Job Summary

Development Lead is responsible for overseeing the development team, and ensuring the successful delivery of software solutions as aligned to business strategies and priorities. This role involves leadership, strategic technical forecasting, and hands-on technical expertise to guide and support the development team members in achieving organizational goals, while fostering a positive and encouraging team environment. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Align development projects with the organization's strategic goals and objectives.
•    Contribute to the development of the technology roadmap and long-term planning.
•    Identify opportunities for innovation and technological advancements to support business growth.

Business
•    Collaborate with product owners, integration partners and other stakeholders to help team understand business requirements and targets.
•    Contribute to book of work forecasting and planning of solutions as aligned to business strategies.

Processes
•    eSDLC Process, Scrum/Agile, Release Management

People & Talent
•    Lead through example, mentor, and manage a team of software developers in alignment to bank values.  
•    Foster a collaborative and productive team environment.  
•    Conduct performance reviews and provide regular, timely feedback to team members and partners.  Work closely with chapter leads.

Risk Management
•    Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
•    Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements.
•    Conduct risk assessments and implement controls to minimize project and operational risks.

Governance
•    Enforce existing governance frameworks for development.
•    Review and approve code, design documents, and technical specifications to ensure quality and compliance.
•    Facilitate and support audit activities and reviews to ensure adherence to governance policies and standards.

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
•    Delivery Leads, Scrum Leads, Chapter Leads, UX Designers, Scrum Team, Product Owners, Production Engineering Team, Management Team, Integration Partner contacts

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Do the right thing, Never Settle, Better together [India / IT-Projects-IC-T&A / ESG]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Skills and Experience

•    Spring Framework
•    SQL
•    Microservices
•    Containerization / Kubernetes / Docker (OCP/SKE)
•    UNIX/LINUX commands
•    Other related java frameworks/libraries

Qualifications

•    10+ Years of experience in Application Development using Java and Advance Technologies tool
•    Strong understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards
•    Extensive experience in building extensible and scalable solutions
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Strong verbal and written communication skills
•    Good knowledge in DevOps, CI-CD
•    Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
•    Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models
•    Strong experience in Application Delivery, that also includes Production Support
•    Good interpersonal, presentation and documentation skills
•    Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks
•    Awareness about Release Management
•    Strong team player who can collaborate effectively with relevant stakeholders
•    Strong mentorship, with empathic listening skills and a positive collaborative attitude in guiding team members.

Technical Competence
•    Analytical and Problem solving
•    Java 11 or above
•    Java Collections and Streams
•    Design Patterns
•    Spring Boot, Spring JDBC (other related Spring Framework libraries)
•    JSON Libraries (Jackson, GSON)
•    JPA (Hibernate, OpenJPA, or any equivalent)
•    SQL (Oracle, Postgres, Mysql, or any equivalent)
•    Code Quality Tools
•    CI-CD Knowledge
•    Git/Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence
•    Unit Testing framework (Junit, Mockito, Powermock, etc.)
•    API, SOAP, REST (Postman, SOAP UI)
•    IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse STS
•    BPMN Concepts and Frameworks (JBPMN, Camunda, Newgen etc.)
•    Containerization Technologies
•    Microservices based Development and Implementation
•    Knowledge on Unix commands
•    Java security measures (keytool, certificates handling)

•    Knowledge on Middlewares (Kafka, Solace, MQ, etc.)
•    Knowledge on IMDG/Caching Frameworks (Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, etc.)
•    Possess good documentation and presentation skills
•    Able to articulate ideas, designs, and suggestions
•    Mentoring fellow team members, conducting code reviews
•    API Building
•    Microservices Patterns and Cloud Native rules
•    Handling Low-Level Design and managing/taking part in High-Level Design
•    Knowledge on Productionizing an application and knowing Discovery to Delivery phases
•    Good knowledge on Code Quality and related frameworks
•    Knowledge on Rule Engine (Drools, OpenL Tablets, Easy Rules etc.)

Good to Have

•    Multithreading and Concurrency
•    Spring Batch or other batch processing frameworks
•    Data classification methodologies
•    Data replication methods
•    Knowledge on frontend technologies (JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux etc.)
•    Camunda, Newgen, Spring-activiti (BPMN Frameworks)
•    NoSQL (Cassandra, JQL)
•    IMDG Frameworks (Hazelcast etc.)
•    Deep/working knowledge on middlewares like Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, etc.
•    Deep/working knowledge on Caching/Distributed Caching/IMDG (Redis, Infinispan, etc.)
•    Cloud environments knowledge (AWS / Azure etc.)
•    Experience in working and supporting OLTP and OLAP systems
•    Knowledge in Python, Groovy, GraphQL
•    Release management
•    Banking domain and process
•    Knowledge on Cloud native application development, Cloud computing services etc.
•    Training/qualifications and Certifications in some of the functional and/or technical domains as mentioned will be an added advantage

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.