Job Summary

We are looking for highly talented and ambitious individuals to join us as we embark on this journey of innovation, collaboration and co-creation. We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base. 

About our Architecture, Technology Solutions App Development Team

Want to be part of a team that focuses on what we can do instead of what’s already been done? This is your opportunity.  From BlockChain to AWS, deep learning and AI, you’ll work with the tools and platforms that you need to be successful. You’ll have the freedom to decide the different ways you want to grow – whether that’s by gaining diverse skills on a new project or deepening your expertise on innovative tech. Join us and you’ll find diverse paths, projects and people that inspire you to think outside-the-box and change the way people everywhere experience our products and services.

About our Technology Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.     When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.     

Key Responsibilities

As part of the Technology team, you will be a •    Techno banker involved in creating and designing cutting edge tools and applications that will redefine the future of banking •    Work in a truly Agile environment, as part of scrum teams that are striving to solve customer challenges •    Play a critical role in client journeys that help us make faster decisions to enhance the end-to-end client experience and achieve outcomes that are most valuable to our clients •    Expertise in handling Large and Critical Deliverables lead by example as individual and as a Team. •    A skilled Backend developer/Engineer responsible for building applications, containers, APIs and microservices.  The role will require to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential •    Design, develop, and maintain code that meets requirements, is high quality, efficient, reusable and performs efficiently and effectively to provide a great customer experience •    Incorporate standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, testability and maintainability •    Will be responsible for automating parts of the development process in a way that tightens the development feedback loop. They should also be able to identify opportunities for automation during the development process. •    Participate in code reviews to spot issues around architecture, performance, security, and more •    Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications •    Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization •    Contribute to design patterns and coding standards while being mentored •    Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes. •    Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts. •    Documenting application changes and developing updates. •    Use continuous delivery to ship incremental improvements many times per week  

Skills and Experience

•    Analyse business problems and help to arrive at technically advanced solutions •    Proven ability to think out-of-the-box, fostering innovation and automation    •    Proven ability that establish a strong team-player approach to problem solving •    Strong foundational knowledge of Algorithms, Data Structures, OOPs concepts and frameworks •    Curious learner, willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks •    Empowered mindset with ability to ask questions and seek clarifications •    Excellent communication skills that enable seamless interactions with colleagues globally •    Strong technical skills, with exposure to coding in any next-gen tech  •    Awareness of Agile methodologies •    Good technical skills, with exposure to  o    An object-oriented programming, preferably Java,  o    10+ years of Experience with Frameworks / Technologies Springboot, MicroServices and Database side hands on experience to optimize from DB point of view as well. o    Preferrable with Certifications Java 8+ versions and understanding core concepts  o    Modern technologies like UI frameworks –Angular, React will be added advantage o    Hands on Experience Cloud Technologies like AWS .

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.

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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