Job Summary

This is a 12 Months Direct Contract role.    

As an GenAI Engineer in the Enablement team your responsibilities will be to drive adoption of GenAI engineering practices across enterprise development teams (Java, Lit/Web Components, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Python), evolving teams to structured Spec-Driven Development (SDD) integrated across the full SDLC. 

You will be an experienced Java Full-Stack Engineer with experience learning to build with GenAI and championing the approaches, tools & learning that all engineers, product owners, release managers, and SRE team members are going through. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver hands-on workshops for developers on GenAI-assisted coding, testing, and documentation; building progressive learning paths (Chat → Prompt Engineering → SDD → Full SDLC Integration) with stack-specific materials across Java, Lit, Oracle, and PostgreSQL
• Evaluate, configure, and standardise GenAI tooling across teams (IDE extensions, CLI agents, code review assistants); developing reusable spec templates, prompt libraries, and SDD workflows per stack, with conventions for AI-generated artifacts (specs, tests, migrations, documentation).  
• Enterprise Engagement partner with engineering leads to embed SDD practices into existing team workflows and CI/CD pipelines; running pilot programmes with target teams and advising on governance, security, and IP considerations for enterprise GenAI usage. 
• Establish and nurture an internal GenAI engineering community of practice; facilitating knowledge sharing through demos, office hours, internal blogs, and champion networks, while identifying and mentoring GenAI champions within each team to sustain adoption. 
• Define and track adoption KPIs (e.g., SDD usage rates, developer satisfaction, cycle time impact, code quality metrics); reporting on maturity progression across teams and continuously refining the enablement programme based on quantitative and qualitative data. 
• Partner with leading delivery squads to expand the skills, agents and multi agent approaches with a use case that can be an example to other teams 
• Development of automated tools and processes for AI augmented delivery - Develop a highly automated process to enable skills, agents & project prompts to be shared, managed and published widely 
• Collaboration with Teammates – Collaborate with product teams, data engineers, and data scientists to understand SDD and AI development use cases, challenges and improvements 
• Documentation to enable sharing of knowledge and Best Practices - Document and communicate your work clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences for future reference 
• Keeping pace with Agentic Engineering Industry Approaches: Stay up to date on the latest advancements in GenAI AI Tools, Models, Agentic architectures and vendor offerings for building with AI and AI Agents 

Strategy 
•    Supports Hive Tech Lead, Product Area Lead, Product Management and Engineering in strategy of AI Augmented SDLC engineering, roadmap and execution.
•    Deliver outputs that make a significant contribution to the organization's strategic goals.
•    Refactor and deploy AI prototypes with new tools and technologies in support of the strategic requirements of business stakeholders.
•    Partner with internal and external partners (i.e. GitHub, internal platform teams) to determine the right solutions as industry evolves. 

Business
•    Promote engineering craftmanship and focus on delivering business value.
•    Promote GenAI engineering and technical excellence across the squad 
•    Works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.
•    Exhibit passion for client experience with a user-first mindset. 
•    Drive the domain towards future state of banking and technology 

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

People and Talent
•    Work on upskilling of technical expertise of the Engineers to enable them to become more efficient in agentic tools used day-to-day. 
•    Mentoring and training the squad on technical skills to become proficient at developing AI tools,, services and pipelines. 

Risk Management
•    Mitigate delivery risks and issues, and ensure quality, affordability, and scope of delivery.

Governance
•    Support the remediation of  tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements through the delivery lifecycle (design reviews, security reviews, code reviews, SAT, OAT, etc.) with support from HTL(Hive Tech Lead) / PO / CPO (Chief Product Owner)

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
•    Global Head, Credit Origination Technology
•    FFG Technology Programme Manager
•    CIB DC & CP Cross Hive Tech Leads (where applicable)
•    Hive Tech Leads & Product Area Leads, Product Enablement
•    Hive Product Owner, Product Enablement
•    HIVE Architects

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ year Engineering experience in building data-driven applications and 1+ years as a GenAI engineer with any AI Augmented IDEs/Systems
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. 
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python and experience with relevant libraries and frameworks.
• Expert understanding of LLM architecture and concepts 
• Experience working with large language models and AI coding IDEs and systems. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a passion for storytelling. 
• Ability to think creatively and solve problems, adapting to new challenges and changing priorities. 
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail to ideate and optimize GenAI skills and agents 
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a cross-functional team. 
• Familiarity with database systems (such as relational and vector databases) 
• Understanding of DevOps pipeline is a plus 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Full Stack/Back-End Java Engineering
•    Prompt & Context Engineering
•    GenAI Augmented Engineering with SDD
•    Engineering – Python / SQL
•    Data Science
•    Communication
•    DevOps
•    Problem Solving 

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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