JOB SUMMARY

• A highly experienced Engineering Lead with 14+ years of expertise in designing and delivering scalable, secure, and cloud-native banking applications. Specializing in Java, API development, microservices, cloud (AWS/Azure), DevOps, security, and stakeholder management, with deep domain knowledge in core banking, payments, onboarding, sales and marketing.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technical Leadership & Solution Design
•    Architect and develop highly available, secure, and scalable banking applications across mobile, frontend, and backend platforms.
•    Define and enforce architectural standards for API-first, microservices-based systems.
•    Provide technical leadership in Java, API security, cloud infrastructure, and modern banking technology stacks.
•    Lead performance optimization and security hardening efforts, ensuring compliance with industry standards (OWASP, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001).
•    Drive adoption of DevSecOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and CI/CD best practices.

2. Cloud & DevOps Strategy
•    Architect and deploy cloud-native solutions on AWS and Azure, leveraging serverless, Kubernetes, and containerized applications.
•    Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
•    Define observability, monitoring, and logging strategies using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana.
•    Optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments, security scans, and compliance enforcement.

3. Full-Stack Engineering Excellence
•    Design and develop secure, high-performance APIs and backend services in Java/Spring Boot.
•    Collaborate with mobile (iOS/Android) and frontend (React/Angular) teams for seamless integration.
•    Implement API Gateway strategies, authentication, and encryption protocols (OAuth, JWT, mTLS).
•    Ensure best practices in data security, encryption, and access control.

4. Banking & Financial Domain Expertise
•    Deep understanding of core banking systems, payments, digital banking, onboarding, and sales and marketing.
•    Experience with payment gateways, open banking APIs, and real-time transaction processing.
•    Collaborate with compliance and risk teams to ensure regulatory adherence (e.g., MAS, FCA, GDPR).
•    Implement fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), and financial crime prevention strategies.

5. Stakeholder & Cross-Team Collaboration
•    Work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to align technical solutions with business goals.
•    Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements.
•    Provide guidance and mentorship to developers while driving engineering excellence across teams.

6. Agile & Continuous Improvement
•    Champion Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) for iterative development and faster delivery.
•    Lead technical proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and drive innovation with AI/ML, automation, and FinTech integrations.
•    Advocate for continuous learning, emerging technology adoption, and engineering best practices.

Key Technologies Tools

•    Programming: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python (for automation, scripting)
•    Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
•    Security & Compliance: OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, Zero Trust, OWASP, PCI-DSS
•    Frontend & Mobile: React, Lit, iOS/Android integration.
•    Monitoring & Logging: ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
•    Agile & CI/CD: Jira, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps

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.