Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Candidate should be able to think in alignment with general technological strategy of the business function.

Business

• Candidate should be able to work with business teams to understand requirements along with other team members

Processes

• In addition to technical expertise, candidate should adhere to Bank processes prior to delivery.

People and Talent

• Candidate should be able to work in an agile workspace and be a team player

Governance

• Candidate should own any governance linked to the deliverables owned by them.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

Role Responsibilities

• As a Lead developer, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be responsible providing technical leadership to a team of developers as well as hands on development to deliver quality software to tight timelines. Working in a dynamic global team with other technologists, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

Key Attributes:

• An excellent developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites
• Ability to design and build smart, scalable solutions.
• Ability to write efficient, clear code and be able to articulate what has been implemented and why
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development
• Familiarity or experience in micro-services and container technologies (OpenShift or Docker)
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps

Our Ideal Candidate

• Core Java essential), Spring Boot, Openshift
• Microservices, containers and cloud experience are highly desirable
• Forgerock experience is an advantage
• Ability to develop latency sensitive systems
• Agile development
• Experience with git and Atlassian toolset

Soft skills:

• Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous
• Good team spirit

Diversity & Inclusion

• Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Microservices and API development (Java ) Advanced
• Database familiarity (PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server) Core

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.

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