Lead Development

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Key Responsibilities

• The Standard Chartered Aggregated Liquidity Engine (SCALE) is an innovative platform designed to optimize liquidity management across multiple accounts and currencies. It provides a comprehensive, real-time view of liquidity positions, enabling efficient cash concentration, forecasting, and investment decisions. By leveraging advanced algorithms and integration capabilities, SCALE helps organizations maximize the utilization of their funds, reduce idle cash, and enhance overall financial stability. This powerful tool is essential for treasury teams aiming to achieve superior liquidity control and operational excellence.
• The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the banks Financial Markets business. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful, and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.
• As a senior developer, youll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Bangalore, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.
• As a strong Java developer with strong backend experience (mandatory), you will be expected to hit the ground running delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Bangalore, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.
  
  

Key Attributes

• An excellent Java developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites.
• Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why.
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development, and support of financial markets systems
• Experience with real-time (event-driven) architectures
• Provide second line support
• Domain knowledge in low latency trading systems is a plus
• Some UI Development experience
• Being a full-stack web developer is a plus
  
  

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Minimum 12+ years of development experience preferably full stack with strong backend experience (mandatory)
• Strong java development background with good hands-on experience in data structures and, algorithms and concurrency frameworks
• Sound technical understanding of Micro Services, REST API, JSON, HTTP, MQ
• Experience in Messaging systems like Solace, distributed caching systems like hazel cast, Oracle
• Agile
  
  

Qualifications

Technical skills:

• 12+ years hands on development with investment banking IT experience
• Low latency trading application development a big plus.
• Core Java (essential), Concurrency, Spring
• Strong design and architecture skills
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience in micro-services/REST API and container technologies (preferably OpenShift or Docker)
• Familiar with API development and API gateways like NGNIX or KONG
• Familiar with distributed cache like Hazelcast.
• Experience with messaging systems like ActiveMQ/Solace
• Strong experience with Oracle DB design
• Any UI Development experience is a strong plus preferably Core JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, React, npm/yarn and webpack.
  
  

Functional Skills

• Financial Market domain knowledge especially around low latency Trading / Order Management
• Investment banking is a strong plus
• Fx trading knowledge business is a plus
  
  

Soft Skills

• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Ability to mentor junior team members
• Strong ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous
• Good team spirit
  
  

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 opportunities to 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 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, 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
• 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.
  
  

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