Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Drive architectural thinking and engagement with agile squads and align architecture plans and solution design with business objectives
• Work extensively with agile pods to drive containerization, cloud and digitalisation strategies
• Develop and maintain solution architecture road maps for credit origination
• Articulate key elements of proposed solutions for the system including upstream/downstream and surrounding system impacts
• Present solution architecture and designs including its benefits and drawbacks to senior stakeholders
• Assess proposed solutions for appropriateness and adherence to architecture principles and roadmap
• Work with internal and external technology partners to assess scope of technology changes needed for new projects and devise solution architecture options
• Provide cost-effective solution options for business requirements in line with architecture principles
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and best practice for systems and interfaces
• Present solution designs to technology governance committees as part of the project approval process

Strategy

• Drive architectural thinking and engagement with agile squads and align architecture plans and solution design with business objectives

Processes

• Present solution designs to technology governance committees as part of the project approval process

Risk Management

• Provide cost-effective solution options for business requirements in line with architecture principles

Governance

• Assess proposed solutions for appropriateness and adherence to architecture principles and roadmap

Key stakeholders

• Product Owners
• Domain Architect

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10 years experience in data architecture
• Education: Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s in engineering or equivalent
• Java/ J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java/ J2EE, Spring
• Cloud Solutions \xe2\x80\x93 OpenShift or Azure
• Web services, API design

About Standard CharteredWe\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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