AVP, Full Stack Engineer

Job Summary

Lead the design, development and delivery of secure, scalable and resilient enterprise applications across front-end, back-end, API and data layers. The role combines hands-on full stack engineering with technical leadership and stakeholder management, translating business priorities into well-governed technology solutions and driving delivery across product, architecture, security, operations and engineering teams

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an individual contributor with technical leadership accountability for end-to-end full stack solution delivery.
• Design, build and maintain responsive web applications using modern front-end frameworks and reusable component patterns.
• Develop secure back-end services, REST APIs, microservices and event-driven integrations.
• Create high-level and low-level designs covering application, integration, data, security, resilience and deployment considerations.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability and performance optimisation.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners and analysts to clarify requirements, priorities, outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Influence architecture, security, risk and operations stakeholders by clearly communicating options, trade-offs, dependencies and recommendations.
• Manage technical risks, delivery dependencies, production issues and operational readiness while ensuring compliance with organisational standards and controls.

Skills and Experience

15+ years of software engineering experience, including enterprise-scale full stack delivery; strong hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework and Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Python or Node.js back-end services; experience with APIs, microservices, SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD and production support; proven stakeholder management across business, product, architecture, security, risk and operations.

Motivations

•    Solving complex enterprise architecture and data-engineering challenges.
•    Building scalable, observable and secure platforms that improve production stability.
•    Influencing cross-functional stakeholders and converting business needs into approved solution designs. 

Qualifications

Key Experiences    
•    Enterprise application architecture; Hadoop/HaaS and midrange systems; data engineering and modelling; SAP and big-data integration; APIs and microservices; cloud adoption; solution governance; hands-on design, coding, automation and troubleshooting. 

Certifications / Qualifications    
•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field

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.