Job Description
Job : Technology
Primary Location : Asia-India-Chennai
Schedule : Full-time
Employee Status : Permanent
Posting Date : 06/Jul/2026, 6:34:56 AM
Unposting Date : Ongoing
The Role Responsibilities
Job Role
Effectively manage multiple Stakeholder demands and expectations while maintaining quality and delivery of support operations.
Effectively lead team of SRE Engineers and transform traditional support operations to SRE Mindset.
Implement Automation and self-healing of applications.
Implement Client Centric Monitoring and Observability based on End user needs.
Provide quality of Service as per Service Level Objectives and effectively manage Operational Level Agreements with upstream / downstream systems.
Maintain Change Velocity vs Stability Balance with an effective Error Budget for application.
Implement Incident Management Practices with blameless Post mortems and driving repeated Incident Themes to closure. Regular review of Alerting, Incidents and reducing their end user business impacts.
Engage Scrum teams and communicate priorities of Post mortem actions and problem tickets to development / delivery team to prioritise and deliver.
Manage and maintain Cyber Risk, Resilience Risk, Stability Risks of application and drive towards low risk environment. Driving right Security patches implementations in non-prod and prod environments.
Engages with Dev Leads, Test Leads and architects to determine strategic direction in terms of application supportability.
Evaluates and implements new technologies personally, in line with bank strategy.
Documents and publishes standards and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
To manage and run a large scale site reliability initiatives for a particular business stream and executing sleuth of development and Improvement initiatives to support the business vertical's.
Identifies opportunity for optimization and implement.
Ensures the Cloud deployments and activities are automated.
Drive Change approval board for effective change reviews.
Identify and improve monitoring and observability.
Review Production changes for error free implementations.
Identify, plan and drive application optimisations and service Improvements to maintain system stability.
Strategy
To function as the domain expert in the core banking team and support the core banking products roll out from a functionality and capability perspective.
To function as the conduit between end users and the all internal CoreBanking teams in doing development for user requirements based on user stories.
To contribute to product management and release management of the core banking products.
Business
Participate fitment workshops, Understand product requirements from PO and Solution Architect and review the product requirements.
Preparation of Program Specifications for capabilities identified for optimisation based on analysis.
Management of changes to the core banking products to ensure that changes are in line with product and release plans.
Maintain issues tracker and Identity RCA for permanent closure of issues.
Lead a team of Developers / Senior Developers and guide them in various activities like System Improvements, Monitorings and Dashboards.
Implementation and Post Implementation support.
Processes
Maintenance and management of improvement capability and other applicable audit documents as per process.
Follow standard Change, Problem Management Process.
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
Retail Banking, T&I and Country Business
Our Ideal Candidate
Graduate qualifications
Desired
BE / ME or Any postgraduate degree with computer science background.
Technical and Functional and Domain expertise in Wholesale / Consumer Banking.
Experience in banking product development and processes would be required.
Exposure to data migration and databases would be preferred.
Technical Skills
Primary
JBOSS, Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Java, Spring
ITRS / APPDYNAMICS / CLOUD WATCH
Restful API and Kong Gateway and O-Auth
Maven / Jenkins / Sonarqube / Rundeck / Ansible / Groovy
AWS / AURORA
Secondary
Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes
Hazlecast, Kafka / Rabbit MQ
App Scan / Selenium / Cucumber / CA Lisa / Jmeter
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Development programming languages
Design
Operating systems
Unit Testing
Database
Infrastructure
Software Config Management
Development toolkits
Scripting (Shell, ANT, DB)
Support system interface
Process standards
Application knowledge
Systems documentation
Systems integration
Analytical and problem solving
Communication
Teamwork
Planning and Organisation
Judgement and decision making
Group policies and processes
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 www.sc.com/careers
Primary Location : Asia-India-Chennai
Schedule : Full-time
Employee Status : Permanent
Posting Date : 06/Jul/2026, 6:34:56 AM
Unposting Date : Ongoing
The Role Responsibilities
Job Role
Effectively manage multiple Stakeholder demands and expectations while maintaining quality and delivery of support operations.
Effectively lead team of SRE Engineers and transform traditional support operations to SRE Mindset.
Implement Automation and self-healing of applications.
Implement Client Centric Monitoring and Observability based on End user needs.
Provide quality of Service as per Service Level Objectives and effectively manage Operational Level Agreements with upstream / downstream systems.
Maintain Change Velocity vs Stability Balance with an effective Error Budget for application.
Implement Incident Management Practices with blameless Post mortems and driving repeated Incident Themes to closure. Regular review of Alerting, Incidents and reducing their end user business impacts.
Engage Scrum teams and communicate priorities of Post mortem actions and problem tickets to development / delivery team to prioritise and deliver.
Manage and maintain Cyber Risk, Resilience Risk, Stability Risks of application and drive towards low risk environment. Driving right Security patches implementations in non-prod and prod environments.
Engages with Dev Leads, Test Leads and architects to determine strategic direction in terms of application supportability.
Evaluates and implements new technologies personally, in line with bank strategy.
Documents and publishes standards and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
To manage and run a large scale site reliability initiatives for a particular business stream and executing sleuth of development and Improvement initiatives to support the business vertical's.
Identifies opportunity for optimization and implement.
Ensures the Cloud deployments and activities are automated.
Drive Change approval board for effective change reviews.
Identify and improve monitoring and observability.
Review Production changes for error free implementations.
Identify, plan and drive application optimisations and service Improvements to maintain system stability.
Strategy
To function as the domain expert in the core banking team and support the core banking products roll out from a functionality and capability perspective.
To function as the conduit between end users and the all internal CoreBanking teams in doing development for user requirements based on user stories.
To contribute to product management and release management of the core banking products.
Business
Participate fitment workshops, Understand product requirements from PO and Solution Architect and review the product requirements.
Preparation of Program Specifications for capabilities identified for optimisation based on analysis.
Management of changes to the core banking products to ensure that changes are in line with product and release plans.
Maintain issues tracker and Identity RCA for permanent closure of issues.
Lead a team of Developers / Senior Developers and guide them in various activities like System Improvements, Monitorings and Dashboards.
Implementation and Post Implementation support.
Processes
Maintenance and management of improvement capability and other applicable audit documents as per process.
Follow standard Change, Problem Management Process.
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
Retail Banking, T&I and Country Business
Our Ideal Candidate
Graduate qualifications
Desired
BE / ME or Any postgraduate degree with computer science background.
Technical and Functional and Domain expertise in Wholesale / Consumer Banking.
Experience in banking product development and processes would be required.
Exposure to data migration and databases would be preferred.
Technical Skills
Primary
JBOSS, Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Java, Spring
ITRS / APPDYNAMICS / CLOUD WATCH
Restful API and Kong Gateway and O-Auth
Maven / Jenkins / Sonarqube / Rundeck / Ansible / Groovy
AWS / AURORA
Secondary
Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes
Hazlecast, Kafka / Rabbit MQ
App Scan / Selenium / Cucumber / CA Lisa / Jmeter
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Development programming languages
Design
Operating systems
Unit Testing
Database
Infrastructure
Software Config Management
Development toolkits
Scripting (Shell, ANT, DB)
Support system interface
Process standards
Application knowledge
Systems documentation
Systems integration
Analytical and problem solving
Communication
Teamwork
Planning and Organisation
Judgement and decision making
Group policies and processes
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 www.sc.com/careers
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The SRE Lead 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.
