Job Summary

•    Seeking an experienced Platform Architect with 7 – 10 years of experience in coding and designing high-scale platforms. The incumbent work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, business stakeholders, compliance, and external vendors to ensure timely and successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities

•    Platform Design: Architect a secure, scalable, and high-availability digital-assets platform.
•    Integration: Seamlessly integrate custody, multi-chain networks, wallet operations, and orchestration.
•    Messaging Patterns: Implement reliable messaging patterns including queues, retries, DLQ, and replay mechanisms.
•    Performance & Reliability: Ensure observability, disaster recovery (DR), failover, and predictable performanceat scale.
•    Automation & Operations: Develop automation, runbooks, exception handling, and operational guardrails.
•    Stakeholder Communication: Simplify complex digital asset concepts for stakeholders.
•    Collaboration: Partner with Business Analysts and Product Business lines to develop and build secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
•    Client Experience: Exhibit a passion for enhancing client experience.
•    Interdependencies: Address and solve potential interdependencies between platforms and systems.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
•    Distributed Systems: Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and high-scale platforms.
•    Design & Coding: Proficiency in design skills and hands-on experience with Java.
•    Blockchain & Custody: Understanding of blockchain technology, custody models, and wallet operations.
•    Event-Driven Architecture: Experience with event-driven flows and resilient APIs.

Governance
•    Must adhere to GCOC
•    Must own and contribute to Test Strategy Document
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.

Skills and Experience

•    Project Management Tools
•    Agile and Scrum Methodologies
•    Project planning and scheduling
•    Risk and Issue management
•    Budgeting and cost management
•    Reporting and dashboards
•    Change Management
•    Business Analysis skills
•    Technical acumen – Understanding of APIs, data flows
•    Familiarity with automation concepts
•    Documentation tools

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.