Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

• Technically deliver software projects through all stages of the life cycle, including responsibility towards understanding and capturing requirements, design, development and acceptance testing.
• Identifies potential areas of automation, applies proven mechanisms such as DevOps to conceptualize on those areas and come out with productive solutions.
• Undertake development tasks without supervision, including software designing, programming and testing within a Test-Driven Development process.
• Understand and apply a formal quality approach towards design, development and testing phases.
• Produce high quality technical documentation.
• Provide updates to the Project Manager.

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the Financial Markets environment in which the Group operates.

Processes

• Responsible for owning user stories and delivering on time.
• Responsible for driving through various development / testing phases and implement in production.

Regulatory and 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 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association

Our Ideal Candidate

• A team player; multi-culturally aware with proven success working with cross-functional project teams in global service delivery model.
• Software development lifecycle experience in a mature CI / CD environment is good.
• Working experience in banking industry and familiar with financial products is good.
• Good to know Frameworks (Spring, Spring boot, Camel, JMS, Solace, Kafka).
• A good understanding of SDLC / AGILE and business process improvement.
• Good to have Service or Microservice architecture (REST and SOAP)
• Good knowledge of Java development techniques and environments.
• Strong communication skills including English speaking and writing.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Must have strong sense of responsibility / ownership.
• Customer-focused approach and attention to details.
• Good to know UI (Ember, ReactJs, HTML5, CSS).
• Build automation tools (Ant, Maven, Gradle).
• Application server (Jboss, Tomcat).
• Basic knowledge of SQL is a must.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java / J2EE
• Oracle
• Hibernate
• Ember / React JS
• iReport
• Jboss
• Solace / Kafka

\xc2\xadAbout 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.

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