Sr. Assoc, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Cultivate an engineering culture that values excellence, feedback, and clean code, driving the chapter towards innovative and efficient practices.
•    Develop a strategic approach that enhances SDLC process efficiency, delivering high-quality and scalable solutions.
•    Integrate Thought Leadership to upskill the team in areas like quality assurance, enhancing user experience, and effective use of automation and APIs.
Business 
•    Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).
•    Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.
•    Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
•    Trusted advisor to the business. Work hand in hand with the Business, taking product programs from investment decisions, into design, specification, and solution phases, all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams.
•    Provide leadership and technical expertise for the subdomain to achieve goals and outcomes
•    Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities, bid teams, monitoring of usage, improving client experience, and collecting defects for future improvements.
•    Manage business partner expectations. Ensure delivery to business meeting time, cost and with high quality
Processes
•    Implement and uphold clear job descriptions and performance metrics in line with the group's standards to ensure accountability and excellence.
•    Manage the lifecycle of products or services, ensuring governance is maintained and aligned with the group's framework.
•    Champion the adoption of Change Delivery Standards to refine project management and lifecycle processes.
•    Promote a feedback-rich environment, utilizing internal and external insights to continuously improve chapter operations.

People & Talent

•    Drive the development of a dynamic engineering culture, advocating agile and lean practices for sustained growth and improvement.
•    Promote a proactive learning environment and operational excellence within the chapter.
•    Instil a 'business-first' mindset across the team, aligning engineering practices with strategic business objectives.
•    Align team development with the chapter’s objectives, ensuring a focus on strategic skill advancement and personal growth.
•    Attract and retain top engineering talent to build a highly skilled and innovative team advancing the Chapter and Hive goals. 
Risk Management

•    Design and uphold a robust risk management plan, with contingencies for succession and role continuity, especially in critical positions.
•    Encourage proactive risk identification and management, establishing a vigilant culture that anticipates and addresses issues swiftly.
•    Coordinate risk escalation and participate in resolution processes, ensuring timely understanding the root cause.
Governance
•    Exemplify and promote adherence to the group's values and code of conduct, ensuring all activities comply with regulatory and ethical standards.
•    Take on accountability for the governance of processes and practices, ensuring they meet both internal and external regulatory requirements.
•    Represent the chapter in relevant forums, advocating for the chapter's needs and ensuring alignment with organisational directives.
Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Ensure a comprehensive understanding of and adherence to local banking laws, anti-money laundering regulations, and other compliance mandates.
•    Conduct business activities with a commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, fostering an environment of trust and respect

Other Responsibilities
•    Champion the company's broader mission and values, integrating them into daily operations and team ethos.
•    Undertake additional responsibilities as necessary, ensuring they contribute to the organisation's strategic aims and adhere to Group and other Relevant policies.

Skills and Experience

•    10 to 12 years of IT experience in Application development.
•    Knowledge of Dart, Java, Kotlin, SQLite, Webpack, HTML, JavaScript, CSS3
•    Designing reusable code and modules
•    Third-party libraries and RESTful APIs
•    Code versioning tools like Git, Jenkins, etc.
•    Prior knowledge of native programming languages
•    Android and iOS development
•    State management and app architecture
•    Experience in Firebase, PWA, Azure DevOps
•    Familiarity with Material Design guidelines
•    Networking and handling push notifications
•    Microservices architecture and containers
•    Offline storage, performance tuning, and threading
•    Knowledge in Linux administration, OpenShift, Kubernetes
•    Experience in Azure DevOps and OpenShift container platform.
•    Drive and report achievements through key performance indicators and success stories
•    Responsible for creating a framework for periodic reporting and identification for areas of improvement in operational performance parameters
•    Define and help to develop interactive dashboards / analytical reports
•    Support department head on general and team administrative, strategy execution, transformation, stakeholders and vendor management
Technical Responsibilities
•    Have technical knowledge and hands on experience on Java architecture/framework such as Struts, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Tomcat 8, Apache http and UI/UX design.
•    Knowledge of Dart, Java, Kotlin, SQLite, Webpack, HTML, JavaScript, CSS3
•    Designing reusable code and modules
•    Third-party libraries and RESTful APIs
•    Microservices management tools such as Kong, Api Gateway.
•    In-memory/Distributed databases like Postgres
•    DevOps tool stack such as ADO, Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, Maven, Docker, Rundeck.
•    Experience in Firebase, PWA, Azure DevOps
•    Programming/Scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Power shell, Bash, Java / J2EE, Angular JS, Spring & Microservices

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Java Spring: Proficient in full-stack development using Java and Spring, with a focus on crafting high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software.
•    Technical Leadership:    Demonstrated ability in leading full-stack projects, from conception to deployment, with an emphasis on modern JavaScript frameworks.
•    Database Management: Strong knowledge of database management and data integration techniques for developing complex full-stack applications.
•    Cloud based Environments: Experienced in deploying full-stack applications to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) with a solid grasp of containerization and orchestration tools. 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with a comprehensive background in full-stack development.
•    8+ years of experience in software development with at least 5 years focused on Backend based projects involving Java and Spring frameworks.
•    Demonstrable experience with RESTful API development, including proficiency with OAuth2, JWT, and Security aspects.
•    Strong understanding of RESTful API development and experience with both SQL (like MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (like MongoDB).
•    Strong version control skills using tools like Git, with a commitment to maintaining high standards of code quality through reviews and automated tests.
•    Exceptional communication and team-building skills, with the capacity to mentor developers, facilitate technical skill growth, and align team efforts with strategic objectives.
•    Ability to lead in dynamic, iterative development environments.

Other tools and tool kit options 
•    Proficiency in Java: Strong command over Java programming language & core Java Concepts such as object-oriented programming (OOP), data structures, and algorithms.
•    Expertise with Java Frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Apache Struts.
•    Understanding of Web Technologies like HTTP, RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and WebSocket for real-time web applications.
•    Experience with both Relational and NoSQL databases and the ability to integrate them effectively within full-stack solutions.

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.