Job Summary

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. 

Key Responsibilities

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

Strategy
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 

Processes
Reference the processes for which the Role Holder is responsible, as per the Operational Risk Framework definition of first / second line, for example, Responsible for executing and supervising the Budget process. 

People & Talent
•    Coordinate with resources and teams across different locations
•    Good Stakeholder Management Skills
•    Responsible for capability development of the team/ unit
•    Responsible for conducting appraisals, feedback & handling work allocations for direct reports &
•    reviewing the same for indirect reports.
•    Responsible for managing the career growth, motivation & retention for the assigned group

Risk Management
•    Coordinate across different teams and locations
•    Capability development of the team/ unit
•    Conducting appraisals, feedback & handling work allocations for team members.
•    Managing the career growth, motivation & retention for team members

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

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.

Key stakeholders

•    Business and Operations (Product Owners)
•    Trade IT Team
•    Interface IT Teams
•    Technology Services Teams
•    Production Support Teams

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
•    Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred
•    JAVA Certification preferred

Skills and Experience

Mandatory Skills:
•    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: 
•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Technical Stack: 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 Intelij 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

Prior Experience:
•    Relevant experience of 10+ years
•    Banking/FinTech experience preferred 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Latest technology architectures and design – Micro services, Web and Mobile applications
•    Cloud-Native application deployments and Containers (Docker)
•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML
•    Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA 

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.