Lead Software Engineer

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Learning & development opportunities

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank's SABRE analytics team invites an experienced Java software engineer to join a high-performance, investment-banking IT environment. You will develop features for the bank's strategic risk and PnL engine, delivering reliable software with strong test coverage and scalable designs.

The role offers flexible working patterns around home and office locations, exposure to modern data tools, and opportunities to collaborate with global technologists.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on development with investment banking IT experience.
• Java development in a performance-focused concurrent environment.
• Experience with TDD and BDD in a commercial setting.
• Exposure to Azure DevOps and continuous integration/delivery.
• Ability to work in an agile environment delivering software incrementally.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics.
• Cultural sensitivity and ability to work with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality features and enhancements to internal business users.
• Apply systematic architectural, design and programming approaches.
• Write robust code with high test coverage following best-practice principles.
• Drive and facilitate requirements and development effort.
• Design scalable solutions following bank standards.
• Coordinate with other Technology teams.
• Develop and maintain system documentation.
• Provide second-line production support.

Skills

Java

TDD/BDD

Azure DevOps

Agile methodologies

Performance optimization

Concurrency

Analytical skills

Education

Technical or numerate degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Economics

Tools

ClickHouse

Apache Spark

Job description

Job Summary

SABRE is Standard Chartered’s 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 the bank’s 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 challenges of profitable trading in the world's 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. Learning opportunities 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.

Diversity and 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver quality features and enhancements to the 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.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years hands on development with investment banking IT experience
• Java development experience working in a performance focused concurrent environment
• Experience of TDD and BDD in a commercial environment
• Exposure to continuous build and deployment solutions such as Azure DevOps
• Able to work within an agile environment delivering software incrementally
• Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to be organised 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
• Should have a technical or numerate degree in subjects such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Good understanding of JVM internals including but not limited to concurrency, garbage collections, nio, async programming
• Experience with analytical databases like Clickhouse is a plus
• Experience with Apache Spark is useful but not essential
• Knowledge of Financial Markets domain would be a great advantage

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.

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