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Job Summary

The Application Platform team sitting in Technology & Architecture organization are seeking Software Engineer with 8 or more years of experience to work on in-house developed application platform.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
Understand the bank’s application platform strategy and implementing automation solutions to deliver the bank’s application platform strategy. 
Business
This role will work alongside with our Service Bench Management team to build industry leading feature capability.
Processes
Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement.  
People & Talent
Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.
Risk Management
Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.
Governance
Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.
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
Service Bench Management
Head of Solution Delivery
Technology Assurance Owners
Delivery leads

Qualifications

We expect our team members to be better than the average Developer or Engineer, as our role is to fix what they cannot, to solve the problems they think are impossible, and to guide them through solutions or approaches.

The soft skills we are looking for include:
Eagerness to learn – curious, self-learning, then applying
Problem Solving Skills – Creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking
Big-Picture Thinking – maintainability, testability, usability, performance etc.
Positive Attitude – passion for the task and achieving a solution
Communication Skills – explain, influence, listen, document thinking
Independence - Ability to work and deliver unsupervised, a self-starter
Discipline - to chase down solutions to resolution, to deliver quality
The hard:
8+ years of experience working as a software engineer
API development & own API technical implementation in a scrum team
Design & development of cross functional API & multi-platform application systems
Experienced developer who developed REST API, serverless and event driven applications, FaaS
Hands-on experience in Java, Quarkus, GraphQL, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin
Collaborate with other platforms to ensure integrated end-to-end design & delivery of projects.
Experience in micro services architecture
Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2, Azure AKS as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible
Experience with KNative, Hasura, JWT, Helm
Experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plan is highly desirable
Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
Highly Desirable:
Full-stack development experience
Breadth of technical knowledge – operating systems, networking, distributed computing, cloud as well as development 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.