Senior Developer/Manager for Credit Risk (SAS,Python)

Standard Chartered - Bangalore, IN

Full-time - Mid Level

Bangalore, IN

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The role requires strategic thinking and planning and provide expertise throughout the entire product development life cycle with a strong knowledge of SAS Viya programming, API architecture, Kubernetes, Risk and Finance domain. Also the role requires ownership, making sure that quality is baked in from the start.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise throughout the entire product development life cycle with a strong sense of quality ownership.
• Be responsive to customer and project needs, managing customer expectations.
• Establish a close working rapport with project team to understand issues and risks.
• Manage multiple projects while ensuring process compliance and deliverables are adhered to.
• Ensure all development tasks meet quality criteria through proper planning and designing, quality assurance, and issue tracking.
• Mitigate business risks through timely, precise execution and validation of infrastructural changes.
• Work closely with development and Infra teams to create plans for enhancements and application fixes.
• Assist in managing and coordinating project deliverables and activities.
• Manage and coordinate dependencies, risks, and issues to ensure successful project delivery.
• Manage communication channels and relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to the management, monitoring, and delivery of remediation action plans.
• Perform functional and technical Infrastructure review activities.
• Identify automation opportunities and define the approach.
• Identify test environment requirements and liaise with teams.
• Conduct periodic reviews and inspections of project deliverables and provide feedback.
• Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project.
• Identify project risks.
• Help management implement bank governance.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Lead the Risk technology Team to achieve outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Effectively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of SAS Viya programming.
• Experience with API architecture and Kubernetes.
• Experience in the Risk and Finance domain.
• Hands-on experience in SAS developer framework.
• Desirable skills in SAS admin Framework.
• Desirable skills in Hadoop development Framework.
• Sound statistical knowledge, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good knowledge of Big Data technologies (Hortonworks HDP, Apache Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Zookeeper, HBase, Oozie, Spark, Ni-Fi, Kafka, Snap logic, AWS, Red shift).
• Experience with monitoring tools.
• Development capabilities using Python, Spark, SAS, R languages.
• Good management and analytical skills.
• Good writing and oral communication skills.
• Good understanding of and experience in projects (e.g. SDLC, Agile methodology).
• Ability to debug & write/modify Shell script/Python.
• Willingness to work on-call support over weekends.
• Ability to liaise with multiple application teams & coordinate for issue resolution.

Nice-to-haves

• Desirable skills in Big Data space (Hadoop Stack like HDFS, Pig, Hive, HBase, Sqoop etc).
• Good analytical & interaction skills.

Benefits

• 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).
• 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 self-help toolkits.
• Continuous learning culture to support growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill.
• Being part of an inclusive and values-driven organisation that embraces and celebrates unique diversity.