Job Description
The Role Responsibilities
Job Role
• Take an active role and work with team on re-architecting, optimize system performance, availability, security as well as leverage, re-use and solve for technical problems when they arise.
• Lead Application / Technical Architect to Plan, design applications and oversee projects to ensure that right architecture is implemented for Treasury systems.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Lead Developers and Testers, Info security and group architecture to implement effective solutions.
• Coaching our engineers, leverage the Engineering Career Path, play a leading role in supporting hiring new engineers.
• Ensure governance and reduce time to market by embracing automation DevOps / CICD, SRE by design.
• Communicate technology strategy, architecture, system requirements to software development teams.
• Work towards Improving the system architecture by tracking emerging technologies, tool-stacks.
• Develop technical strategy, Define Technical Standards, tools, and techniques.
• Enable Cloud Journey for application platforms.
• Re-engineer ETL design for Data Domain.
Strategy
• Understand and apply the technical architecture design principles and standards, adopt bank wide strategic initiatives like cloud, technology policy and standards.
Business
• Accountable to ensure the required technical parameters are set to business user's needs. Design the user-friendly applications with high performing and accurate output to meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
Processes
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
People and Talent
• Build the appropriate culture and values to be a role model. Acquire new skills to keep up the system update to date and to align bank wide new initiatives.
Risk Management
• Adhere the risk management requirements and proactively manage and keep the stakeholder informed on the remediation plans.
Governance
• Adhere the application governance requirements and proactively manage and keep the stakeholders informed on the remediation plans.
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
• Treasury Risks, Treasury Markets, Finance
Our Ideal Candidate
• 10 years of experience in Technology (Architecting, Engineering, Design and Implementation of the applications / product in the Banking domain.
• Good knowledge of current technological trends, including cloud native applications, hands-on experience on RDBMS, In-memory computing tools, ETL tools, Vendor products, Cloud Computing, Data engineering patterns involving data virtualization using data mesh patterns, IT security standards.
• Proven experience as Data Architect, engineer, and ability to conduct technology analysis, research, code-reviews, guidance to developers.
• Effective interpersonal skills, communication skills to articulate at different levels, aptitude for creative problem solving, drive innovation.
• Experience in designing and building platform e2e using CI / CD pipelines.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Tableau, Power Bi, SAC, MicroStrategy, Dataiku,
• Java, Hadoop, Spark / Scala, ReactJS
• Oracle DB and PL / SQL
• Moody's analytics, SAP
• DataStage, Talend
• AWS, Azure cloud
• DevOps (CI / CD)
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
Job Role
• Take an active role and work with team on re-architecting, optimize system performance, availability, security as well as leverage, re-use and solve for technical problems when they arise.
• Lead Application / Technical Architect to Plan, design applications and oversee projects to ensure that right architecture is implemented for Treasury systems.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Lead Developers and Testers, Info security and group architecture to implement effective solutions.
• Coaching our engineers, leverage the Engineering Career Path, play a leading role in supporting hiring new engineers.
• Ensure governance and reduce time to market by embracing automation DevOps / CICD, SRE by design.
• Communicate technology strategy, architecture, system requirements to software development teams.
• Work towards Improving the system architecture by tracking emerging technologies, tool-stacks.
• Develop technical strategy, Define Technical Standards, tools, and techniques.
• Enable Cloud Journey for application platforms.
• Re-engineer ETL design for Data Domain.
Strategy
• Understand and apply the technical architecture design principles and standards, adopt bank wide strategic initiatives like cloud, technology policy and standards.
Business
• Accountable to ensure the required technical parameters are set to business user's needs. Design the user-friendly applications with high performing and accurate output to meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
Processes
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
People and Talent
• Build the appropriate culture and values to be a role model. Acquire new skills to keep up the system update to date and to align bank wide new initiatives.
Risk Management
• Adhere the risk management requirements and proactively manage and keep the stakeholder informed on the remediation plans.
Governance
• Adhere the application governance requirements and proactively manage and keep the stakeholders informed on the remediation plans.
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
• Treasury Risks, Treasury Markets, Finance
Our Ideal Candidate
• 10 years of experience in Technology (Architecting, Engineering, Design and Implementation of the applications / product in the Banking domain.
• Good knowledge of current technological trends, including cloud native applications, hands-on experience on RDBMS, In-memory computing tools, ETL tools, Vendor products, Cloud Computing, Data engineering patterns involving data virtualization using data mesh patterns, IT security standards.
• Proven experience as Data Architect, engineer, and ability to conduct technology analysis, research, code-reviews, guidance to developers.
• Effective interpersonal skills, communication skills to articulate at different levels, aptitude for creative problem solving, drive innovation.
• Experience in designing and building platform e2e using CI / CD pipelines.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Tableau, Power Bi, SAC, MicroStrategy, Dataiku,
• Java, Hadoop, Spark / Scala, ReactJS
• Oracle DB and PL / SQL
• Moody's analytics, SAP
• DataStage, Talend
• AWS, Azure cloud
• DevOps (CI / CD)
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Lead| Architect position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Chennai 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.
