Job Summary

This role is part of a team tasked to manage on-prem infrastructure estate. The team is in charge of knowing the estate’s composition, controlling it and optimizing it. The team should know what products are in use, where, why and ensure usage meets Bank standards across the Bank’s global footprint. The role requires developing innovative solutions to allow visibility of usage of our products and the roll-out of improvements. 

The experienced candidate should come from a strong software engineering and development background. The selected candidate will have code development, solution engineering and BAU responsibilities. The individual should be used to do software version control, producing documentation and agile workload management. 

Key Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing high-quality, scalable software solutions.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Design, and develop innovative solutions to allow visibility of usage of our products and the roll-out of improvements.
• Write and test code, refining and rewriting it as necessary and communicate with stakeholders.
• Integrate existing software products and get incompatible platforms to work together.
• Enable dashboard visualizations of estate management initiatives.
• Apply end-to-end observability principles to estate management.
• Curate estate asset inventory.
• Drive estate cost optimization.
• Identify and drive vendor spend efficiencies.
• Drive obsolescence remediation.
• Drive non-standard remediation.
• Drive non-strategic technology retirement and strategic technology adoption.
• Drive estate management process improvements.
• Police non-compliant usage of technology products.
• Coordinate remediation actions between internal and external stakeholders.
• Track delivery through user stories and story boards.
• Version control estate management related code.
• Produce and maintain estate management documentation.
• Taking ownership of projects from conception to delivery, ensuring successful outcomes.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer/Dev Lead in the Banking industry.
• Extensive experience in developing in Python (preferably), or other common programming language (Java, Javascript, Go, etc), and a proven track record of successful projects.
• Experience working with a wide range of technology infrastructure, virtualization platforms, operating systems, server hardware, storage, data centres, cloud.
• Capable of building new features and functionality as well as update and improve existing code.
• Front-end and back-end code development.
• Technical understanding of front-end web technologies, operating systems and platforms.
• Data driven individual.
• Diagnostic skills for identifying why programs that do not meet requirements and how to improve them.
• Problem-solving for improving programs and resolving bugs.
• Ability to collaborate with a large and diverse variety of stakeholders.
• Self-starter with excellent communication skills oral and written in English.
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and deliver.

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.