Development Lead

Job Description

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
• Drive the Container adoption strategy for Intra Day Liquidity Technology

Business

• Have a good understanding of Intraday Liquidity management and its importance for Financial institutions.
• Knowledge of bank statements, swift MT messages, Real time payments, XML messaging formats is a definite advantage.
• Knowledge of reconciliations between ledgers and bank statements, real time reporting requirements.
• Any knowledge on SAP products and particularly SAP-LMS (Liquidity Management Solution) would be a definite advantage.

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
• Responsible for the overall system development life cycle, and the delivery of high-quality software, using appropriate techniques such as TDD and/or DDD to deliver maintainable code which is fully integrated into a Continuous Integration & Delivery cycle

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 & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups 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.

Key Stakeholders

• Treasury Services, Treasury markets, GCFO, ITO - PSS

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years development experience using Java, spring and hibernate
• Experience in people management, leading a team remotely, managing the annual performance appraisals for the team.
• Flexibility to deliver in both Agile & Waterfall methodology
• Experience working in a banking I.T. team preferred
• Knowledge of Intra Day Liquidity, and Balance Sheet Management would be a definite advantage
• Knowledge of bank statements, swift MT messages, Real time payments, XML messaging formats is a definite advantage.
• Knowledge of reconciliations between ledgers and bank statements, real time reporting requirements
• Experience in delivering successful modern distributed applications
• Deep knowledge of current technological trends, frontend, backend, data, cloud native applications
• Hands-on development experience in all our technology choices
• Knowledge of system design and development of web, backend, database, integration, machine learning, cloud, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in delivering successful agile projects
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research, code-reviews, guidance
• Ability to communicate with all teams on technology
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills
• Java Development: Core Java, Multithreading, Collections, JMS, Hibernate & Spring, Apache Camel, Java Web Technologies: JSP, JSON/XML (XSLT, XSD, XQuery)
• Front end Development: React.js, Webpack, Redux, and Flux
• Application Server: JBOSS server, Tomcat
• Database: Oracle architecture, SQL, SAP HANA.
• Middleware: IBM MQ, AMQP, Topic, Solace, ActiveMQ
• IDE: Eclipse
• Operating System: Linux with shell scripting, Windows
• Repository: GIT & SVN
• Build tool: Maven
• Deployment: Jenkins & Docker

QUALIFICATIONS

• Java related certificate

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Application Design, Architecture

About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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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Keyskills :
MavenEclipseWindowsHibernateSvnAmqpSpringcloudsap productsTddWebDatabaseSap HanaDockerOracle Architecturereact.jsJavaMachine LearningIbm MqReduxFluxActivemqSqlJenkinsGitLinuxIntegrationContainersWebpackFrontendTopicDdddata