Job Summary

The Technology & Innovation Governance and Change organization are seeking an Senior Manager.

We are looking for smart resource with more than 10+ years’ experience of strong development skills and willing to operate in a diverse environment of legacy and emerging technologies.
Should have a strong leadership and hands on experience on leading the development  environment team.
Hands-on proficiency in Middleware technologies (Java,Spring,Spring boot , MQ, Tomcat, ) & AWS Cloud technologies.
The individual should be able to configure, operate, manage, tune and maintain, installations, instances and environments, including troubleshooting and chasing down issues to resolution, often applying logic and reasoning from first principles when dealing with unfamiliar components and systems.
A mindset of quality and governance is key, with a passion for reducing outages and maintaining control and hygiene of systems by adhering to the various policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

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.
•    Flexibility - Willing to work in shifts.
The candidate should have a passion for quality delivery, as well as a disciplined approach to planning, execution and reporting. The role will require ongoing engagement with a broad constituency across the bank, dealing with teams' project, development and testing who are at varying stages of technology and test methodology adoption. The ability to successfully communicate with stakeholders is therefore essential.
•    Provide system security measures for the projects which we are handling.
•    Environment setup Creating Applications as per the project requirement.
•    Ensure to provide timely technical support during the different phases of testing drills.
•    Proactive monitoring & Housekeeping the environments.
•    Ensure process is followed on all the activities.
•    Act as a facilitator and coordinate between various teams to resolve complex issues and outages.
•    Track incidents and provide regular updates to users on request status and progress.
•    Manage/coordinate recurring issues and ensure long-term resolution.
•    Highly motivated to learn and manage different applications across derivatives.
•    Document common issues for team's perusal.
•    Follow escalation procedures during outages and ensure root-cause analysis.
•    Monitor and oversee End of Day batches and escalate to appropriate teams in case of failures.
•    Value addition in all possible activities involved.

Qualifications

Graduate or Post Graduate in engineering

Skills and Experience

10+ Years of Experience in relevant domain

•    Hands-on proficiency in Middleware technologies, Cloud, Java & Containerization technologies (Dockers, Kubernetes).
•    Strong technical skills and problem-solving ability.
•    Persuade and influence clients.
•    Decode the big picture without compromising on the details.
•    Mitigate risks and manage crises.
•    Come up with with innovative solutions.
•    Strive for diversity and inclusion.

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.