Job Summary

•    At least 15+ Years of overall experience in technology organization - Software Development Life Cycle (Solutioning & Design, Development, Testing, Production Support, etc.) and Vendor Management. 
•    This role involves designing and implementing strategies to support the adoption of changes in business processes, systems, and technologies.
•    works closely with project teams, stakeholders, and leadership to identify and mitigate risks, manage resistance, and ensure successful delivery outcomes.
•    Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
•    Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
•    Strong knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high level of customer trust and confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Business
Responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads. 
•    Works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.
•    Point of escalation for delivery issues across all impacted hives and squads.
•    Work with Change Delivery Manager (Release Manager) to develop delivery and release plans with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the team and architect.
•    Exhibit passion for client experience with a user-first mindset.
Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards. 

Processes
•    Study existing engineering processes and contribute to improvements to drive up efficiencies. Present ideas across other areas and foster innovation.
•    Analyze, remove, or mitigate dependencies across teams to enable speed and quality of delivery.
•    Responsible in the preparation of production outputs and their planning in alignment to ESDLC standards. 
•    Vendor Data Management - reviewing the data handling practices from the vendor to ensure they adhere to the data protection regulation and best practices defined by Standard Chartered bank. 

Risk Management
•    Stay up to date on organization’s policies and processes on Development, Monitoring and QA standards, identify gaps in Current Process/Functionalities, Automation & QA Scope/Strategy and provide solutions to plug the gaps for effective functioning of the application.
•    Track existing application risks (documented vulnerabilities and non-compliance) and ensure to address them on priority in the earliest possible opportunity.

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.

Key stakeholders
•    Business & Tech Hive Leads,
•    Domain and functional architects
•    Other Tech & delivery teams involved in the program,
•    Scrum of Scrum SPOCs,
•    Vendors & PSS Team as and when necessary.

Skills and Experience

•    At least 15+ Years of overall experience in technology organization - Software Development Life Cycle (Solutioning & Design, Development, Testing, Production Support, etc.) and Vendor Management. 
•    Added advantage if candidate has prior working experience in FM, CCIB and Surveillance
•    Good Knowledge in Automating Deployment of Vendor Products with a need to run custom scripts for additional customization.
•    Very Good communication and interpersonal skills to manage senior stakeholders and top management.
•    Technical Knowledge: Java / Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, REST, JSON, Netflix Micro Services suite ( Zuul / Eureka / Hystrix etc., ), 12 Factor Apps, Oracle, PostgresSQL, Cassandra & ELK
•    Education - Bachelors or Equivalent/Higher. 

Development: Good Knowledge and/or working experience in;
      • Designing, developing and maintaining Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripts based applications.
      • Developing JMS and REST APIs, DevOps (ADO preferred), Containerization and Orchestration using Kubernetes.
      • ADO Repo, CI/CD Pipeline for fully automated build (Maven) & deployment.
      • Infrastructure as Code (including Infra, DB, Network, etc.)
      • UT Automation (JUnit or equivalent), Prior experience in supporting Performance Testing and Tuning to meet PT Goals.
      • TLS 1.2, OAuth2 Authentication, LDAP/OUD/FRDS/AD, MFA-SSO with SAML, Oracle TDE DB Encryption, Tokenization and File Encryption
      • Ensuring Code Quality & Security with SonarQube or equivalent.

• Quality Assurance: Good Knowledge and/or working experience in testing of;
      • JMS and REST APIs, DevOps (ADO preferred), Containerization and Orchestration using Kubernetes.
      • ADO Repo, CI/CD Pipeline for fully automated build & deployment of Automated Testing Suites.
      • Creating and maintaining Simulators and Stubs needed for testing.
      • Automated Daily Status Reports for Testing and integration.
      • Performing PT for JMS, REST APIs, Web Browser based Web Applications.
      • ADO Repo, CI/CD Pipeline for fully automated build & deployment of Automated Performance Testing Suites.
      • Preferred Tools like JMeter, HP Load Runner or equivalent.
      • Using additional tools to monitor performance, tune settings and troubleshoot issues.
      • Peak, Soak and Stress Testing of all interdependent applications.
      • Preparing NFRs, Testing Strategy, Testing Plan and Generating Reports with Test Results and Evidence.

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.