Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Key responsibility is to play Senior Solution Architect role to support Data, Analytics and enterprise applications.
• Work with Product Owner(s) and Senior Team members in Singapore to translate business requirements to technical solutions, including establish delivery timelines and deliverables.
• Managing day-to-day activities of the tech team/squad, including creating, problem solving, handling technical challenge and proving proper guidance and support to the technical team.
• End to end project technical road map, technical gaps and solutions.
• Manage & coach a team of tech developers.
• Architect and develop new technical solutions from POC to Production.
• Be comfortable with the latest technologies adoption.
• Be comfortable delivering cloud solutions with a micro services architecture.
• Be able to deliver integration with internal and external sources of data.
• Coordinate internal resources and vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure that the project(s) are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Lead the development team in Bengaluru (if needed).

Our Ideal Candidate

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant computer science, engineering, information technology or related field.
• Entrepreneurial minded, strong analytical problem-solving skills, and an aptitude for learning systems quickly.
• 12 years of delivery lead experience with hands-on experience in solutioning, developing & delivering agile projects (planning, execution and team management) as well as managing a team of tech developers.
• Strong solution architect track record, and eager to contribute actively within SCB's solution architect community.
• Experience in implementing innovative solution and best industry practices in the context of Solution Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP) such as Pair programming, Test Driven Design (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), Test Automation, Refactoring.
• Extensive work experience as Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge of Programming (frontend, backend), DevOps, Cloud, infra, data and analytics technologies.
• Extensive work experience with backend application development using JAVA, Spring framework.
• Experience with integration with Microservices.
• Good working knowledge on frontend application development using React JS.
• Ability to solve complex development problems and produce the highest quality code while striving to push the technical boundaries of online applications.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centred design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and user research.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• High level of autonomy and influence to unblock delivery of results (evaluate and solve difficult problems involving various teams ranging from data instrumentation to analytics tool development).
• A strong desire to establish standards of "Best Practice".
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Provides periodic status reports to project working groups.
• Proven experience dealing with Risk & control related actions and artefacts to supporting internal audit.
• One or more of the following certifications: (1) Certified Scrum Professional (2) SAFe Program Consultant, LeSS or Lean Methodologies.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java Spring Boot, Reach JS
• Elasticsearch, Neo4j
• Database e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Data Technologies

About Standard Chartered
We'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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