Job Summary

The Lead, Development will be a key member of Trade IT Development team for both Backend and Frontend (full stack) responsible for managing Agile Development teams and ensuring delivery of high-quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. The role holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme.

Key Responsibilities

Software Delivery 
Primary
•    Represent the team to management and management to the team
•    Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team
•    Responsible for teaching and coaching Scrum values and practices
•    Ensure adherence to delivery schedules and attendance at Daily Stand-up meetings
•    Monitor Sprint tasks to ensure success and timely delivery.
•    Schedule Sprint Reviews at the end of each sprint with the Product Owner
•    Schedule and facilitate Sprint and Release Planning meetings
•    Regularly and physically meets with the team members

Secondary
•    Create detailed design specifications and develop software applications based on requirements.
•    Conduct unit testing and integration testing to ensure software quality and performance.
•    Maintain comprehensive documentation of the design, development process, and code.
•    Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues and bugs.
•    Optimize software for performance, scalability, and security.
•    Stay updated with emerging technologies and continuously improve skills and processes.
•    Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge.
•    Provide ongoing support and maintenance for existing applications.

Strategy
Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business
Awareness and understanding of Trade Finance, the wider business, economic, and market environment in which the Group operates.

Processes
•    Ensure adherence to Systems Development Framework and control processes.
•    Ensure delivery of all software artefacts

People & 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.
•    Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
•    Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management
Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s risk management processes and practices.

Governance
Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s governance frameworks applicable to Trade Finance and practices that support them.

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.

Key stakeholders
•    CIB Trade ITO Team

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in SG TB Trade – Platform Engineering. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications

Educational Qualification/Certification:
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
•    JAVA Certification preferred

Mandatory Skills:
•    Experience in managing Agile Delivery Teams 
•    Latest technology architectures and design – Micro services, Web and Mobile applications  
•    Cloud-Native application deployments and Containers (Docker)
•    Exceptional troubleshooting and investigative skills. In possession of a strong sense of ownership and accountability
•    The ability to manage competing priorities from a variety of stakeholders. 
•    Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities 
•    Should have participated in, and be familiar with, SDLC and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies 

Proficiency in: 
•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Technical Stack (BE): Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML, 
•    Technical Tools: Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij 
•    Technical Stack (UI): JavaScript, React, Bootstrap 3+, Typescript 2+, CSS/SCSS, HTML5, Nodejs, TypeScript, Web Components, Git, Websockets, Karma, Jasmine, Cypress

Optional Skills: 
•    Strong presentation and communication skills 
•    Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs 
•    Experience in event driven architectures (CQRS and SAGA patterns).
•    Build Tools (Gulp, and webpack), Jenkins, Docker, Automation, Bash, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana 

Prior Experience:
•    Relevant experience of 10+ years
•    Banking/FinTech experience preferred
•    Experience with github copilot for coding assistance is a plus
•    Experience with Forward Engineering methodology is a plus

Skills and Experience

•    Micro-services development using Springboot
•    Java, Spring, Spring Cloud
•    Frontend UI Technical Stack such as JavaScript, React JS, Bootstrap 3+, Typescript 2+, CSS/SCSS, HTML5, Nodejs, TypeScript, Web Components, Git, Websockets, Karma, Jasmine, Cypress
•    Virtualization, Containerisation, and Orchestration (AWS, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
•    Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) and Automation (Jenkins, Ansible)
•    Project Management
•    Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML
•    NoSQL and RDBMS (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch)
•    Confluence/Azure DevOps or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA
•    Software Development

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.