Job Summary

• SC Identity Platform team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking an Engineer with 5 or more years of experience to develop and support on functionalities of our Single Identity Platform. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Understand the bank’s strategy and implementing identity and security features to deliver the bank’s platform strategy. 

Business
•    This role will work alongside with our Single Identity Platform team to build industry leading feature capability.

Processes
•    Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement.  

People & Talent
•    Work collaboratively with Single Identity Platform team and diverse engineers to deliver identity and security products and tooling.
•    Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.

Risk Management
•    Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance
•    Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

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

•    TSA Management
•    Single Identity Platform team
•    Digital Solutions team
•    Technology Assurance Owners
•    Delivery leads

Skills and Experience

•    API development & own API technical implementation in a scrum team.
•    Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
•    Hands-on experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plan is highly desirable
•    Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as ADO, Git, Ansible
•    Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
•    Experience with container and microservices services such as Quarkus, Spring Framework as well as container platform such as Podman, Docker and Kubernetes is bonus

Qualifications

We expect our team members to be better than the average Developer or Engineer, as our role is to fix what they cannot, to solve the problems they think are impossible, and to guide them through solutions or approaches. Key responsibility is to develop core functions related to identities, automate process and workflow and provide support to other developers using our platform.

The soft skills we are looking for include:
•    Eagerness to learn – curious, self-learning, then applying
•    Problem Solving Skills – creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking
•    Big-Picture Thinking – maintainability, testability, usability, performance etc.
•    Positive Attitude – passion for the task and achieving a solution
•    Communication Skills – explain, influence, listen, document thinking
•    Independence - ability to work and deliver unsupervised, a self-starter
•    Discipline - to chase down solutions to resolution, to deliver quality

The hard skills we are looking for include:
•    5-7 years of experience working as a software engineer/dev lead
•    Strong communicator with experience in agile working environments
•    API development & own API technical implementation in a scrum team
•    Hands-on experience in Java or Go. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
•    Working knowledge of API development standards
•    Working knowledge of OIDC, oAuth 2.0, Tokenization framework, MFA, Identity Management, Cryptography. Proficient in other security framework such as FIDO, SAML is a bonus
•    Experience in micro services architecture 
•    Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as ADO, Git, Ansible.
•    Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
•    Experience with containers as well as container platform such as Podman, Docker and Kubernetes is bonus
•    Experience in ELK stack with data instrumentation & Telemetry 
•    Knowledge of database systems and design on SQL & Postgre SQL 

Competencies

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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