Job Summary

We are inviting a passionate software developer to be part of an exciting journey within the Wealth banking space and one of the leading global banks.

You will be a back-end developer, working as an Individual Contributor (no people leadership responsibility), which means that you are an expert and hands-on back-end developer. You will be a member of a squad and will also work closely with the Product Owners and influence the direction and roadmap of the product you are working on.

Although you may have a preferred language and framework to work with, we love to keep an open mind. With Standard Chartered, you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques, programming languages and frameworks to get the job done.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy

Business

• 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

Processes

• Challenge the “as is” way of working across delivery, governance, operational model/structure
• Apply depth of analytical understanding of a variety of New Ways of Working such as problem solving, Extreme Programming, Behaviour Driven Development, DevOps,. 
• Understand what practice, tool or technique to apply given the environment and the situation is the challenge that you will need to demonstrate mastery in using a show/tell/do approach

People and Talent

• Lead by example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• As expert developer, you will coach other team members “on the job” and manage by influence, as you will not have any direct reports assigned to you.

Risk Management

• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent).

Key Stakeholders

• Product Owners, Chief Product Owners

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong proficiency in Java
• Senior individual contributor
• Solid understanding of database management systems, including both RDBMS and No-SQL databases
• Expertise in performance engineering of distributed systems.
• Expertise in test automation, preferably with experience in Test-Driven-Development
• Experience in identifying skill gaps and mitigate risks to deliverables.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• JAVA or Kotlin
• Spring Boot or any other equivalent back-end library
• Source Code Management
• RDBMS and No-SQL

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

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