VP, Engineering Lead

Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Engage with cross bank DevOps and Agile and other SMEs leveraging on Bank approved best practices to uplift the GB platforms strategically in a sustainable approach while continue to meet business needs
• Engage with Business to understand user journeys prioritised for development.
• Support agile teams in coming up with innovate solution design no matter how large or small the problem
• Contribute to and Ensure adherence to overall platform architecture and direction
• Support the agile teams in developing user stories in a form that can support easy reusable code, automated testing, and platform as code.
• Participate where required in Agile ceremonies for product development.
• Ensure teams follow and contribute to the development of robust DevOps practices like continuous integration, code scanning, automated testing, configuration management, release management, blue-green deployment, online collaboration, cloud hosting, and system monitoring.
• Responsible for implementing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines by working with SCB Enterprise DevOps team.
• Support the reporting on code metrics (i.e. code quality, code coverage, security scanning etc) are in place

Software Engineering & Architecture

• Strong experience in agile methodologies and test-driven development.
• Lead and manage the cloud adaption in accordance with Cloud Service models of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Knowledge of Cloud services delivery strategies and strong experience with implementations of all types of Cloud Deployment models Public, Private and Hybrid
• Experience in automated software testing.
• Experience in building out and delivering software based on Microservices architecture
• Strong knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.
• Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Software Development

• Must be able to code in Java (Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Services)
• Experience in some of the technologies below:
• Language: Scala, SQL, JavaScript, Groovy, Python
• PaaS: Openshift, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• Data: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Spark, HIVE, Tableau
• Cache: Redis, Memcached
• Middleware: Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebsphereMQ, REST API
• UI: HTML5, Angular 4, ReactJS, Bootstrap, CSS, RxJS
• Logging & Monitoring: ELK, Zipkin, AppDynamics, New Relic
• Frameworks: Microservices

DevOps

• Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Fortify, Flyway, Jira and Confluence.
• Strong knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, cucumber, Selenium etc.
• Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Groovy and Linux shell.
• Knowledge in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse and IntelliJ

Experience

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Must be hands-on software design & development and DevOps.
• Strong experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and test-driven development.
• Experience with enterprise scale systems.

Non-technical Skills

• Proven ability to work within a team environment.
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
• Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and time management.
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles and methodologies
• Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
• Experience in promoting DevOps culture among developers and testers.
• Good presentation skills.

Our Ideal Candidate Qualifications

• AWS associate certification

Role Specific Competencies

• AWS Architecture
• DevOps
• Software development
• Software engineering
• Application Architecture
• Enterprise 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve 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.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

Keyskills :
KafkaTableauArtifactoryMicroservicesHiveRest ApiJavascriptConfluenceElasticsearchBootstrapOracleAngular 4AWSJavaWebspheremqCSSScalaOpenshiftFortifyJiraRedisMemcachedRabbitmqHtml5ReactjsSparkKubernetesElkSpring BootEclipseGroo