Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking - increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.
• The Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management ITO is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency. Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.
• Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.

• The Retail Digital Channels team requires an Agile experienced software delivery lead in the delivery of software assets for the Retail Digital Channels portfolio. The candidate will assist in the delivery of many strategic programs, enable communication between delivery units & management teams by their work predominately focused on software development. The candidate will be expected to manage high quality software delivery including the coding of the implementation of those assets for Internet Banking, Mobile and other related channel software deliverables.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be an experienced hands-on Technical Delivery Lead with a track record in delivering multiple concurrent, complex projects in a regulated environment, ideally within a financial institution\xe2\x80\x99s context. The candidate should have experience working with teams distributed across multiple countries and experience working with program management teams to implement desired high-quality software assets with flexible prioritisation in a scrum based model. The successful candidate is expected to:

• Deliver multiple, complex, critical projects on time successfully
• Involved in technical solutioning and architecture design
• Work closely with architecture team in resolving technical issues
• Take ownership and accountability of software deliverables
• Strong analytical and problem solving
• Manage dependencies of all technical deliverables
• Have strong leadership skills to manage technical delivery squad.
• Good stake holder management
• Participate in and drive through system requirements gathering
• Participate in System impact analysis
• Cost estimation and planning
• Ensure code quality and application stability.
• Coach developers and grow up them from tech ladder.

People and Talent

• Coordinate with resources and teams across different locations
• Strong Stakeholder Management Skills
• Responsible for capability development of the team/ unit

Governance

• Ensure adherence to Systems Development Framework and control processes
• Ensure delivery of all software artefacts

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Lead the [country / business unit / function/ team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Business and Operations (Product Owners)
• Tribe Leads
• Chapter Leads
• Trade IT Team
• Interface IT Teams
• Technology Services Teams
• Production Support Teams

Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree (or equivalent experience)
• Must have the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills to interact with many different personalities/ stakeholders and reach consensus when necessary

Mandatory Skills

• 15 plus years of experience in development, architecture and solution design
• Good in Stake holder management
• Able to manage and create a good rapport with all the interface teams
• Experience in Java, Spring, Spring boot, Rest Services
• Hands on experience in Design Patterns
• Experience in Service Oriented, Microservices and Cloud native architecture implementations
• Exhibit hands-on on various NFRs-Non-functional Requirement\xe2\x80\x99s implementation
• Strong experience in common and reusable components/services development
• Data Modelling, tuning of queries, Performance and Throughput measures
• Security Essentials, application vulnerabilities and remediation
• Oracle or SQL Server development and designing data model.
• Web services, API design, Defining Specification using swagger/RAML.
• Have experience in containerization technologies - Docker, Kubernetes
• Be organised and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
• Strong presentation, interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent and proven senior stakeholder management skills

Prior Experience

• Relevant experience of 15 plus years
• Banking/FinTech experience
• Experience of delivering multiple, complex, digital projects in an Agile environment
• Strong people management skills

Role Specific Competencies

• Java /Java EE
• Micro services (Spring boot, REST API, API Gateways)
• Cloud Technologies (AWS/ Azure)
• Container Technologies (Openshift, Docker, Kuberneties etc)
• DEVOPS (GIT/ Maven, Gradle, Jenkins)
• Mobile Technologies( IOS, Android, Web)

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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