Quantitative Developer

Job Summary

• We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.  To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit.  It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, here for good.  

About the Team

• The FM Digital Channels (aka Blade) team is responsible for cross-product transactional pricing of derivatives within Standard Chartered. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.
• In particular, we are looking for someone to join our team of Haskell developers in London to develop the pricing backend for the Blade team. You will work alongside business stakeholders and other teams in Financial Markets to implement and frequently deploy new functionality that will be used in the bank’s mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills, extensive experience with applying functional programming, the ability to learn about the business domain, and the ability to interact well with business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

As a senior developer, you’ll be driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in London, you will collaborate in a dynamic global team with fellow technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

Key Attributes

• An excellent Haskell developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites
  • We are willing to consider proficiency in other functional languages like OCaml or Scala as well, but knowledge of Haskell is a plus.
• Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• A team player, capable of engaging with other teams
• Knowledge and experience of financial markets systems is a plus

 

Functional skills:

• Financial Market domain knowledge
• Investment banking is a strong plus
• Derivatives knowledge is a plus
• e-trading technology experience is a plus

Soft skills:

• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Strong ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous
• Good team spirit

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
Head of Development, Head of Programme Delivery, Squad Technical Leads, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, QA Leads, Business Product Owners, other Engineering Managers, Platform Architect.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in XXXX [country / business unit / team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); 

Technical skills:

• Demonstrable experience with software development using functional programming languages, preferably Haskell
• Experience in industry delivering software solutions, preferably using functional programming languages.
• MSc or PhD in Computing Science or another STEM field is preferable, but optional in the presence of extensive experience in functional programming
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn new theory and skills quickly
• Experience with using Linux environments
• Experience with developing server-side software
• Willingness to learn about Financial Markets and derivative products
• Willingness to learn about Cloud computing

Strategy
Contribute to the definition of the team’s technical roadmap and ensure the adherence to it 

Business
Take ownership of the of design and delivery of assigned features. Take ownership for and drive the delivery of platform-wide initiatives and issue remediations. 

Processes
Contribute to and participate in the team’s process improvements initiatives. 

People & Talent
Participate in hiring, engage in peer coaching.

Risk Management
According to Global and FM Technology risk management frameworks 

Governance
According to Global and FM Technology governance frameworks
 

Skills and Experience

• SDLC incl. Agile & Waterfall
• People Management
• Application Development Experience (past or current)
• Financial markets domain knowledge
• Architecture and System Design
• Haskell or other similar functional programming language
   

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     MSc or PhD in Computing Science or another STEM field is preferable, but optional in the presence of extensive experience in functional programming
• LANGUAGES     Demonstrable experience with software development using functional programming languages, preferably Haskell

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.