Sr. Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech (PL/SQL Developer)

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Oracle Database Engineer with a minimum of 8+ years of hands-on Oracle Database development experience to support and enhance strategic Wealth Lending platforms. The role is primarily database-focused, covering complex Oracle SQL and PL/SQL development, performance engineering, data integrity, technical troubleshooting, and solution delivery. Working knowledge of Java backend technologies is required to support effective analysis and collaboration across database, application, and integration layers.

Banking and Wealth Lending experience is strongly preferred. Relevant functional exposure may include:

• Wealth lending products and customer servicing processes.
• Loan origination, approval, booking, disbursement, repayment, and lifecycle servicing.
• Credit assessment, limits, interest calculations, fees, and repayment schedules.
• Collateral, security, and relationship-based lending concepts.
• Customer, account, facility, and transaction data used across lending platforms.
• Banking security, auditability, regulatory controls, data retention, and operational risk requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, implement, and maintain Oracle database solutions supporting Wealth Lending platforms and related lending capabilities.
• Develop and enhance complex SQL, PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Views, Materialized Views, and data-processing components.
• Translate business and technical requirements into reliable, secure, scalable, and maintainable database solutions.
• Analyse SQL execution plans, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement query, indexing, database-object, and processing improvements.
• Investigate complex system issues across database, Java application, interface, and integration layers, and document root causes and corrective actions.
• Improve application stability, database efficiency, transaction throughput, batch performance, and response times through proactive engineering.
• Collaborate with Java backend engineers to assess JDBC usage, connection management, transaction boundaries, and database interaction patterns.
• Participate in solution design, impact assessment, code review, testing, release readiness, implementation, and post-deployment validation.
• Develop and execute unit test plans, maintain evidence, and ensure solutions comply with approved specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare technical documentation covering database design, data flows, implementation decisions, deployment steps, and operational considerations.
• Follow applicable bank engineering standards, secure coding practices, change governance, audit controls, and Agile delivery practices.
• Contribute to modernization, automation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives across Wealth Lending platforms.

Skills and Experience

Must Have

• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL development skills, including Packages, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Views, Materialized Views, and complex data-processing logic.
• Strong expertise in query optimization, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, database performance tuning, and high-volume transaction processing.
• Solid understanding of Oracle database design, data modelling, normalization, transaction management, locking, concurrency, and data integrity controls.
• Experience analysing and resolving complex technical issues across database and application layers, including root cause analysis and preventive improvement.
• Experience with Oracle diagnostic and performance tools such as Explain Plan, AWR, and ASH.
• Knowledge of Java backend applications, JDBC, connection pooling, and database interaction patterns used by Java services.
• Experience working with Linux or Unix environments and basic shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience across the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, unit testing, integration, release, and technical documentation.
• Experience collaborating with application engineers, database administrators, architects, integration teams, testing teams, and business stakeholders.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain database designs and technical findings clearly.

Nice to Have

• Java and Spring Boot development exposure, with the ability to understand and make limited changes to backend components.
• Experience with REST APIs, SOAP services, JPA or Hibernate, and microservices-based applications.
• Experience with IBM MQ, JMS, Kafka, queues, topics, or enterprise integration platforms.
• Knowledge of Git, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational database technologies.
• Experience with Oracle partitioning, batch-processing optimization, database monitoring, and capacity considerations.
• Experience delivering within Agile methodologies and contributing to continuous engineering improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of hands-on Oracle Database development experience in enterprise-grade applications.

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.