Job Summary

The successful candidate will play a key role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programs with the primary responsibilities around building components within the MRP platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out. The candidate will be a natural technology enthusiast with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical components, and will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.  

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop JAVA Services and REST APIs.
• Deliver quality implementations given budget, and time constraints.
• Take ownership and responsibilities of some core Java components.
• Propose proper design to improve the application performance as per SLA/OLA defined by business.
• Ensure good unit test code coverage and code quality as per the quality gate setup in SonarQube.
• Monitor and fix the issues found in security scans and ensure applications are compliant.
• Support all testing activities including SIT/UAT/PT/Regression/PenTest etc.
• Prepare for releases and standby to support the releases.
• Perform L3 support on rota and work with PSS to resolve PROD issues on time.
• Create and maintain good documentation for Dev Guide and User Guide.
• Conduct KT sessions within the team and help other team members whenever needed.
• Conduct online test, coding test and interviews for Java candidates.
• Mentor new Java developers and ensure they are up to speed.
• Support annual audit activities.
• Work with MR architect to discuss high-level and low-level designs.
• Explore other and new backend technologies and adopt in the team and the bank, create POCs and discuss in MR Architecture forum.

Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience in modern Java and Spring technology stack.
• Strong experience in REST API and Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and working in agile teams.
• Experience of working in multi-tier and hybrid architecture.
• Nice to have experience in software development using open source technologies.
• Experience in working with distributed systems is a plus.
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and working in agile teams.
• Experience of working in multi-tier and hybrid architecture.
• Non-Technical Skills
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Proven ability to work within a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
• Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to be organised and multi-tasked on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure.
• Excellent attention to details and time management.
• Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
• Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies.
• Good presentation skill.

Qualifications

Essential Technical Knowledge (Must Have)

• Solid knowledge and hands-on skills in Core Java, JDK 11/17, Collections, Threading, JDBC.
• Solid knowledge and hands-on skills in OO Programming, Design Principles, Design Patterns.
• Solid knowledge and hands-on skills in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Hibernate, Web Service, REST API, Microservices architecture.
• Solid skills in unit testing, integration testing, behavior testing, end to end testing with JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, etc.
• Solid skills in Java IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, VS Code.
• Solid skills in Java debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Solid skills in OLTP and OLAP systems (preferably PostgreSQL and Clickhouse).
• Good exposure to Java coding standard, clean code, code review.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design and Microservices Architecture.
• Knowledge of Shell scripting, and working in a UNIX/LINUX environment.
• Knowledge in Authentication and Authorisation frameworks and tools, e.g. AD/LDAP, OAuth2, SSO, Kerberos, JWT, Spring Security.
• Exposure to JIRA, Git / Bitbucket with a sound understanding of Gitflow branching strategy.
• Exposure to build tools and CI/CD pipelines e.g. Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory.

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.