Job Description
Strategy
There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking - increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
Standard Chartered is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.
The Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management ITO is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency. Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.
Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.
Job Description
The Retail Digital Channels team requires an Agile experienced software delivery lead in the delivery of software assets for the Retail Digital Channels portfolio.
The candidate will assist in the delivery of many strategic programs, enable communication between delivery units and management teams by their work predominately focused on software development.
The candidate will be expected to manage high quality software delivery including the coding of the implementation of those assets for Internet Banking, Mobile and other related channel software deliverables.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be an experienced hands-on Technical Developer with a track record in delivering multiple concurrent, complex projects in a regulated environment, ideally within a financial institution's context.
The candidate should have experience working with teams distributed across multiple countries and experience working with program management teams to implement desired high-quality software assets with flexible prioritisation in a scrum based model.
The successful candidate is expected to
• Work closely with architecture team in resolving technical issues.
• Participate in and drive through system requirements gathering.
• Deliver multiple, complex, critical projects on time successfully.
• Take ownership and accountability of software deliverables.
• Involved in technical solutioning and architecture design.
• Manage dependencies of all technical deliverables.
• Ensure code quality and application stability.
• Strong analytical and problem solving.
• Participate in System impact analysis.
• Good stake holder management.
People and Talent
• Coordinate with resources and teams across different locations.
• Responsible for capability development of the team / unit.
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills.
Governance
• Ensure adherence to Systems Development Framework and control processes.
• Ensure delivery of all software artefacts.
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
• Business and Operations (Product Owners)
• Technology Services Teams
• Production Support Teams
• Interface IT Teams
• Trade IT Team
• Chapter Leads
• Tribe Leads
Our Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience).
• Must have the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills to interact with many different personalities / stakeholders and reach consensus when necessary.
Mandatory Skills
• 8 years of experience in UI / UX development, architecture and solution design.
• Be organised and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure.
• Experience in Service Oriented, Microservices and Cloud native architecture implementations.
• Strong experience in common and reusable components / services development.
• Exhibit hands-on on various NFRs-Non-functional requirement's implementation.
• Data Modelling, tuning of queries, Performance and Throughput measures.
• Web services, API design, Defining Specification using swagger / RAML.
• Have experience in containerization technologies - Docker, Kubernetes.
• Able to manage and create a good rapport with all the interface teams.
• Experience in UI / UX, Java, Spring, Spring boot, Rest Services.
• Security Essentials, application vulnerabilities and remediation.
• Oracle or SQL Server development and designing data model.
• Strong presentation, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent and proven senior stakeholder management skills.
• Good in Stake holder management.
• Hands on experience in UI / UX.
Prior Experience
• Relevant experience of 8 years.
• Banking / FinTech experience.
• Experience of delivering multiple, complex, digital projects in an Agile environment.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Container Technologies (Openshift, Docker, Kuberneties, etc)
• Micro services (Spring boot, REST API, API Gateways)
• Mobile Technologies( IOS, Android, Web)
• DevOps (GIT / Maven, Gradle, Jenkins)
• Cloud Technologies (AWS / Azure)
• Java /Java EE
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 , together with our brand promise, to be are achieved by how we each live our . 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
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Lead | Development 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.
