Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Business

• Drive architectural thinking and engagement with agile squads and align architecture plans and solution design with business objectives
• Work extensively with agile pods to drive containerization, cloud and digitalisation strategies
• Develop and maintain solution architecture road maps for Product Enablement
• Articulate key elements of proposed solutions for the system including upstream/downstream and surrounding system impacts
• Present solution architecture and designs including its benefits and drawbacks to senior stakeholders
• Assess proposed solutions for appropriateness and adherence to architecture principles and roadmap
• Work with internal and external technology partners to assess scope of technology changes needed for new projects and devise solution architecture options
• Provide cost-effective solution options for business requirements in line with architecture principles
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and best practice for systems and interfaces
• Present solution designs to technology governance committees as part of the project approval process

Processes

• Follow the SDF process as per SCB standard

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 [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

• 9 plus years of experience in developing world class products/applications.
• Bachelors in engineering or equivalent

Role Specific Competencies

Strongly Desired competencies

We are looking for Language agnostic people, however, below is the end-to-end tech stack.
we intend to use for developing our Credit Origination platforms.

• Java/ J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate
• Reporting tools \xe2\x80\x93 MicroStrategy
• Hands-on skills in J2EE specifications like JAX-RS, JAX-WS
• Cloud Solutions \xe2\x80\x93 OpenShift or Azure
• Container Management \xe2\x80\x93using tools like Docker, Rocket and Drawbridge
• Elastic Scaling \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Nginx, HAProxy or PAAS like OpenShift
• Dynamic Discover \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Zookeeper or Etcd
• Configuration Management \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Zookeeper, Etcd, Spring, Puppet/Chef, Ansible
• Continuous Integration \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Maven and Jenkins
• Continuous Deployment \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Jenkins, Nolio or Go
• Assembly Development \xe2\x80\x93 using frameworks like Apache Camel or Node.js
• UI Development \xe2\x80\x93 using frameworks like Node.js, REACT, AngularJS or Backbone
• IDL Definition \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like RAML or Swagger
• Code Development \xe2\x80\x93 using IDE\xe2\x80\x99s like Eclipse or IntelliJ
• Web API\xe2\x80\x99s \xe2\x80\x93 for Information Exchange
• Collaboration \xe2\x80\x93 using tools like Git-Hub and JIRA
• Hands experience and Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Strong in Oracle or SQL Server PL/SQL development and designing data model.
• Understanding of continuous build concept and usage with maven, SonarQube or other related tools
• Web services, API design, Defining Specification using swagger/RAML.
• Experience with automated test configuration.
• Good to have experience in containerization technologies - Kubernetes

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 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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