

Market Risk Platform (MRP) is Standard Chartered’s financial risk consolidation, aggregation, and reporting platform for Market Risk. The development team is a world-class technology group within Standard Chartered Bank, providing technical solutions to support the bank’s Financial Markets business and other projects with a broader scope, such as regulatory books of work.

We are seeking a seasoned professional to lead a team of Python developers. The successful candidate will own the end-to-end technical solution implementation and support for the Python-based data transformation and reporting framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide management, technical leadership, and direction to internal development team on the design, development, implementation, and deployment of highly performant, secure, and scalable software.
• As required, participate in core development alongside the team.
• Strictly enforce and maintain adherence to best practices in the area of security, performance and scalability.
• Drive estimation of work, planning, and costing of new projects and initiatives across multiple metrics.
• Assist in evaluation efforts with new and emerging technologies to assess technical fit and risk. Investigate and keep up to date on emerging and cutting-edge technologies, and lead knowledge sharing.
• Drive innovation through out-of-the-box thinking to solve critical business challenges and demands.
• Work with the Senior Architects and Engineering Managers to validate designs, discuss trade-offs and benefits of various approaches, and ensure long-term scalability and performance over time as data volumes and user concurrency grows with product adoption.
• Work with Cloud, Containers and Infra teams to ensure best practices and standards are followed related to infrastructure/hosting, data security, user access management, permissions, monitoring, patching, and logging/auditing.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of software development experience, including 7+ years of experience building enterprise applications using Python.
• At least 5 years of experience leading a team of 5-10 software engineers.
• Experience owning software architecture – architecture, security, supportability, quality, performance, capacity, CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge in Core Python (control structures, arguments, variables, files, date/time, lists, dicts, map, comprehension, generators, lambdas, regexp, classes, modules).
• Good experience in developing, implementing, and managing data processing applications using Python pandas, requests, and json libraries.
• Excellent data analysis skills using Python and SQL
• Experience using relational databases and SQL (such as PostgreSQL or Oracle) and/or OLAP (MDX query language).

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.