Job Summary

Trust is the first of a new breed of banks in Singapore – digitally native and focused on delivering a delightful ustomer experience.  You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to solve new and interesting challenges each day. Together with our Trust team, you will help shape the future of our bank and be able to work on and solve many interesting challenges which we are facing, learn new ways of working, and help build delightful high-quality products for our customers.
As a Solution Architect you'd be able to work on and solve some of the many interesting challenges we are facing, learn new ways of working, and build delightful high-quality products for our customers.

•    Understands retail banking business domains, specifically in the financial products space, and transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created. Need to propose new innovative solutions, updates to existing solutions, negotiate alternative options, build technical and release roadmaps
•    Construct a solution architecture around Microservices and APIs, and be able to decompose monolith applications into meaningful implementable Microservices and APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment
•    Work closely with the development team and get their buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented. Also, work with different stake holders, product owner, senior executives, external parties like system integrators, product partners.
•    Provide technology perspective to business to achieve roadmap and prioritization by keeping abreast with industry trends. Where required, help business size the complexity of problem and help simplify and define MVP
•    Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the development project
•    Understand and comply with Information Security standards, methodologies and practices.
 

Key Responsibilities

  Work with business stakeholders and challenge the norm when necessary to bring creative solutions to the table
•    Predict timelines ahead of schedule and potential issues with a view to having a plan ready to tackle and solve them
•    Trouble-shoot technical problems faced by the project team
•    Ensure key technology governance process are executed on time, ensuring alignment to technology related guidelines set out by the regulator/industry bodies.
•    Ensure the wider technology team is aligned to the implementation of defined architecture patterns, and keep the pattern documentation up to date.
•    Ensure the wider technology team is aligned to the Non Functional Requirements that are managed by the Architecture team

People & Talent
•    12+ years of experience in the technology industry including 6+ in architecture of scalable and high-performance internet facing systems
•    Have in depth knowledge in the Retail Banking Domain is highly critical to the success of the role.
•    Possess strong background and experience as a successful Software engineer/Architect in building large scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications.
•    Have in depth knowledge of cloud computing, microservices architecture (incl. design pattern, rest/grpc, gateway & service mesh etc.), DevOps, Streaming architecture, Modern data architecture, Mobile and Web application architecture
•    Good experience in API security including OAuth2/OIDC, Tokens, mTLS etc.
•    Significant experience working on mission critical internet facing applications focusing on scalability, performance, architecture aspects
•    Passion for architecture and ability to pick up and learn new technological advances very quickly
•    Good working experience in Java, Spring, Spring boot, any modern messaging technology, any RDBMS and/or NoSQL
•    Practical knowledge in Agile and DevOps environments, open source technologies and related tools.
•    Adapts to changes in technology and business domains, has good knowledge of latest trends in the market and is well respected within the team
 

Skills and Experience

• cloud computing    
• microservices architecture    
• DepOps    

Qualifications

•    Have in depth knowledge of cloud computing, microservices architecture (incl. design pattern, rest/grpc, gateway & service mesh etc.), DevOps, Streaming architecture, Modern data architecture, Mobile and Web application architecture
•    Good experience in API security including OAuth2/OIDC, Tokens, mTLS etc.
•    Significant experience working on mission critical internet facing applications focusing on scalability, performance, architecture aspects
•    Good working experience in Java, Spring, Spring boot, any modern messaging technology, any RDBMS and/or NoSQL
•    Practical knowledge in Agile and DevOps environments, open-source technologies and related 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.