Lead Developer, Asset Control IDR

Job Summary

• Ensure the development and deployment of scalable and reliable microservices as per the detailed design and NFRs.
• Attain significant improvements in algorithm efficiency for financial data processing.
• Maintain a rigorous code quality standard by ensuring that 100% of code commits pass static code analysis checks for critical and high issues, adhering to coding standards aimed at high maintainability and scalability.
• Implement performance enhancements in Java applications, achieving benchmarks as set by the NFRs and ensuring full compliance with performance SLAs.
• Maintain alignment with Agile practices and sprint goals throughout the project lifecycle.
• Document progress in the development and optimization of critical algorithms, with goals for scalability and data processing capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the development and deployment of scalable and reliable microservices as per the detailed design and NFRs.
• Attain significant improvements in algorithm efficiency for financial data processing.
• Maintain a rigorous code quality standard by ensuring that 100% of code commits pass static code analysis checks for critical and high issues, adhering to coding standards aimed at high maintainability and scalability.
• Implement performance enhancements in Java applications, achieving benchmarks as set by the NFRs and ensuring full compliance with performance SLAs.
• Maintain alignment with Agile practices and sprint goals throughout the project lifecycle.
• Document progress in the development and optimization of critical algorithms, with goals for scalability and data processing capabilities.

Regulatory & 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, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• CCIB FM

Skills and Experience

• Asset Control
• scripting - unix, perl and python.
• java is good to have
• fluent oral English

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.