Lead, Development

Job Description

JOB SCOPEThe successful candidate will play an important role in the development of multiple highly visible deliveries with the primary responsibilities around development activities. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for deliveries. The candidate will work closely with the other team members and stakeholders to design and implement strategic solutions. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with developers, project managers, business stakeholders and other technicalexperts across multiple locations. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop new and improve existing functionality.
• Understand and improve if required whole process from requirements gathering to release production release.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONSGeneral Skills:

• Experienced developers with previous experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of large scale data processing systems built on Oracle.
• Ability to work and liaise directly with the Front Office, Middle Office and various functions.
• Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and devops.
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort with the business.

Technical Knowledge

• Java (essential), Multi-Threading is essential.
• Any experience with technologies such as Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hadoop and Spark is a plus.
• Scripting programming in Linux shell, Python is a plus.
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell and Scala, is a plus.

Preferred Domain Knowledge

• Strong relevant hands-on development experience.

Other Preferred Skills

• Understanding of financial markets business - front/middle/back office

Behavioural skills

• Good Team player
• Self starter
• Inquisitive and Diligent
• Approachable
• Reliable

Qualifications

• Ideally degree level in CS, Engineering, Maths or Sciences.

Diversity & InclusionStandard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. Bybuilding an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential. About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 opportunitiesto grow and do better than before. If youre 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 cant wait to see the talents you canbring 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, youll 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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-helptoolkits
• 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 - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an importantstage of our recruitment process.

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