SABRE UI Developer
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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. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain. The culture in SABRE is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful: organized classes and seminars; freewheeling discussions; intensive one-on-one mentorships. Career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents to pursue.
The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around portal based solutions and visualizations written primarily in HTML5 using React. 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 and UI background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change.
The candidate will work closely with the other team member and senior stakeholders in order to design and implement critical strategic Portal based 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 while leading and helping to lead and build the local development team with the expectation that travel is necessary.
The Role Responsibilities - Work closely with the Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers to deliver UI components to internal business users
- Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architectural, system design and programming approach
- Meticulous attention to detail to design, code, unit test and support software components
- Deliver quality software on time following standard software development processes
- Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions
- Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions and operational procedures
- Act as the second line of support during production problems.
Our Ideal Candidate - Strong understanding of React with 1 year minimum commercial experience
- Sound understanding of JavaScript (ES6), Angular.js, Redux, HTML5, CSS3
- Candidates must have a demonstrable ability to produce high quality UI and UX
- Knowledge of open source solutions and trending technologies
- Exposure to broader web technologies such as REStful API's
- Strong understanding of web standards, security, accessibility, browser compatibility,
Additional Skills and Qualifications Scalability and Performance - Proven ability in delivering highly responsive, simple interfaces displaying complex data
- Ability to deliver scalable applications
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) - Experience of Bootstrap and knowledge of Node JS
- Knowledge of Java, Scala and the JVM.
Domain Knowledge (Non-essential but 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
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