Job Description

Role Responsibilities
This role in Client Coverage Technology is within BPSI (Banking Platform and Integration Services) for the position of Solution Design / Architect.
This position will be key to strategic programme - Banking platform interfaces and services, that will be a global banks servicing layer for data domain interfaces. BPSI platform is going to be the future Integration platform for SCB, the objectives of the BPSI platform are as follows

• Domain Centric Data Model
• Real Time Data Availability
• Lean Data Management
• Inherent Data Entitlement
• Inherent Data Protection

Our Ideal Candidate
The Solution Design / Architect must have proven credentials of designing end to end solutions in world class engineering teams and having 15 years of relevant experience.
Candidate should have good hands on programming and debugging skills, recommend future technology capabilities and architecture design considering business objectives, technology strategy, trends and regulatory requirements, strong analytical and problem solving, ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks, responsible for the code quality measures, possess good verbal and written communication skills, good understanding of software development lifecycle using Agile / Waterfall models, understanding of Coding standards, design patterns and guidelines.

• Must be a confident self-starter with ability to collaborate and devise solutions.
• Relevant industry certifications are an added plus.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks is required.
• Experience in application development for Data Platforms.
• Experience in application development for Data Platform Security.
• Experience in Service Oriented Architecture implementations.
• Hands-on experience on Linux / Unix environments.
• Able to present Business Case and Cost Justification of the development of IT Systems.
• Should have designed the software for performance, scalability and other non-functional requirements while working with infrastructure and project team to ensure architecture standards are implemented.
• Good knowledge on object-oriented analysis and design, Java / J2EE - strong knowledge of server-side programming.
• Good understanding of concepts of collections, multithreading and OOPS concept, API and Service Mesh Platform and hands-on experience in Kubernetes and Docker.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience in Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps - CI/CD (Ansible, Maven, Sonar, JIRA, Liquibase).
• Strong Experience in application integration using Web Service (SOAP / REST / GRPC) or Messaging using JMS, designing caching services for IMDG like Ignite, Hazelcast, data models for Graph databases like DSE Datastax and neo4j.
• Database - strong RDBMS skills around writing efficient SQL's and procedures. Good understanding of database concepts like index's and query plan.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong programming and hands-on skills in Java and Streaming.
• 15 years of working experience
• Hands-on knowledge in Ignite or Hazelcast, DSE DataStax or Neo4j.
• Good fundamental skills on Unit testing and code coverage using JUnit / QUnit.
• Good knowledge in application integration using Web Service (SOAP / REST / GRPC) or Messaging using JMS, Kafka.
• Hands-on experience on Linux / Unix environments.
• Understanding on tools like Jenkins / Go-CD, Git / Stash, JIRA, Maven, NodeJS.
• Good hands on Data structure and Algorithms.
• Good hands on knowledge on AWS DevOps tools like Terraforms / AMI Bakery, Ansible, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift and service Mesh.
• Good knowledge in open source frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Aspects and Apache Libraries (Camel / ActiveMQ / Commons).
• Hands-on skills in JEE specifications like JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JPA.
• Good knowledge in dependency injections like Spring DI / Blueprints and JSON libraries like Jackson / GSON.
• Hands-on knowledge in application servers / containers JBoss Fuse, Tomcat, etc.
• Hands-on knowledge in Oracle, SQL, BPM products like jBPM or Cammunda, etc.
• Understanding on rule engines like Drools.

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 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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