Job Summary

Develop the strategic direction and roadmap for SCPAY, aligning with Business Strategy, ITO Strategy and investment priorities. Tap into latest industry trends, innovative products & solutions to deliver effective and faster product capabilities. Support CASH Management Operations leveraging technology to streamline processes, enhance productivity, reduce risk and improve controls

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

•    Supports Hive Tech Lead on Technology strategy, roadmap and execution.

•    Support Chief Product Owner & Hive Tech Lead on analysis for planning, budgeting and QPR reporting, including trade-off analysis.

•    Deliver outputs that make a significant contribution to the organization's strategic goals.

•    Partner with stakeholders to determine the right solutions to business needs.

Business

•    Promote engineering craftmanship and focus on delivering business value.

•    Responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.

•    Works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.

•    Point of escalation for delivery issues across all impacted hives and squads.

•    Work with Change Delivery Manager (Release Manager) to develop delivery and release plans with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the team and architect.

•    Exhibit passion for client experience with a user-first mindset.

•    Drive the domain towards future state of banking and technology.

•    Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.

Processes

•    Study existing engineering processes and contribute to improvements to drive up efficiencies. Present ideas across other areas and foster innovation.

•    Analyze, remove, or mitigate dependencies across teams to enable speed and quality of delivery.

•    Responsible in the preparation of production outputs and their planning in alignment to ESDLC standards.

•    Vendor Data Management - reviewing the data handling practices from the vendor to ensure they adhere to the data protection regulation and best practices defined by Standard Chartered bank.

People & Talent

•    May also take on Chapter Leadership as long as he/she is an active practitioner in the craft of the Chapter that they lead; i.e., has full accountability to the growth of the Chapter, and not solely an line management responsibility.

•    Employ, engage and retain high quality talent that the team is adequately staffed and skilled to deliver on business commitments.

•    Work on upskilling of technical expertise in line with latest market trend.

•    Mentoring and training the squad on technical skills.

•    Work with Hive Tech Lead to ensure the agreed blend and balance of in-house and vendor resources.

Skills and Experience

Minimum 13 yrs of experience in the Engineering Lead role and in that a minimum 3 years of experience as EL role is an added advantage.
Ability to work with geographically dispersed and highly varied stakeholders.
Very Good communication and interpersonal skills to manage senior stakeholders and top management.
Knowledge on JIRA and Confluence tools are desired.

Technical Knowledge: Java / Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, REST, JSON, Netflix Micro Services suite ( Zuul / Eureka / Hystrix etc., ), 12 Factor Apps, Oracle, PostgresSQL, Cassandra & ELK

Enterprise/Solution Architecture    
Process Improvement    
Stakeholder Management
Process Improvement    
Risk & Compliance    

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree

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.

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