Job Description

Role Responsibilities

\xc2\xb7 Minimum 12 years of experience in application Design, Architecture and development using PEGA 6.x, 7.x and 8.x versions

\xc2\xb7 Should have involved in architecture design and development of min 3 enterprise applications in PEGA platform

\xc2\xb7 Strong knowledge and experience on PRPC internals and product architecture

\xc2\xb7 PEGA System administration knowledge and strong hands-on in PEGA tools including AES, PAL, PLA

\xc2\xb7 Knowledge in JAVA, PL/SQL and Unix

\xc2\xb7 Strong debugging skills and experience in Connectors and Services (Email, REST, FILE, MQ, JMS etc)

\xc2\xb7 Strong debugging skills in PEGA and ability to play as independent contributor

\xc2\xb7 Experience in JBOSS configuration for PEGA and DevOps model

\xc2\xb7 Good Analysing skills command over written and spoken English

Responsibilities*

Strategy*

Resiliency

\xc2\xb7 Play as a team member in SRE team to enhance application and infrastructure resiliency of service through self-healing and automated failovers - target a 99.9% up-time to customers.

\xc2\xb7 Oversee the planned/unplanned disruption of production infrastructure to ensure accountability for building resilient, always-on systems.

\xc2\xb7 Build resilience into the application so underlying system failures are handled gracefully and do not impact end users. Influence design/development teams to always be thinking of the rainy-day scenarios.

Efficiency

\xc2\xb7 Identify opportunities to eliminate all manual and repeatable activities (toil) via tooling and automation

\xc2\xb7 Reduce the number of repeat incidents by permanently fixing the underlying root cause of issues

Capacity Planning

\xc2\xb7 Develop automated predictive analysis of future capacity needs and drive the proactive upgrade of service capacity well in advance

\xc2\xb7 Using Standard Chartered\xe2\x80\x99 s SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) develop auto-scaling to deliver robust resilience to fluctuations in critical service demand

\xc2\xb7 Continuously monitor service demand / capacity for any discrepancies or spikes

Business*

Availability/Reliability

\xc2\xb7 Take responsibility for meeting SLA/XLA expectations around the operability and reliability of our critical user service journeys, where our customers expect a 24x7 digital service offering. Examples of \xe2\x80\x9calways on\xe2\x80\x9d techniques to be used include caching, circuit breakers, dark and canary releases, store and service patterns and alternate user experience flows.

Latency & Performance

\xc2\xb7 Drive conversation around development velocity using SLIs/SLOs data to ensure development velocity vs. service reliability is optimized in partnership with Product Teams

\xc2\xb7 Iteratively review SLI/SLO/Error Budget policy to ensure the quantitative indicators of customer experience are accurate

\xc2\xb7 Where an increased focus on reliability is required influence senior stakeholders to ensure resourcing / effort is made available

Processes*

Transition to Production

\xc2\xb7 Champion and evolve continuous delivery best practice standards to reduce release related incidents, manual hands-off and achieve our aspiration of \xe2\x80\x9czero ops\xe2\x80\x9d

\xc2\xb7 Partner with development teams to ensure applications are designed with scale, resilience, and performance in mind.

Monitoring

\xc2\xb7 Optimize monitoring to reduce false positive alerts

\xc2\xb7 Creatively deepen monitoring capabilities leveraging the 3 tenets of observability \xe2\x80\x93 logs, metrics and traces

\xc2\xb7 Ensure all critical user service journeys are traceable end to end

\xc2\xb7 Ensure Production Solutions are fit for purpose. Where gaps are identified put a plan in place to uplift the toolset

\xc2\xb7 Identify key issues in the business areas being supported, and based on this information, put in place appropriate controls and measures to assess, monitor, control & mitigate risks.

\xc2\xb7 Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment within Technology Services.

\xc2\xb7 Ensure support procedures are in place and adhere to Group Security & Audit policies within Technology Services.

Active engagement with all audit issues arising in this support environment

Governance *

\xc2\xb7 Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the governance, oversight and controls and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas

\xc2\xb7 Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Regulatory & Business Conduct *

\xc2\xb7 Display exemplary conduct and live by the .

\xc2\xb7 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.

\xc2\xb7 Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities*

• PEGA application Design, architecture & development using PRPC 7.x and 8.x versions.
• Design Highly scalable and robust application architecture, Class Structures and Flows independently and on-time delivery without compromise on quality.
• Application Debugging and production issue investigation
• Requirement analysis, discussion with stakeholders and technical team.
• Proper documentation and Delivery following Agile delivery model
• Lead the team on technical design and guide to resolve complex technical issues
• Weekly status report to senior management

\xc2\xb7 Follow SCB standards and Compliance

Qualifications*

Training, licenses, memberships and certifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s in information technology or Computer Science

Our Ideal Candidate

PEGA
Java
Shell Scripting
Oracle DB
DevOps Tools
UNIX/Linux

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 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.

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