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Scala Lead

4 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Standard Chartered Full time

The Role Responsibilities

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. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain.

  • The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the SABRE platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out.
  • 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 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 team members 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 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 re-platforming programme. The system is built on the Cloudera stack, and extensively uses 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 best-practice software design principles, you 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.

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

  • 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 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)

  • 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 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 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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