Lead, Development - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role Responsibilities

The role is the development lead for the strategic Trade Lake system within SABRE, supporting MifiD regulatory requirements, and expanding the system as part of the FM replatforming programme. The system is built on the Cloudera stack, and extensivelyuses HBase, Kafka and Spark to process, store and support data analytics on trade data from across the organization.

Key Technical Skills:

Experienced in Scala development in a commercial environment
Experience with Hadoop/Spark/HBase/Cloudera Data Platform is essential
Hands on development with any investment banking IT experience being beneficial
Good knowledge of Java development experience working in a performance focused concurrent environment

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Work closely with the Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver Scala components to internal business users
Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architectural, system design and programming approach
Deeply passionate about bestpractice software design principles, you will write robust code along with a highlevel of test coverage
Selfstarter 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.

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.

Bybuilding an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

Development Tools and Methodologies
Experience of TDD and BDD in a commercial environment
Exposure to continuous build and deployment solutions such as Jenkins
Able to work within an agile environment delivering software incrementally

Role Specific Competencies:

Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
Good communication skills in both written and oral English
Ability to be organized and multitask 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

Technical skills (Non-essential but beneficial for this role)

Any data and compute grid experience a plus
Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus

Domain Knowledge (Non-essential but very beneficial for this role)

Knowledge of financial instruments and derivatives, trading and risk management, market data, and market risk processes and methodologies
Understanding of risk measures, risk analysis and reporting
Knowledge of at least one specific asset class / line of financial instruments.

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 opportunitiesto 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 canbring 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:
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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,