Job Description

Job Summary
15+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and project management, predominantly in the banking and financial services industry. Adept in leading enterprise-scale software development, data quality frameworks, payment systems, and production support operations. Expertise in Oracle, Kafka, and modern DevOps tools. Skilled in stakeholder communication, cross-functional leadership, and Agile/SDLC delivery models.
Key Responsibilities

• Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.
• Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.
• Responsible for managing the design & development for small to medium projects/ contributing to large complex projects.
• Expected to continue to build upon domain knowledge and technical/ proprietary skills to reach levels of industry acknowledgement.
• Works as a guide and independently sets directions for medium sized projects of high complexity.
• Requires sound technical knowledge combined with reasonable understanding of business issues. Has the ability to correlate technical issues with business environment.
• Advanced project and people management skills are required.
• Driving quality initiatives like introduction of automated tools for improving productivity, reducing human errors, etc
• Contributing towards product evolvement and knowledge management
• Contributing to process improvement and ensure process compliance
• Track and monitor work so as to ensure delivery of team output in line with schedule and quality norms
• Ensuring proper resource management such as recruitment, adequate training, career moulding

Skills and Experience
Strong communicator with a proven ability to engage stakeholders across technical and business teams.
- Demonstrated leadership, people management, and mentoring capabilities.
- Proficient in source code maintenance, QA, change management, and audit readiness.
- Skilled in Agile/SDLC, reporting tools, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Deep domain knowledge in banking systems, compliance, and digital transformation.
- Developed project budgets, KPIs, and dashboards to monitor performance and demand metric

• Knowledge in Integration technologies - MQ, Kafka, Solace
• Knowledge / Experience in Container platform and Cloud technologies
• Knowledge in DevOps & SRE
• Experiences with relational databases and NOSQL databases
• Knowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework
• Knowledge & Experience in the API & Microservices

Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along 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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