Key Responsibilities

The Lead Engineer will be a key member of Trade Engineering team and responsible for delivering the product as per the business requirements to systems/technical design. 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

Deliver Functional Design
•    Participate in business process re-engineering
•    Assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories, epics and themes with acceptance criteria to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
•    Provide functional consultancy support to development team for Technical Design
•    Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material
•    Providing functional support during User Acceptance/Integration Testing
•    Walkthrough the User Manual/ Production User Verification scripts with users

Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements
•    Continuous management of the Trade Application System risks
•    Proactively identify issues and actions 
•    Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
•    Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design

Skills and Experience

•    Relevant experience of 10-15 years
•    Banking/Fintech experience mandatory
•    Trade Finance domain experience preferred
•    Strong presentation and communication skills 
•    Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs 
•    Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, Micro service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints 
•    Technical Stack : Java, Spring and its extensions (Boot, Cloud, Data, Security, Streams), PostgreSQL/Oracle, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS modules (S3, SMS, Opensearch), Hibernate, Rest API (development, contract), Maven, Azure DevOps (ADO), 
•    Technical Tools: Confluence/ADO/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Java IDEs (Eclipse, Intellij, VSCode)
•    Agile development experience
•    Experience with design and development of REST API platform using Apigee/APIM, converting web services from SOAP to REST
•    Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
•    Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications 
•    Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
•    Experience with Unix, Linux Operating Systems 

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree

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.