Mgr, Development

Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE AND THE TEAM:SABRE is Standard Chartereds Analytics Booking and Risk Engine and is the strategic risk and PnL platform for Financial Markets. The development team is a world class technology group in Standard Chartered bank to provide technical solutions to support thebanks Financial Markets business as well as support requirements from other projects with a wider scope such as regulatory books of work. We bring a deep understanding of the market, a scientific approach and innovative technologies to bear on the challengesof profitable trading in the worlds highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain. The culture in SABRE is open, intellectual and fun. Learningopportunities are plentiful: organized classes and seminars; freewheeling discussions; intensive one-on-one mentorships. Career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents to pursue. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the SABRE risk platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and faulttolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scaleroll out. The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology with a proven background in delivering high qualitybusiness critical software. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries. In addition, the successful candidate will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortabledealing with the resistance that comes with change. The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders in order to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exacting requirements. The candidateis expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations. he Candidate will have an opportunity to:

• Work closely with the Development Manager, Project Manager and a team of developers to deliver Scala components to internal business users
• Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architectural, system design and programming approach
• Deeply passionate about best-practice software design principles, you will write robust code along with a high-level of test coverage
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Design smart and scalable solutions following the bank standards
• Coordinate with other teams in Technology
• Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions and operational procedures
• Act as the second line of support during production problems.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE: Key Technical Skillset:

• relevant hands on development with investment banking IT experience
• relevant Java development experience working in a performance focused concurrent environment
• experience with Hadoop/Spark/ Scala could be advantageous
• experience of TDD and BDD in a commercial environment
• exposure to continuous build and deployment solutions such as Jenkins
• ability to work within an agile environment delivering software incrementally

Other Preferred Skills

• Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
• Good communication skills in both written and oral English
• Ability to be organized and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
• Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies
• Technical or numerate degree in subjects such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics

Technical skills (Non-essential but beneficial for this role)

• Any data and compute grid experience a plus
• Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus

Domain Knowledge (Non-essential but very beneficial for this role)

• Knowledge of financial instruments and derivatives, trading and risk management, market data, and market risk processes and methodologies
• Understanding of risk measures, risk analysis and reporting
• Knowledge of at least one specific asset class / line of financial instruments

Diversity & Inclusion

• Standard 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.By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People

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