Sr. Developer

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business
• Standard Chartered is a leading international bank operating in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our successful and sustainable business is built on doing tangible, long term good for our people, our customers and the communities we serve.
• Our DSS (Data Solution Service) team is seeking Sr. Developer to join us in Guangzhou. The candidate must be a skilled professional with E2E software development experience with a desire to work in an Agile, dynamic and flat organizational structure. As Sr. Developer, you would be required to analyse, design build, and document technology solutions required in building up AI based technology platform to support business efficiency.

Processes
• Have good sense on IT development process, manage delivery quality, collaborate with peers & cross different department colleague, delivery management.

Risk Management
• Manage open risks and audit points through to closure.
• Perform risk reviews of the environment and raise new risks where/when applicable.

Governance
• Must have strong sense of responsibility/ownership
• High learning aptitude, able to learn new products and technology very quickly
• Must be an effective communicator with business English literacy, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills
• A team player who enjoys working with people on all levels as well as being able to work independently and under pressure to meet tight deadlines

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.

Skills and Experience

• Python
• API
• RAG
• Unstructured data processing, chunking strategy

Qualifications

Educational Level
• Master or bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics or related fields
• Business English (at least read and written)
• Chinese language (verbal and written)
• Scrum Master certification would be preferable.

Experience/Background
• Proven AI project experience in application delivery.
• Proven experience in integration of complex systems or software applications.
• Proven ability to drive innovative software engineering practices and architecture design.
• Proven ability to influence others for a common goal in a large organization.
• 5-10+ years in defining and implementing (with production deployment) technology solutions, preferably in implementing international, cross-border front to back solutions, spanning from the most modern technologies to old large-scale core banking systems
• Good understanding of the Banking products.
• Experiences in NLP or CV (computer vision) related project, preferably with LLM or LVLM
• Proficiency with a deep learning framework such as TensorFlow or Keras
• Proficiency with Python and basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Familiarity with deep learning life cycles, particularly how to prepare data and evaluate models
• Familiarity with Linux
• Familiarity with AI related development framework such as GLM, MCP, Agent, LIama, RAG, Transformer, langchain, fine-tuning.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes.

Personal Attributes
• Must have strong sense of responsibility/ownership
• High learning aptitude, able to learn new products and technology very quickly
• Must be an effective communicator with business English literacy, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills
• A team player who enjoys working with people on all levels as well as being able to work independently and under pressure to meet tight deadlines

Technology Requirements
• Good knowledge of Python development techniques and environments
• Full software development lifecycle experience in a mature CI/CD environment
• Programming languages (Python)
• Frameworks (deep learning framework such as TensorFlow or Keras)
• Familiar with AI Application development.
• Familiar with RDBMS like postgresql, Oracle, Graph Database like Neo4j, Seach Datastore like Elasticsearch.
• Experience on Python and basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• In depth Knowledge of deep learning life cycles, particularly how to prepare data and evaluate models
• Linux
• Experience in NLP or CV (computer vision) related project, preferably with LLM or LVLM

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.