Job Summary
Technology power’s Standard Chartered Bank's vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative and efficient technology solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders; we will improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.
We are looking for a candidate for providing application support for the bank’s strategic ecommerce FX and Fixed Income platform who can work with business and meet their (trading and sales) expectations. The candidate should have prior front office experience supporting similar applications and have strong technical and communication skills. The candidate should be adept in prioritizing and judging the nature of the issues and be able to context switch between issues and address and resolve them.
Key Responsibilities
• BAU Application support for the financial markets Ecommerce business Products.
• Working closely with Trading and Sales Desks to support Foreign Exchange ecommerce platform
• Drive high severity incidents and conclude to resolution
• Perform root cause analysis and problem management effectively through engagement of multiple teams
• Liaising with multiple teams within and outside the bank to resolve key production impacting issues
• Coordination and implementation of release deployments and major infrastructure delivery
• Continuously look for opportunities to increase efficiency within the team
• Put forward ideas to improve automation and/or efficiency, and own through to implementation
• Drive best practices within the wider production support team
• Own and define roadmap for Monitoring and automation requirements of the platform
• Operational Risk Management.
• Participate and strengthen the Disaster Recovery/BCM drills
• Performance/stability reviews/improvements
• Adhere to Change Control and Fault Reporting Procedures
• Participate in weekend on-call and public holiday support rota
Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation of technical skills and financial market knowledge critical to delivering excellence in this role:
- Proficient in Linux command-line operations with the ability to troubleshoot and automate routine tasks effectively.
- Strong scripting skills to develop automation solutions and custom tools that enhance support efficiency.
- Experience working with Oracle SQL for querying databases and analyzing application data to diagnose issues.
- In-depth understanding of the FIX Protocol, essential for facilitating trading communications and diagnosing related problems.
- Knowledge of Fixed Income products, enabling you to comprehend the complexities of the transactions and support requirements.
- Expertise in Foreign Exchange (FX) products, with the ability to align technical solutions with business processes in FX trading.
- Excellent communication skills, with an aptitude for engaging with traders, sales personnel, technical teams, and stakeholders to coordinate resolutions.
- Ability to prioritise under pressure, demonstrating resilience and adaptability in a fast-moving trading environment.
- Strong analytical mindset for root cause analysis and proactive problem-solving.
- Commitment to implementing operational risk management practices and adhering to compliance standards.
Qualifications
To be considered for this challenging and rewarding role, candidates should meet the following qualifications:
- A minimum of 3 to 8 years of hands-on production support experience within a financial services environment, with a focus on trading applications.
- Demonstrated experience supporting front-office trading platforms, particularly in Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income domains.
- Proven track record of working with complex technical environments and participating in incident management and problem resolution.
- Educational background in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, or related disciplines is preferred.
- Certifications in relevant technologies or financial services (e.g., ITIL, Oracle, Linux) will be considered an advantage.
- Strong commitment to professional development and staying current with industry best practices.
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.