Job Summary

The Senior Development Lead (Grade 6) is a strategic technical leader responsible for driving end-to-end solution delivery within the Contract Management Programme in CCIB's Client Coverage domain. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership capabilities to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that support Standard Chartered’ s corporate and investment banking operations.

Key Responsibilities

Core work in agile squad
Squad Leadership & Delivery
•    Sprint Planning & Execution: Lead sprint planning sessions, ensuring realistic commitments and optimal resource allocation across development streams
•    Backlog Management: Collaborate with Product Owner to prioritize and refine backlog items, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility
•    Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Business Analysts, QA Engineers, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to ensure seamless delivery
•    Delivery Accountability: Own end-to-end delivery of complex features and epics, ensuring quality, timeline adherence, and stakeholder satisfaction
•    Risk Management: Proactively identify technical and delivery risks, implementing mitigation strategies and escalating when necessary

Agile Practices
•    Scrum Ceremonies: Facilitate daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews, driving continuous improvement
•    Velocity Optimization: Monitor and optimize team velocity through effective task breakdown and impediment removal
•    Definition of Done: Establish and maintain clear DoD criteria, ensuring consistent quality standards
•    Continuous Improvement: Drive adoption of best practices, tools, and methodologies to enhance team productivity

Technical skills & implementation
Java/J2EE Development
•    Enterprise Architecture: Design and implement scalable Java enterprise applications using J2EE patterns and frameworks
•    Code Quality: Establish coding standards, conduct code reviews, and ensure adherence to SOLID principles and design patterns
•    Performance Optimization: Implement performance tuning strategies, memory management, and JVM optimization
•    Legacy Modernization: Lead migration initiatives from legacy systems to modern Java platforms

Spring Boot Framework
•    Microservices Architecture: Design and develop microservices using Spring Boot, ensuring loose coupling and high cohesion
•    Spring Ecosystem: Leverage Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud for comprehensive application development
•    Configuration Management: Implement externalized configuration using Spring profiles and cloud config
•    Testing Strategy: Implement comprehensive testing using Spring Boot Test, MockMvc, and TestContainers

React Frontend Development
•    Component Architecture: Design reusable React components following modern patterns (hooks, context, state management)
•    State Management: Implement complex state management using Redux, Context API, or modern alternatives
•    UI/UX Implementation: Collaborate with UX teams to implement responsive, accessible user interfaces
•    Performance Optimization: Implement code splitting, lazy loading, and performance monitoring

PostgreSQL Database
•    Database Design: Design normalized database schemas, implement indexing strategies, and optimize query performance
•    Data Migration: Lead database migration projects, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime
•    Performance Tuning: Optimize database performance through query optimization, connection pooling, and caching strategies
•    Backup & Recovery: Implement robust backup and disaster recovery procedures

Solution design & design patterns
Architecture Leadership
•    Solution Architecture: Lead architectural decisions for complex business requirements, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security
•    Design Patterns: Apply and evangelize appropriate design patterns (Factory, Observer, Strategy, Command, etc.) across the development team
•    Technology Evaluation: Assess and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools aligned with bank strategy
•    Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, and design decisions

System Integration
•    API Design: Design RESTful APIs following open API specifications, ensuring consistency and reusability
•    Integration Patterns: Implement enterprise integration patterns for seamless system connectivity
•    Data Architecture: Design data flow architectures ensuring data consistency, security, and compliance
•    Cloud Strategy: Contribute to cloud adoption strategies, implementing cloud-native patterns and practices

Business processes
Contract Management Domain Expertise
•    Business Analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand contract lifecycle management requirements
•    Process Optimization: Identify opportunities for process automation and efficiency improvements
•    Regulatory Compliance: Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, audit requirements, and internal policies
•    Client Coverage Support: Develop solutions that enhance client relationship management and coverage effectiveness

Stakeholder Engagement
•    Requirements Gathering: Lead requirements gathering sessions with business users, ensuring clear understanding and documentation
•    Solution Presentation: Present technical solutions to business stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into business value
•    Change Management: Support business change management initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption of new systems and processes

Conduct & stakeholder management
Leadership & People Management
•    Team Development: Mentor junior developers, conduct performance reviews, and create individual development plans
•    Knowledge Sharing: Organize technical sessions, code reviews, and best practice sharing within the squad and broader organization
•    Succession Planning: Identify and develop potential successors, ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity
•    Culture Building: Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning

Stakeholder Management
•    Executive Communication: Provide regular updates to senior management on project progress, risks, and achievements
•    Cross-functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with Product, Operations, Risk, and Compliance teams
•    Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and technology partners
•    Client Interaction: Participate in client meetings when technical expertise is required

Conduct & Compliance
•    Code of Conduct: Ensure adherence to Standard Chartered’ s Code of Conduct and Ethics across all activities
•    Risk Management: Implement appropriate risk controls in all technical solutions, ensuring operational resilience
•    Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all solutions comply with relevant banking regulations and internal policies
•    Information Security: Implement security best practices, conduct security reviews, and ensure data protection compliance

Key performance indicators
Delivery Excellence
•    Sprint commitment achievement rate (>90%)
•    Code quality metrics (test coverage >80%, zero critical vulnerabilities)
•    Production incident reduction (target: <2 critical incidents per quarter)
•    Feature delivery timeline adherence (>95%)

Technical Leadership
•    Team skill development (measured through competency assessments)
•    Architecture decision documentation and approval rate
•    Technology adoption and modernization initiatives led
•    Code review participation and quality feedback

Business Impact
•    Business stakeholder satisfaction scores (>4.5/5)
•    Process automation and efficiency improvements delivered
•    Regulatory compliance audit results (zero findings)
•    Client-facing feature adoption rates

Career development & growth
Continuous Learning
•    Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and banking regulations
•    Pursue relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, Spring, React, etc.)
•    Participate in internal and external technical communities
•    Contribute to Standard Chartered’ s technical strategy and innovation initiatives

Leadership Development
•    Develop advanced leadership and communication skills
•    Participate in cross-functional projects and initiatives
•    Build expertise in business domains beyond immediate scope
•    Prepare for progression to Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager roles

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Computer Information
•    AWS/Azure certifications are good to have

Skills and Experience

•    Data structure and Algorithms 
•    Java/J2EE
•    Spring, Hibernate, Aspects and Apache Libraries (Camel/ActiveMQ/Commons)
•    Spring Boot
•    REACT
•    Web Service (SOAP/REST/GRPC) or Messaging using JMS, Kafka.
•    JEE specifications like JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JPA
•    PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL, BPM products like jBPM or Camunda etc.
•    Jenkins/Go-CD, Git/Stash, JIRA, Maven, NodeJS
•    AWS DevOps tools like Terraforms/AMI Bakery, Ansible, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift and service Mesh.
•    JUnit/QUnit
•    Application servers/containers JBoss Fuse, Tomcat etc
•    Linux/Unix environments

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.