Job Summary

Product Specialist - Retail Payments with a strong background in API development and microservices architecture along with deep expertise in retail banking project delivery. 
The ideal candidate will drive the delivery for all the initiative assigned to the squad and lead the squad, delivery ensuring compliance with security and governance standards with fostering innovation and efficiency in digital payment solutions.
 

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Engineering Excellence:
•    Design robust API-driven microservices solutions for retail cross border and domestic payments, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
•    Define end-to-end solution architecture for payment applications, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory requirements.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technology solutions.
•    Ensure seamless integration of payment systems with other banking platforms and third-party services.
•    Conduct performance optimization and implement best practices to enhance reliability and scalability.
•    Hand on experience with VISA, MasterCard Card, Remittance and other national domestic Payments requirement. 
Governance, Security and Compliance:
•    Identify and implement security controls by collaborating with Security teams.
•    Ensure adherence to regulatory compliance, risk mitigation and governance policies.
•    Conduct Security impact assessments to mitigate potential risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.
•    Ensure adherence to enterprise technology standards and best practices in payment system design and implementation.
•    Responsible for all the backlogs delivery in the squad, circulate the DSR/WSR to stakeholders and raise a risk for any missing timeline or blockers 
•    Will be responsible for developing solutions, stake holder management, vendor and financial management, developing project costs, and delivering the developed solutions.
•    Ability to Identifying and managing risks, including developing contingency plans to mitigate potential issues
•    Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles (i.e., waterfall, Agile and other modern approaches to software development)
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization
•    Willingly shares relevant technical and/or industry knowledge and expertise to other resources
•    Excellent problem-solving, team, and time management skills.
•    Resourceful and proactive in gathering information and sharing ideas.
•    Experience in banking or financial services industry.

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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.