Java Intraday Risk lead

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Standard Chartered Full time

JOB SCOPE

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.

The successful candidate will be development team and be responsible for the rollout of SABRE to meet Front Office intraday risk requirements focused on the FXO and Commodities trading desks. The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology with a proven background in delivering high quality business critical software. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries. In addition, the successful candidate will have come from leading in a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change.

The candidate will work closely with the other teams and senior stakeholders in order to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exacting requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations. The ability to quickly solve problems and deliver software seamlessly as well as working in a close partnership with the business is a key part of this role.

Key Skills

  • Experience in managing development teams in an agile environment
  • Hands on development with investment banking IT experience
  • Experience of systems that calculate risk and in particular intraday risk experience.
  • Rich Java development experience working in a performance focused concurrent environment
  • Good understanding of risk measures and experience generating risk, ideally across FXO and Commodities
  • Good understanding of distributed computing, any experience of using Cloud computing (esp. AWS) is beneficial
  • Experience of managing stakeholders and team members in multiple locations

Key Roles & Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver Java components to internal business users
  • Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architectural, system design and programming approach
  • Deeply passionate about best-practice software design principles, you and your team 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.

Qualification & Skills

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

Other Preferred Skills

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

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

  • 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 any regulatory initiatives such as FRTB or IBOR transition.

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.

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