Full Job Description
About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It’s about showing how you embody our valued behaviours – do the right thing, better together and never settle – as well as our brand promise, Here for good.
We’re committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture – one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
The Role Responsibilities
Define the target architecture and cloud services to use for the application
Mentor application teams to define the target architecture and cloud services
Apply the architecture and design patterns for cloud
Evaluate and propose new technologies for business solutions.
Interact with application teams to understand business requirements and expectations.
Establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes, and tools.
Technical product qualification (benchmarking, suitability, performance characteristics) of relevant hardware and software for use case requirements.
Write server side code to create robust production offerings that are highly available, scalable and can cope with burst demand.
Develop Infrastructure as code using templates, scripts and other automation technologies
Liaison with other cloud teams across the bank to build cloud native applications
Champion Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes.
Ensure proactive capacity planning and expansions.
Strategy
Responsibilities that are related to the development and implementation of Big Data based projects/solutions for CPBB Data initiatives aligned to CPBB Data strategy.
Business
Should have prior work experience in Retail Banking domain and should have an understanding of retail banking products like CASA, Deposits, Loans and Cards.
Processes
Should have atleast 10 years’ experience in end-to-end SDLC process in waterfall or Agile mode of delivery . Should have participated in Agile ceremonies.
Should have DevOps experience and CI/CD pipeline deployment
Should have sound understanding of technology Risk Management processes
People and Talent
Should have led small to medium teams in developing and delivering Big data applications
Risk Management
Should be able to identify, mitigate and track delivery risks for a project
Governance
Should have been part of Project Governance reporting to Project Working group or Steering group
Regulatory & Business Conduct
Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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 Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Our Ideal Candidate
Overall Experience 10 to 14 years in IT Industry performing various roles in one of these areas: infrastructure, Architecture or Full Stack development or Data Engineering
Relevant cloud related design, architecture, engineeting experience of at least 5 years
Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: IT related tertiary qualification or equivalent experience.
Licences and Certifications / accreditations – Associate or Professional level of AWS Certification (SA, SysOps), ITIL v3
Technology Competencies
Proficient in scripting language such as Python, JavaScript or Perl
Required expertise with Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL (RDS)
Experience with Big Data Technologies, Hadoop /HDFS/Hive and other distributed computing technologies
Required expertise with MongoDB, Cassandra DB, Redis or other noSQL/in memory databases
Required expertise Software Defined compute, storage, networks (SDDC).
Required expertise in networking, VPC, DirectConnect, ELB, Route 53, Cloud Front
Required expertise in cloud security, policies, IAM
Strongly advantageous – experience of deploying and controlling virtual machines in a cloud services environment, preferably with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
Required experience and expertise in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practise, tooling and techniques (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Packer, Rundeck, Ansible, AppDynamics)
Required experience with at least one of data analytics tools such as Splunk and/or ELK.
Required ability to write code. Ideally in Python or Java.
Strongly advantageous experience and demonstrable accomplishments as a DevOps or automation engineer.
Strongly advantageous experience of successful and demonstrable achievements in collaborative working with compliance, technology risk and regulatory requirement specialists.
Advantageous extensive experience and demonstrable accomplishments in selecting, designing and implementing automation and compliance frameworks that are applied to virtual compute resource deployments in the cloud.
Advantageous deep experience in multi-tier application architecture, development, deployment and support.
Advantageous knowledge of writing code to produce and consume RESTful API’s.
PERSONAL AND INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS
Delivers by possessing productivity, professionalism, customer service attitude, attention to detail and quality; ability to multitask; strong interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills and adherence to standard operating procedures.
Demonstrates ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and ability to take direction from multiple areas.
Comfortable in an agile and fast-moving environment.
Developing Self & Others through Coaching, Contributing to Team, continuously learning and sharing knowledge.
QUALIFICATIONS
Overall Experience 10 to 14 years in IT Industry performing various roles in one of these areas: infrastructure, Architecture or Full Stack development or Data Engineering
Relevant cloud related design, architecture, engineeting experience of at least 5 years
Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: IT related tertiary qualification or equivalent experience.
Licences and Certifications / accreditations – Associate or Professional level of AWS Certification (SA, SysOps), ITIL v3
Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.
To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages. We welcome conversations on flexible working.