Data Engineer

Job ID: 36181

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 4 Sept 2025

Job Summary

• We are seeking a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to design, implement, and optimise data systems and pipelines that support critical business operations. The ideal candidate will have expertise in database management, data modeling, and distributed systems, with a strong focus on both relational and non-relational databases. Additionally, experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automation is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Manage and optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Implement and maintain search solutions using Elasticsearch.
• Develop and manage messaging systems using Kafka for real-time data streaming, and event stores like Axon Server
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, security, and availability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Automate database operations using scripting (Shell, Liquibase) and tools like Ansible.
• Support CloudOps initiatives across AWS, Azure, and on-premise environments.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data workflows and infrastructure provisioning.
• Drive engagement and motivate the team to success;
• Be committed to continuously challenge self for the better;
• Adhere to small and consistent increments that can deliver value and impact to the business;
• Have Agile and growth mindsets; and strive for excellence.

Strategy

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

Business

• Awareness and understanding of Trade Finance, the wider business, economic, and market environment in which the Group operates.

Processes

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank's change management processes and DevOps practices.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
• Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank's risk management processes and practices.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank's governance frameworks applicable to Trade Finance and practices that support them.

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: (Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.)
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• CIB Trade ITO Team

Qualifications

Primary Skills

• Strong experience as a DBA with expertise in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora).
• Proficiency in NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for search and indexing.
• Knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka for distributed data processing, and event stores like Axon Server.

Secondary Skills

• Familiarity with CloudOps across AWS, Azure, or on-premise platforms.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation skills using Shell scripting, Liquibase, and configuration management tools like Ansible.

Skills and Experience

• System Administration (GNU/Linux, *nix)
• On-demand Infrastructure/Cloud Computing, Storage, and Infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Virtualization, Containerisation, and Orchestration (Docker, Podman, EKS, AKS, Kubernetes)
• Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) and Automation (Jenkins, Ansible)
• Project Management
• Infrastructure/service monitoring and log aggregation design and implementation (Appdynamics, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc)
• Distributed data processing frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, etc), big data platforms (EMR, HDInsight, etc), and event stores (Axon Server)
• NoSQL and RDBMS Design and Administration (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch)
• Change Management Coordination
• Software Development
• DevOps Process Design and Implementation

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.