JOB SUMMARY

Role Requirements:

• This role is expected to lead the full tribe of development squads working on the multiple aspects of this domain and future strategic areas (on smart contracts and tokenization).  
• Trusted business partner to manage multiple programs & projects within this domain.  Provide technical leadership and guidance in Digital Ledger Technologies (DLT) related solutioning. 
• Provide technical leadership and guidance in Digital Ledger Technologies (DLT) related solutioning.
• Build & maintain blockchain protocols, smart contracts, tokenization modules and consensus algorithms.
• Ensure security, integrity, and scalability of blockchain solutions.
• Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in blockchain applications and systems.
• Suggest blockchain development processes and best practices.
• Understand enterprise integration patterns, suggest, and collaborate with other departments to provide appropriate solutions based on business requirements.  
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Represent the Platforms TTO organization in various review forums, including but not limited solution architects, security architects, networking and data centre teams, compliance, legal, regulators, product partners and clients as required.

Skill Requirements:

• 15 years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise solutions. 
• 5 years of experience in designing and implementing DLT / Blockchain solutions.
• Strong understanding of blockchain technologies, distributed ledger, and smart contracts and tokenization flows.
• Knowledge of cryptography and blockchain protocols.
• Familiarity with P2P networks, zero knowledge proofs, staking and consensus algorithms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think analytically.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of financial services, payments, and cryptocurrency industries.
• A strong understanding of security best practices for building enterprise applications.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Solidity, Daml, Java, JavaScript, Rust, NodeJS, Go, or Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud services (AWS or Azure)
• Experience with DevOps practices (Ci /CD)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Design, Plan and Deploy the Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform. Ensure legacy and future blockchain/ DLT solutions are offered strategically off the BaaS platform. 

Business

• This is at a minimum a pan-CIB responsibility and likely a pan-Bank responsibility. The tech lead needs to constantly keep the needs of multiple CIB (and bank wide) businesses in mind to ensure the platform is fit for use across use case.

Processes

• Embed the ESDLC standards throughout the lifecycle of the product.
• Understand the process requirements (group, regional, regulatory) based on the type of solution and guide the team to plan and deliver the requirements.
• Establish and maintain a process to distribute work and manage efficiency within the hive.

People & Talent

• A leader who can motivate and navigate the team through stressful periods.
• Responsible for effective capacity management to deliver the business needs.
• An engineer at heart who can guide the team on challenging problems.
• Accountable for capability development of the team
• Monitor team performance regularly and help them to improve where necessary.
   

Risk Management

• Drive for closure of risks and audit / operational findings on time.
• Responsible for effective capacity management to drive risks to closure.
• Motivate the team to avoid deploying solutions with risks (manual or temporary fixes)
• Educate the team on the need for continuous management of risks.

Governance

• Ensure all artefacts are compliant with all applicable SC governance frameworks (e.g., ESDLC, Cloud Governance, etc.)
• Stay aware and updated on the applicable governance framework based on group and regional policies.

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• Primary Stakeholder: CPO, POs from Platform and Partnerships team
• Other major stakeholders: Architecture teams, CISO, API Banking team, Product teams, technology 2nd line teams

Our Ideal Candidate    

• Training     Blockchain related and cloud related training and licenses and certification will be of advantage

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• REST / API / Microservices and Spring boot
• Event streaming, Kafka, MQ, Solace
• SQL / NoSQL/ Data stores
   

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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