Job Summary

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•    Maintain exemplary coding standards within the team, contributing to code base development and code repository management.
•    Function as a technical leader and active coder, setting and enforcing domain-specific best practices and technology standards.
•    Collaborate with product managers and other tech leads to ensure applications meet functional requirements and strategic objectives.
•    Manage the mainframe's backend processes, including system maintenance, performance optimisation, and security compliance.
•    Lead the backend modernisation efforts for mainframe systems, ensuring integration with new technologies where applicable.
•    Provide technical leadership for the backend aspect of mainframe systems, setting coding standards and practices for development teams.
•    Oversee backend development projects on mainframe systems, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategies.
•    Coordinate backend development activities, including version control, code reviews, and deployment strategies for mainframe applications.
•    Actively shapes and drives towards the Bank-Wide engineering strategy and programmes to uplift standards and steer the technological direction towards excellence
•    Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices and provide technical assistance to the members of their Chapter.
•    Responsible for the quality of the code repository where applicable.
•    Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.
•    Prioritises and makes available capacity for technical debt.
•    This role is around capability building, it is not to own applications or delivery.

Technical Responsibilities
•    Drive backend development in mainframe environments, from code development to testing and production.
•    Ensure robustness and efficiency in backend processing on mainframe systems, leading performance tuning and optimisation initiatives.
•    Manage backend development projects across mainframe databases and transaction processing environments.
•    Implement and maintain backend system integrations and data flow between mainframe and other platforms.
•    Champion the use of advanced backend tools and practices in the mainframe space to enhance system capabilities.
Strategy
•    Cultivate an engineering culture that values excellence, feedback, and clean code, driving the chapter towards innovative and efficient practices.
•    Develop a strategic approach that enhances SDLC process efficiency, delivering high-quality and scalable solutions.
•    Integrate Thought Leadership to upskill the team in areas like quality assurance, enhancing user experience, and effective use of automation.
•    Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices and provide technical assistance to the members of their Chapter.
•    Responsible for the quality of the code repository where applicable.
•    Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.
•    Prioritises and makes available capacity for technical debt.
•    This role is around capability building, it is not to own applications or delivery.

Business
•    Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).
•    Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.
•    Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
•    Trusted advisor to the business. Work hand in hand with the Business, taking product programs from investment decisions, into design, specification, and solution phases, all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams.
•    Provide leadership and technical expertise for the subdomain to achieve goals and outcomes
•    Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities, bid teams, monitoring of usage, improving client experience, and collecting defects for future improvements.
•    Manage business partner expectations. Ensure delivery to business meeting time, cost and with high quality
Processes
•    Adopt and embed the Change Delivery Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.
•    Ensure role, job descriptions and expectations are clearly set, and periodic feedback provided to the entire team.
•    Follows the chapter operating model to ensure a system exists to continue to build capability and performance of the chapter.
•    Chapter Lead may vary based upon the specific chapter domain its leading.
People & Talent
•    Accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members.
•    Reviews metrics on capabilities and performance across their area, has improvement backlog for their Chapters and drives continual improvement of their chapter.
•    Focuses on the development of people and capabilities as the highest priority. 
•    Attract and retain top engineering talent to build a highly skilled and innovative team advancing the Chapter and Hive goals. 

Risk Management
•    Responsible for effective capacity risk management across the Chapter with regards to attrition and leave plans.
•    Ensures the chapter follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their chapter domain.
•    Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain.

Governance
•    Exemplify and promote adherence to the group's values and code of conduct, ensuring all activities comply with regulatory and ethical standards.
•    Take on accountability for the governance of processes and practices, ensuring they meet both internal and external regulatory requirements.
•    Represent the chapter in relevant forums, advocating for the chapter's needs and ensuring alignment with organisational directives.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Ensure a comprehensive understanding of and adherence to local banking laws, anti-money laundering regulations, and other compliance mandates.
•    Conduct business activities with a commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, fostering an environment of trust and respect.

Key stakeholders
•    Chapter Area Lead, Hive Lead, Product Owners, Engineering Leads

Other Responsibilities
•    Champion the company's broader mission and values, integrating them into daily operations and team ethos.
•    Undertake additional responsibilities as necessary, ensuring they contribute to the organisation's strategic aims and adhere to Group and other Relevant policies.

Requirements & Skills
•    Mainframe Mastery: Proficient in IBM Z/OS operations and COBOL programming, with hands-on experience in utilizing mainframe tools such as ENDEVOR and EXPEDITER, and adept in mainframe API frameworks like KONG and SOLACE.
•    Integration Proficiency: Skilled in enterprise integration patterns, including MQ and CFT, with the ability to leverage frameworks like SPRING BOOT for modernizing mainframe applications.
•    Database and RPGLE Acumen: Capable with DB2, adept in writing and optimizing RPGLE and SQLRPGLE programs for AS400 systems.
•    Legacy Systems Innovation: Demonstrated success in modernizing and integrating legacy systems with cutting-edge technology, enhancing system efficiency and business agility.
•    Strategic Leadership and Vision: Proven track record in spearheading substantial technology initiatives, with a focus on leading projects that contribute significantly to the bank's engineering strategy and the advancement of engineering policies.
•    8+ years of proven experience in mainframe environment out of which 4+ years is in leadership roles
•    Proven ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimise the performance of mainframe applications and systems.
•    Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for mainframe applications, including program specifications, system configurations, and operational procedures.
•    Strong foundation in software version control systems and practices, with experience using SCM tools like Git or Bitbucket within a mainframe context.
•    Demonstrated ability to facilitate agile methodologies and drive agile projects in a mainframe development setting, showcasing strong collaboration and soft skills.

Tools & Toolkit options 
•    Deep understanding of mainframe systems, including IBM z/OS, IBM z/VM, IBM z/VSE, and related operating systems.
•    Knowledge of mainframe hardware architecture, such as IBM System z servers
•    Proficiency in mainframe programming languages such as COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), PL/I (Programming Language One), Assembler, and JCL (Job Control Language). 
•    Knowledge of transaction processing systems like CICS (Customer Information Control System) and IMS TM 
•    Batch processing concepts and tools such as JCL (Job Control Language) and IBM JES (Job Entry Subsystem) 
•    Understanding of mainframe middleware technologies like IBM MQ (Message Queue) and IBM IMS Connect for facilitating communication 
•    Experience with mainframe integration technologies such as IBM DataPower Gateway
•    Knowledge of mainframe security mechanisms, including RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) and ACF2 (Access Control Facility 2)
•    Compliance standards like PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

Qualifications

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Mainframe (MF) backend knowledge    Advanced competencies in mainframe backend development, with a high level of proficiency in programming, system management, and batch processing

• MF Database Management    Expert-level understanding of mainframe database management and transaction processing systems.

• Technical Leadership    Proven ability to guide backend development projects on mainframe systems, with a focus on efficiency, reliability, and compliance

• Technical Leadership    Strong leadership skills, capable of driving backend initiatives and mentoring development teams in a mainframe context.

• Lending Domain Knowledge

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.