Specialist Development

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Understanding to programming frameworks. Understanding of Groups technology standards.
  
  

Business

• Understanding business requirements from PO.
  
  

Processes

• eSDLC Process, Scrum/Agile
  
  

People & Talent

• Support in providing capacity forecast for self, for initiatives.
  
  

Risk Management

• Ability to quickly analyze / debug any problem statements and provide root cause, within the scope of the project.
  
  

Key stakeholders

• Delivery Lead, Scrum Lead, Scrum Team, Product Owner, Production Engineering Team
  
  

Other Responsibilities

Standard Job Requirements

• Preferably 7+ Years of experience in Application Development using Java and Advance Technologies tool
• Strong understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards
• Experience in building extensible and scalable solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Good knowledge in DevOps, CI-CD
• Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models
• Strong experience in Application Delivery, that also includes Production Support
• Very Good presentation and documentation skills
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks
• Awareness about Release Management
• Strong team player who can collaborate effectively with relevant stakeholders
• Technical Competence
  
  

Must Have

• Strong programming and hands-on skills in Java 8 or above
• Good hands-on Java Collections and Streams
• Good experience in developing Spring Framework applications
• Good knowledge on Spring DI/Blueprints, Spring Boot, etc.
• Good knowledge about Design Patterns and Principles
• Good knowledge on OR frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Good knowledge on API building (REST)
• Good knowledge on Unit testing and code coverage using JUnit/Mockito
• Good knowledge on code quality tools like SonarQube etc.
• Good knowledge on containerized platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Good knowledge in Enterprise Application Integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous)
• Good knowledge on multi-threading and multi-processing implementations
• Knowledge on SQL queries (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Ability to work in quick paced, dynamic environment adapting agile methodologies
• Ability to work with minimal guidance and/or high-level design input
• Knowledge on Microservices based development and implementation
• Knowledge on JSON libraries like Jackson/GSON
• Knowledge on basic Unix Commands
• Possess good documentation and presentation skills
  
  

Good to Have

• Hands-on skills in J2EE specifications like JAX-RS, JAX-WS
• Experience in working and supporting OLTP
• Good Knowledge on other Spring framework and utils like batch, data, cloud etc.
• Basic knowledge in Linux Operating System commands (Preferably RHEL)
• Knowledge on testing methodologies like performance testing, smoke testing, stress testing, endurance testing, etc.
• Cloud environments knowledge (AWS / Azure etc.)
• Knowledge on IMDG (Hazelcast, Ignite)
• Knowledge on Rule Engines like Drools, OpenL Tablets, Easy Rules etc.
• Experience in presenting solutions to architecture forums and follow the principles and standards in implementation
  
  

Qualifications

• Education-Any degree
• Training-Any relevant training based on the skill requirements above
• Certifications-Any relevant certifications based on the skill requirements above
• Languages-Java, SQL
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Spring Framework
• SQL
• Microservices
• Containerization / Kubernetes / Docker (OCP/SKE)
• UNIX/LINUX commands
• Other related java frameworks/libraries
  
  

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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