Job Summary

Looking for a  senior Java software engineer  to work across financial applications within SCB. These applications are used by several hundred operators across the Investment Bank..

Ensure production stability with near-zero unscheduled outages. Proactively detect and fix potential failures. Define best practices, standardize processes, and promote continuous improvement across platforms.

Key Responsibilities

•    Advice future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends and regulatory requirements
•    Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
Business
•    Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
•    Understand and Recommend business flows and translate them to API Ecosystem
Processes
•    Responsible for executing and supervising microservices development to facilitate business capabilities and orchestrate to achieve business outcomes
People & Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people, and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.

Risk Management
•    The ability to interpret the Portfolio Key Risks, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measure
Governance
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

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.

Key stakeholders

•    CIB Business Stakeholders, Endusers, Downstream & Upstream Applications

Other Responsibilities

·    Develop interfaces and integrate with upstream/downstream.
·    To perform code review and mentor junior developers.
·    As technical expert to support Production issue.
·    Work with QA team to support SIT/UAT/PT test.
·    Monitoring, Optimizing and Capacity Planning for the application.
·    Prepare documentation as required to follow SCB rules.
·    Meet the tight project delivery timelines 
·    Able to solve complex requirements and issues, and work with Vendor to troubleshooting.
·    Look for process improvements at all the stages of the project
 

Skills and Experience

·   9+ year Java/Jave EE application software development. 
·   5+ year Reactjs, Vuejs, typescript, javascript software development. 
·   Middleware experience, familiar with ActiveMQ,Kafka,RabbitMQ, JMS and other interfaces.
·   Solid Linux shell script coding capability to automatic BAU tasks to increase efficiency.
·   Software development full life cycle experience on Linux.
·   Strong experience of cloud, AWS, k8s,Docker,Podman etc. 
·   Familiar and experience with ELK, Hadoop.
·   3+ years working experience with Oracle DB. 
·   Strong troubleshooting skills.
·   Good English communication skills, be able to manage communication/relationship with 3rd party vendors, and
    upstream App owners and other stakeholders. 
·   Prior exposure to work on projects in the Banking & Financial Services Vertical is preferred
·   Agile experience is added advantage
·   Able to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative, enthusiasm and rapid learning capability, and detail
    oriented 

Qualifications

EDUCATION: Bachelor in IT or equivalent

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.