Job Summary

The Lead, Development will be a key member of Trade IT Development team and responsible for managing Agile Development teams and ensuring delivery of high-quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. The role holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme.

Software Delivery 
•    Represent the team to management and management to the team.
•    Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team.
•    Responsible for teaching and coaching Scrum values and practices
•    Ensure adherence to delivery schedules and attendance at Daily Stand-up meetings.
•    Remove roadblocks and obstacles where the team is not able to do so.
•    Assist the Product Owner in shielding the team from external interferences.
•    Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions.
•    Facilitate team member specialization and generalization of tasks.
•    Schedule Sprint Reviews at the end of each sprint with the Product Owner
•    Schedule and facilitate Sprint and Release Planning meetings.
•    Primarily a facilitative, servant leader and a Scrum process coach.
•    Monitor Sprint tasks to ensure success but does not create or assign tasks (the team creates and assigns tasks)
•    Regularly and physically meets with the team members.
 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of Trade Finance, the wider business, economic, and market environment in which the Group operates.

Processes

•    Ensure adherence to Systems Development Framework and control processes.
•    Ensure delivery of all software artefacts

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.
•    Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
•    Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s risk management processes and practices.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s governance frameworks applicable to Trade Finance and practices that support them.

Our Ideal Candidates Should Have:-

• Minimum 8+ years in the development or technical role in a banking or Financial Institute environment.
• Experience in managing Agile Delivery Teams
• Latest technology architectures and design – Micro services, Web and Mobile applications 
• Cloud-Native application deployments and Containers (Docker)
• Exceptional troubleshooting and investigative skills. In possession of a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• The ability to manage competing priorities from a variety of stakeholders.
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
• Should have participated in, and be familiar with, SDLC and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies.

Proficiency in:

• Technical Stack: Micro-services development using Spring Boot, Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML,
• Technical Tools: Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA

Optional Skills:

• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs.
• Experience in event driven architectures (CQRS and SAGA patterns).
• Build Tools (Gulp, and webpack), Jenkins, Docker, Automation, Bash, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Qualifications

• Educational Qualification/Certification:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• JAVA Certification preferre
   

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.