Blade Engineering Manager VP

Job Summary

About Standard Chartered 

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, here for good.

About The Team

FM Digital Channels is a global team driven to provide world class technology in support of the bank’s Financial Markets business. Blade is the bank’s strategic, in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join international team of smart technologists serving global business in the financial market’s domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.

The Key Responsibilities

As an engineering manager, you’ll be leading a local team technically and organisationally, driving our platform forwards and delivering quality solutions to business-critical customer requirements. Based in Bangalore, your team collaborates in a dynamic global organisation, with fellow engineers, business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders across multiple locations.

• Serves as people leader for the direct reports,
• Unblocks progress and solves problems at the level of the organisation,
• Owns the technical aspect of the assigned teams’ delivery,
• Owns the effectiveness of the teams’ development processes,
• Drives the technical roadmap for the platform,
• Oversees and approves the designs done by lead developers and ensures they are aligned with the roadmaps,
• Oversees the velocity and quality of the code produced by the developers in the assigned teams.
  
  

The Key Requirements

Technical skills:

• Lead JavaScript (TypeScript) developer with good software design principles and the ability to write robust code and accompanying test suites,
• With 10+ years of relevant experience,
• Expert in React, Redux, RX JS, NPM/Yarn, webpack, CSS, HTML and the rest of web stack,
• Writes efficient, clear and well tested code, and able to articulate what was built and why,
• Built complex, real-time (event-driven) multi-modular single page applications,
• Optimized performance of latency sensitive systems,
• Delivered features across full stack,
• Preferably with Java as backend technology stack.
  
  

Functional Skills

• Financial Market domain knowledge, preferably investment banking,
• Derivatives product knowledge,
• e-trading technology experience.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Proven technical leadership experience,
• Experience leading teams in an agile product development environment,
• Effective communicator, fluent in English (speaking and writing),
• Experienced in driving requirements and development efforts,
• Proactive and autonomous self-starter,
• Experienced in the end-to-end design, development and support complex systems,
• Keen problem solver, with strong sense of ownership and ability to deal with ambiguity.
  
  

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Definition of the teams’ org design and technical roadmaps, contribution to the platform roadmap.
  
  

Business

• Take ownership of the delivery of assigned teams. Take ownership for and drive the delivery of org-wide and platform-wide initiatives and issue remediations.
  
  

Processes

• Own assigned processes at the level of the organisation. Design and own regional organisational processes, e.g. hiring, talent development, production support, etc.
  
  

People & Talent

• Drive hiring and retention in the region. People leadership, coaching and mentorship to own team and wider organisation.
  
  

Risk Management

• According to Global and FM Technology risk management frameworks
  
  

Governance

• According to Global and FM Technology governance frameworks
  
  

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 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.
  
  

Key Stakeholders

• Head of Development, Head of Programme Delivery, Squad Technical Leads, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, QA Leads, Business Product Owners, other Engineering Managers, Platform Architect.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent (STEM is a preference).
  
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• SDLC incl. Agile & Waterfall
• People Management
• Software Development
• Financial markets domain knowledge
• Architecture and System Design
  
  

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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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