Senior Developer

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Job Summary

Strategy

• Strategize the Technology roadmap for CEE Hive delivery
• Foster engineering mindset among the people and develop talent within the team
• Provide Inputs / directions for strategic programs across Solutions, Design and Approach to implementation
• Adopt the banks cloud strategy and drive within your programs/projects
• Strategize on new areas like choice of design, databases, API strategies, Microservices led Architecture as part of Engineering stream
  
  

Business

Understand the bank priorities on the strategic initiatives and on the new programs planned further

Processes

• Adhere to Vx principles and guidelines on all Program delivery
• Compliance on ICS guidelines, Security and Data protection
• Compliant to SDF/TDA/RAT process and drive bank towards automating process areas removing redundancies.
  
  

Governance

Must be aware of the Groups regulatory framework and is expected to adhere based on the role.

Must understand the oversight and controls related to Business Unit, Job Function and deliver

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups 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 Banks Conduct Principles.
  
  

Key Stakeholders

CEE Hive ITO, CLDM Business, Vendors related to CLDM/CRA, Interfacing systems to CLDM/CRA (CCIB Business Unit).

Other Responsibilities

Manage and handle all CCIB CLDM Objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• 10 Years of experience in application development using Java , J2EE and Advance Technologies.
• Good understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles and coding standards.
• Good Experience in Oracle Policy Automation and Drools.
• Ability to build extensible and scalable solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good knowledge in DevOps, CI-CD.
• Very good presentation and documentation skills.
• Experience in presenting solutions to architecture forums and follow the principles and standards in implementation.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks.
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models.
• Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
• Recommend future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends, and regulatory requirements.
  
  

Qualifications

Technical Competence

• Good knowledge about Design Patterns and Principles, Microservices Architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience on CI-CD pattern with good knowledge on related tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, JIRA, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker and automation test tool like JMeter, SoapUI..
• Good knowledge in Enterprise Application Integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous).
• Good knowledge on API building (Web Service, SOAP/REST).
• Experience in building large scale applications using opensource and J2EE technologies.
• Good knowledge on multi-threading and multi-processing implementations.
• Good knowledge in dependency injections like Spring DI/Blueprints and JSON libraries like Jackson/GSON
• Good knowledge in Linux Operating System (Preferably RHEL).
• Good Hands on knowledge on containerized platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Expertise in RDBMS solutions (Oracle, PostgreSQL) & NoSQL offerings (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Strong programming and hands-on skills in Java.
• Strong experience in Business rule design and development (Oracle Policy Automation, Drools)
• Strong experience in open-source frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Transaction Management and Apache Libraries (Camel/ActiveMQ/Commons).
• Good Understanding code quality tools like SonarQube, AppScan, XRAY.
• Strong experience on Unit testing and code coverage using JUnit/Mockito.
• Experience in distributed technologies e.g. Kafka, Apache MQ, RabbitMQ etc. will be added advantage
• Knowledge in DSE DataStax or Neo4j will be an added advantage.
  
  

Good to Have

• Experience in application development for Client Due Diligence (CDD), CRA, On-boarding, FATCA & CRS
• Good knowledge on Cloud native application development, and knowledge of Cloud computing services.
• CDD process awareness including AML, KYC and Screening
• Enhance and improve CDD related processes.
  
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices
• Oracle Policy Automation, Drools
• OCP, Kubernetes
• PL/SQL Programming, RDBMS
• Kafka, JMS Messaging
• Devops Tools
• React JS
  
  

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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