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Director, Engineering Lead, WRB Tech - STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

STANDARD CHARTERED BANKIslandwide, SG

10 days ago

Job description

Roles & Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

An experienced skilled technology expert who manages the technical delivery, works with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics and releases.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Develop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Domain Tech Lead.

Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.

Execute the Hive’s product vision with the Hive Leads.

Collaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.

Communicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.

Business

Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.

Perform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications.

Deliver solution intent (SI) and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.

Collaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.

Proactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.

Develop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.

Technical Leadership

Influence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.

Incorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.

Align detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture and product / platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards.

Support the squad in clearly slice the back log into independently shippable experience for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.

Identify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.

Accountable to work with technical counterparts to mitigate technical debt and balance risk, and regulatory items with new features, functionality, or changes to keep the cost of change low.

Responsible to work in partnership with technology to ensure a balance of functional and non-functional requirements are represented in the backlog and that there is an approach to mitigate or avoid technical debt.

Lead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.

Act as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.

Drive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments.

Processes

Regularly reviews squad metrics in regard to Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.

Work with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.

People & Talent

Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.

Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives.

Vendor Management

Collaborate with vendors to integrate vendor deliverables with internal systems and resolve any issues impacting delivery.

Drive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.

Governance

Oversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable.

Design APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards.

Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.

Present Solutions to the architecture review forum.

Align with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.

Align technical solutions and the applications with established security control requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to avoid potential penalties.

Collaborate with Security Champions to identify and implement the necessary security controls tailored to the specific delivery or process.

Identify Applicable Security controls by engaging with Security Champs

Review and approve the chapter 1, 2 & 3 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.

Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production.

Complete comprehensive security impact assessments to ensure compliance with governance requirements and mitigate potential risks.

Ensure compliance with bank compliance guidelines & standards (e.g., data protection), address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.

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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principle

Our Ideal Candidate

10+ years’ experience in software development domain

Experience in the software development using Agile methodologies

Knowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework

Knowledge & Experience in the API & Microservices

Knowledge & Experience in J2EE and good understanding of OOA and OOP

Knowledge & Experience in Integration technologies – MQ, Kafka, Solace

Knowledge / Experience in Container platform and Cloud technologies

Knowledge / Experience in DevOps & SRE

Experiences with relational databases and NOSQL databases

Graduation or Post-Graduation in Computer Science Engineering

Proven experience in solution management, business development, or a related field

Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and experience with agile methodologies

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and partners

Strong project management skills and experience leading cross-functional teams

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Strong understanding of technology and the ability to learn new technologies quickly

Role Specific Technical Competencies

API & Microservices

Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)

Database Technologies (SQL, NoSQL)

Integration Technologies

Agile Methodologies, Lean Framework

DevOps Engineering

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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Visit our careers website www.sc.com / careers

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