Job Summary

• Lead the UI engineering team supporting the Confirmations (CDU) ecosystem, setting technical direction and delivery standards across multiple applications.
• Translate the strategic direction for UI on the CDU platform into a coherent, scalable roadmap that improves user experience, engineering quality and delivery outcomes.
• Build capability in a team of 4-6 UI developers through coaching, collaboration and clear accountability while partnering with product, architecture and engineering stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Set UI architecture and engineering standards for React applications; guide implementation of reusable, accessible and testable experiences; manage dependencies and delivery risks across multiple applications
• Develop talent and capability through coaching and career conversations that build critical skills, stretch potential and prepare individuals for future opportunities.
• Enjoy leading a collaborative team that solves complex user and engineering problems, turns strategy into practical improvements, and delivers visible outcomes across a critical platform.
• Motivated by coaching developers, raising frontend standards, and creating reusable patterns that make multiple product teams faster and more consistent.
• Thrive in an environment that values modern engineering practices, constructive challenge, continuous learning and shared ownership of customer outcomes.

• Front-end architecture & leadership – scalable enterprise UI architecture, engineering standards and technical direction.
• UX & design – translating complex Confirmations workflows into intuitive operational experiences.
• Engineering quality – performance, security, accessibility, automated testing and maintainability.
• Integration – effective integration with APIs, backend services and workflow platforms.
• Technical ownership – design decisions, code reviews, governance and production problem-solving.
• Leadership – mentoring engineers and partnering across Product, UX, Architecture and Backend teams.
• Strategic thinking – balancing near-term delivery with a reusable, sustainable UI platform.

Skills and Experience

• Modern React front-end engineering
• State management with Redux / Redux Toolkit
• REST API integration and asynchronous data handling
• Component library design and adoption
• Browser performance analysis and troubleshooting
• Third-party component integration
• UI architecture, accessibility, testing and engineering quality

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or mentoring a UI / frontend engineering team of approximately 4-6 developers; substantial commercial experience building and supporting modern React applications across multiple products.
• No mandatory certification. A degree or equivalent practical experience in software engineering, computer science or a related discipline is desirable.

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.