Job Summary

We are looking for Strong hands on engineering lead for Credit Grading Hive in PE Sub-Domain . This role will be highly delivery-oriented role with strong design / architecture background so that will be intendent in designing and building the capability with help from delivery teams based in India. The person will be hired to lead the key stream within Scorecard & Model program which has been commissioned to automate and expand existing scorecard capability supported by Grading Hive. The ideal candidate will be someone who will manage the delivery independently working cohesively with product & delivery teams and will act as bridge for collaboration needed for such program. 

The person will drive the solution design, architecture and execution of developing new scorecard capability aligned with Service-bench design & Ui-Ux principles and target architecture .  This is a strategic role to provide overall technical leadership and direction  encouraging innovation and improvement in the technology and data systems, processes and ways of working.

As an Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of multiple teams, providing technical guidance, and ensuring the successful completion of large projects. You will play a crucial role in mentoring and developing the career growth of the team members, as well as managing traditional project management tasks. Much of their time is also spent building and developing squads , tech leads and relevant communities in their space.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Advice future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends and regulatory requirements
•    Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

Impact & Value: 
•     Re-engineer legacy applications and build state of the art platform
•     Envision Credit Origination 2.0 platform and align it with Bank’s NextGen technology vision
•     Consistently leads delivery of valuable features 
•     Continually looking for process improvements 
•     Proposes new ways of doing things 
•     Suggests novel ways to fulfil requirements 
•     Helps elaborate requirements where necessary 
Programming: 
•    In depth knowledge of IDE, language and toolset in language of choice. 
•    Excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath 
•     Understanding of threads, threading model and concurrent programming 
•     Can profile and optimize code 
•     Good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them 
•     Comfortable debugging/finding complex problems 

Design: 
•    Can identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems. 
•     Comfortable developing large features 
•     Understands Idempotence 
•     Understands boy scout principle. Leaves code in a better state then when arrived 
•     Good understanding of cohesion, SOLID and how to apply 
•     Writes clean, maintainable code 
•     Understands importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context 
•     Anticipates medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly 
•     Understands & appreciates simplicity & the value of removing code 
•     Understands design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency 
•     Understands how to design for performance at all levels 

Development Practice: 
•     Automates everything by default 
•     Can build a CD pipeline 
•     Automates security scanning and performance testing as part of build
•     Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals 
•    Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review), set and monitor team standards.
•    Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
•    Focus on reliability, performance and availability

Infrastructure : 
•     Good grasp of multiple operating systems 
•     Good grasp of scripting techniques 
•     Expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply  other technologies 
•     Understands and can automate paas technologies 
•     Understands when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies. 
•     Understanding of network communications, including TCP/IP, HTTP protocols

Security: 
•    Ensure team writes Secure code by default 
•     Can use tools (nmap/metasploit etc.) to perform deep security probes 
•     Understands server hardening 
•     Understating of security principles using SSL protocols and data encryption
Business: 
•    Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
•    Understand and Recommend business flows and translate them to API Ecosystem . 
•    Hands-on experience in building U/I in Service-bench tech stack. 
•    Knowing Credit Origination Business process would be big plus especially Moody’s Creditlens product. 
Behaviours & Collaboration: 
•     Leads group discussions on design of particular areas 
•     Comfortable presenting information 
•     Gains buy in from team and drives design 
•     Mentors and develops those around them 
•     Understands domain well enough to work with PO to drive value 

Processes

•    Follow the SDF process as per SCB standard
•    Responsible for executing and supervising microservices development to facilitate business capabilities and orchestrate to achieve business outcomes
•    Ensure to follow approved architecture when team designing & developing the product

People and Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. 
•    Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people, and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
•    Shares knowledge with wider community

Risk Management

The ability to interpret the Portfolio Key Risks, 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 role

Regulatory and 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

•    Product Owners, Hive Leads, Client Coverage Tech and Biz Stakeholders, Domain Architects , CPO 

Other Responsibilities

•    Project Delivery: Oversee the delivery of 3 to 4 teams, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
•    Mentorship: Invest in the career growth of team members by providing mentorship, training, and development opportunities.
•    Problem Solving: Work shoulder to shoulder with agile teams to solve technical problems and remove obstacles.
•    Project Management: Manage traditional project management tasks such as scope guarding, stakeholder management, vendor management , contract management , risk management, communication, and status reporting.
•    Scrum of Scrums: Facilitate and manage scrum of scrums to ensure the successful delivery of large projects.
•    Product Area Lead: Assisting Hive tech Lead in assisting in tasks such as BRP , new Capacity on-boarding , status reports , comms etc. across hive . 

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years experience in designing and delivering banking application.
• Knowledge about Credit Origination, client scorecards & Credit Gading process will be a big plus.
• Web services, API design, Defining Specification using swagger/RAML.
• Dev Ops Tools and CI/CD Processes –GitFlow,  BitBucket etc.
• Experience with automated test configuration.
• Good to have experience in containerization technologies – Kubernetes
• Service Bench On-boarding , exp building U/Is in LIT framework
• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Participates in development of multiple or large software products and estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
• Must have advanced knowledge on hosting platforms like – Kubernetes/Openshift/AWS EKS
• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
• Understanding of continuous build concept and usage with maven, sonarqube or other related tools

Roles Specific Technical Competencies

• Hands on knowledge on GenAI such as Git-Hub Co-Pilot
• Java/ J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate
• Reporting tools – OBIEE
• BI tools - Informatica
• Hands-on skills in J2EE specifications like JAX-RS, JAX-WS
• Cloud Solutions –  Openshift or AWS
• Containers Management –using tools like Docker, Rocket and Drawbridge
• Elastic Scaling – using tools like Nginx, HAProxy or PAAS like Openshift
• Dynamic Discover – using tools like Zookeeper or Etcd
• Configuration Management – using tools like Zookeeper, Etcd, Spring, Puppet/Chef, Ansible
• Continuous Integration – using tools like Maven and Jenkins
• Continuous Deployment – using tools like Jenkins, Nolio or Go
• Assembly Development – using frameworks like Apache Camel or Node.js
• UI Development – using frameworks like Node.js, REACT, AngularJS or Backbone
• IDL Definition – using tools like RAML or Swagger
• Code Development – using IDE’s like Eclipse or IntelliJ
• Web API’s – for Information Exchange
• Collaboration – using tools like Git-Hub and JIRA
• Hands experience and Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Strong in Oracle or SQL Server PL/SQL development and designing data model.

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.

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