Job Description
Strategy
• Development lead for time critical and highly visible regulatory application to strategize and implement regulatory commitments as well as maintaining and improving Live projects stability.
• Give Technical guidance to the developers of the scrum team.
Business
• Understand business purpose of user stories and estimate development tasks to fulfil the story.
• Work directly with product owners on technical stories and further define the details on how the story should be implemented.
Processes
• Optimize application code for maximum speed and scalability.
• Integrate software components and third-party codebase.
• Enforce Technical processes, standards and best practices to the team.
People and Talent
• Lead team towards meeting project objectives and initiatives. Not a people leader role but the role must display leadership qualities and coach the junior team members.
Risk Management
• Maintaining excellent relationships and communication with Global stakeholders, other IT teams, product and application owners, and vendors.
Regulatory and 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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.
Key Stakeholders
• Regulatory Operations, Support Operations and Distributed Architecture teams.
Our Ideal Candidate
• BE / BTech and / or MBA from reputed university, preferably in Computer Science / Information Technology discipline.
• 8 years of relevant experience (overall 12 years of experience).
• A committed technologist to design solutions for complex problems. Hands-on with the team to code and test solutions.
• Excellent Leadership and superior communication skills must have for this role.
• Prior experience in working in a leading bank (or) investment banking is a plus.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Software design and application Architecture
• Proficient in Core Java, Maven and Git
• Solid understanding of Web services, REST APIs, Message queue, Distributed / Scalable Architecture
• Working experience in CI / CD pipeline (Sonar, Jenkins)
• Experience working with (or) designing Restful APIs
• Work experience in Agile development methodologies
• Experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure will be a plus
• Experience in Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
About Standard Chartered
Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Candidates for Lead| Development position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Mumbai, offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
