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Spl'st, Development
Standard Chartered
placeChennai, IN
Posted on Standard Chartered website on 28 Mar 2025 (23 days ago)
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Job Summary

Front End Development:

  • Design and develop user interfaces for web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks/libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
  • Implement responsive and visually appealing designs that enhance user experience across different devices and screen sizes.
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate design mockups and wireframes into functional front end components.

Back End Development:

  • Architect, develop, and maintain server-side logic and database systems using programming languages such as Node.js, Python, or Java.
  • Design and implement RESTful APIs and web services to facilitate communication between the front end and back end layers of the application.
  • Implement data models, business logic, and authentication/authorization mechanisms to ensure security and integrity of the application.

Database Management:

  • Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and indexes to support efficient data storage and retrieval.
  • Work with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) depending on project requirements.
  • Implement data migration, backup, and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
  • Integrate front end and back end components to create seamless end-to-end functionality for web applications.
  • Write unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the software solution.
  • Conduct code reviews and collaborate with QA engineers to identify and address defects and bugs in a timely manner.

Deployment and DevOps:

  • Deploy web applications to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) using containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
  • Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate software build, testing, and deployment processes.
  • Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues in production environments to ensure high availability and reliability.  

Key Responsibilities

Strategy •    Own and define the product technology roadmap - Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and stakeholders to define the technical roadmap for software development projects. •    Scalability and Performance Planning - Anticipate future scalability and performance challenges and develop strategies to address them proactively. •    Develop strategies for technical debt management & develop strategies for prioritizing and addressing this over time. •    Build and foster an engineering excellence culture through leadership and direction.  •    Build an engineering and system thinking mindset with values such as fast feedback, repeatability, simplicity, and clean code.  •    Drive a modern approach to engineering excellence, ensuring fast, frequent, and high-quality value delivery.  •    Thought Leadership, evangelism, and upskilling the workforce on cloud, architecture, engineering and open banking and API. •    Empower the engineers within the subdomain with the right tools and practice to improve SDLC process efficiency - with focus on quality assurance, developer experiences, automation, and performance engineering, with speed, scalability, and stability in mind.  •    Enforce and streamline sound development practices.  •    Establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice, and support, to assure the classic pay product is developed, implemented, and maintained aligning with the Group’s standards

Business  •    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 •    Define standards to ensure that applications are designed with scale, resilience and performance in mind •    Enforce and streamline sound development practices and establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice and support, to assure the platforms are developed, implemented and maintained aligning with the Group’s standards •    Responsible for overall governance of the subdomain that includes financial management, risk management, representation in steering committee reviews and engagement with business for strategy, change management and timely course correction as required •    Ensure compliance to the highest standards of business conduct, regulatory requirements and practices defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering stipulations  

Skills and Experience

People & Talent*Click here to enter text.  •    Ensure that the organisation works in a proactive way to upgrade capacity well in advance and predict future capacity needs •    Responsible for building an engineering culture where application and infrastructure scalability is paramount for on-going capacity management with an aim to reduce the need for capacity reviews using monitoring and auto-scale properties •    Empower the engineers so that they can provide economy of scale focused on delivering value, speed to market, availability, monitoring & system management •    Foster a culture of innovation, transparency, and accountability end to end in the subdomain while promoting a “business-first” mentality at all levels •    Develop and maintain a plan that provides for succession and continuity in the most critical delivery and management position  

Risk Management •    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. •    Ensure that the organisation works in a proactive way to upgrade capacity well in advance and predict future capacity needs •    Responsible for building an engineering culture where application and infrastructure scalability is paramount for on-going capacity management with an aim to reduce the need for capacity reviews using monitoring and auto-scale properties •    Empower the engineers so that they can provide economy of scale focused on delivering value, speed to market, availability, monitoring & system management •    Foster a culture of innovation, transparency, and accountability end to end in the subdomain while promoting a “business-first” mentality at all levels •    Develop and maintain a plan that provides for succession and continuity in the most critical delivery and management position

Regulatory & Governance •    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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.

Regulatory & Business Conduct •    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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. •    Lead the Digital Experience team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles  •    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities •    Embed Here for Good and Group’s brand and values in the digital sales/commerce team •    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures 

Qualifications

Requirements & Skills

•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). •    3+ years of experience in iOS development, with a strong portfolio of iOS applications. •    Proficiency in Swift and/or Objective-C programming languages, with a deep understanding of iOS SDK, APIs, and frameworks. •    Experience with Xcode, Git, and other development tools. •    Strong understanding of iOS app architecture, design patterns (e.g., MVC, MVVM), and best practices. •    Knowledge of UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and intuitive interfaces. •    Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and other web technologies for data exchange. •    Understanding of mobile app performance optimization techniques and tools. •    Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently or in a team environment. •    Experience with cross-platform development frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter) is a plus. •    Contributions to open-source projects or participation in developer communities is a plus.  

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.
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