Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Develop our technical strategy and architecture using modern distributed application software, tools and techniques.
• Design our technology applications holistically and continuously improve our technical efficiency and make changes as necessary.
• Communicate technology strategy, architecture, and regular status reporting.

Business

• Have a good understanding of financial market instruments.

Processes

• Align to Standard Chartered delivery processes of software delivery framework and keep high standard for change management practice.
• Create process to reduce product time-to-market by embracing automation in the delivery lifecycle.

People and Talent

• Provide technical guidance and direction, as well as hands-on resource management for all software development activities.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing our high performing engineers.
• Play a leading role in interviewing and supporting hiring new engineers.
• Leveraging the Engineering Career Path, develop members of the Liquidity Engineering team towards Distinguished Engineer and Enterprise Engineer status.

Risk Management

• Highlight emerging risks to planned delivery upfront to ensure sufficient measures can be taken.
• Inform all stakeholders appropriately only risk / issues / challenges.

Governance

• Establish good governance process in the team to ensure quality delivery.
• Ensure minimal release rollbacks, minimum post release production issues.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• 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].
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor\'s degree or above

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Database
• Microservices architecture
• Design rest API
• Bigdata - Hive, Hadoop, Solace, Kafka
• Unix scripting
• Core Java
• SQL

\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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