Job Summary

As a senior developer, you will play a critical role in the development and deployment of AI-empowered applications based on the Service Bench Platform and K8S. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize innovative solutions that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance business processes and user experiences. The candidate must be taking a balanced view on delivery of solutions between architecture, time, cost and quality and be able to communicate effectively to non-technical audiences and stakeholders. We are looking for talented individuals to join us and grow together.

Key Responsibilities

•    Design, develop, and maintain scalable application using Java/python.
•    Collaborate with other engineers to integrate systems.
•    Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and security.
•    Document processes and workflows for transparency.

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
•    Responsible for the system architecture, development, build and deployment processes of the resilience solutions to be delivered.

People & Talent
•    Hands on popular development experience in Java/Python
•    Possess AI engineering capabilities, familiar with Prompt Engineering, Workflow orchestration, and Agent development.
•    Experience in developing AI applications such as image, speech, and text recognition is preferred.
•    Familiar with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and related technologies (such as Server Sent Events, etc.)
•    Familiar with RAG, preferably with LLM or VLM
•    Familiar with Redis, Memory Cache and MQ such like Rabbit MQ, Kafka.
•    Experience with AI frameworks and tools (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
•    Contribute to execute the technical strategy and roadmap for their area of product responsibility
•    Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to achieve successful delivery of high-quality software products
•    Work with business to translate roadmap features / requirements into manageable components/tasks, estimate timings and resources, suggest solutions and identify possible risks
•    Owns quality of work ensuring it meets the quality standards of the Bank
•    Strong English communication skills

Risk Management
•    The ability to interpret the Group’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the rol


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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key stakeholders

•    CN Business Teams: WRB, CIB, Functions
•    CN Operations Teams
•    Group/ CN Application Development & Support Teams 

Qualifications

•    EDUCATION: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
•    LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, CHINESE 

Skills and Experience

•    Experience with AI frameworks and tools (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
•    Python/Java
•    Experience in developing AI applications such as image, speech, and text recognition is preferred.
•    LLM/RAG
•    Knowledge in DevOps – CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), orchestration (Ansible/Salt)
•    Knowledge of different aspects of service design: including messaging protocols and behaviour, caching strategies and software design practices
•    Knowledge of infrastructure (networking, hypervisors, storage, security) - experience working with a private cloud is a plus 

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.