About our Architecture, Technology Solutions and App Development Team

Want to be part of a team that focuses on what we can do instead of what’s already been done? This is your opportunity.  From BlockChain to AWS, deep learning and AI, you’ll work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to decide the different ways you want to grow – whether that’s by gaining diverse skills on a new project or deepening your expertise on innovative tech. Join us and you’ll find diverse paths, projects and people that inspire you to think outside-the-box and change the way people everywhere experience our products and services.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   
 

Job Summary

The Tech Lead is responsible for overseeing the technical delivery of projects, with a focus of in-country solution deliveries in the assigned area. This role is heavily involved in leading cross-functional deliveries from both Group and In-Country Solution teams cutting across different Business domains from CIB, WRB and Functions, coordinating the team in implementing technical solutions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements. It requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and stakeholder management to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and manage the technical aspects of projects, ensuring on-time delivery within scope and budget.
• Collaborate with project managers to define technical deliverables, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Monitor progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Lead and coordinate the technical direction and oversight for the design, development, and implementation of solutions.
• Ensure the architectural decisions and system designs meet scalability, reliability, and security requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers and stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication and ensure alignment between business and technical teams.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify objectives, and communicate technical challenges and solutions.
• Present project updates, risks, and outcomes to management and stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

Leadership Skills:

• Strong Project Management skills.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

Technical Skills:

• Solid understanding of software deployment practice. Banking application development experience is highly preferred.
• Experience with Agile/ Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices.

Communication Skills:

• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with Fluent English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Advanced Knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Experience with Agile / Scrum delivery methodology and related tools
• Advanced knowledge of object-oriented programming languages and concepts (Python, Java, Golang, etc..)
• Experience with microservices, API-first, event-driven, agent-based architecture and design
• Knowledge in DevOps – CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), orchestration (Ansible/Salt)
• Knowledge of different aspects of service design: including messaging protocols and behaviour, caching strategies and software design practices
• Knowledge of infrastructure (networking, hypervisors, storage, security) - experience working with a private cloud is a plus
• Experience with test automation with common test frameworks; and performance / load testing techniques at scale
• Experience with metrics collection, time series queries, middleware such as Telegraf, and backends such as OpenTSDB or Prometheus
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Kibana and Grafana

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.