Lead Development London, England
Job description
JOB SCOPE
The successful candidate will be the part of a team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the mission!
- Build services with a framework and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions – optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control
- Develop reliable connectivity with numerous bank systems in an agile delivery method
- Design, develop and maintain solutions that stretch from databases via solace to react/openfin user interfaces
- Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
- Provide Production L3 support as required
- Partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions – deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role
The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced developer in building critical distributed compute solutions in the Financial Markets Risk domain. Knowledge of and exposure to equity and credit products would be essential. This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:
Core Qualifications
- Experience in designing, developing mission critical systems in java as the primary language
- In-depth core Java knowledge
- Proven experience in low latency, real-time, scalable systems, garbage collector, queuing, scheduling, complex events processing (CEP)
- Technical knowledge in a no-SQL / doc / columnar DB such as mongoDB, kdb, shell scripts in Linux/Unix environment and or windows-based environments
- Understanding of what is required to deliver safe and fast electronic trading
- Experience in all or some of these: hazelcast, zookeeper, google guice, solace, gprc ..
- Understanding and demonstrable experience of modern architecture/designs – micro-services/API-first development/high-throughput/event-driven/agent-based system, compositional frameworks
- Knowledge and practical experience in modern dev-ops - CI/CD Build and Static Analysis tools
Delivery
- Ability to think “Product/platform” with a strong alignment with expected business outcomes/journeys
- Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Ability to scope minimum viable functionalities for quick and iterative/incremental deliveries – this is a must for the candidate
- Understanding of software development lifecycle
- Experienced in Agile/Scrum-Kanban and related tools – JIRA, Confluence
- Knowledge of bonds electronic markets is a strong plus
Other desirable skills/knowledge:
- Some very basic knowledge of UI concepts – javascript/html5/openfin/react
Soft skills:
- Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
- Outstanding problem-solving skills
- Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results
- Good team spirit
- Extreme curiousness
- This is a very demanding role which requires a start-up/entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work fast, efficiently, under pressure on multiple deliveries
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- High performance / low latency java
- Financial instrument pricing and trading
- Electronic trading
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.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
- 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-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.
- Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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