Job Summary

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, and leading the implementation of scalable and secure cloud-based solutions. You will oversee the development and management of API gateways, Kafka-based messaging systems, and ensure seamless integration across platforms. Additionally, you will provide leadership in business-as-usual (BAU) support, ensuring the reliability and performance of critical systems. Your role will involve close collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet business needs while adhering to best practices in cloud architecture and platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

About our Digital Channels & Data Analytics (DCDA) team
They support our corporate clients, by creating a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future for clients and global communities through technology, data and digital. They’re responsible for being an expert in digital products and services and partner with our sales and coverage teams.

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) 
For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Responsibilities 
•    Design and implement scalable cloud architecture solutions to meet business requirements.  
•    Develop and manage API gateways to ensure secure and efficient communication between services.  
•    Lead the implementation and optimization of Kafka-based messaging systems.  
•    Provide BAU support, ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability.  
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions.  
•    Drive automation and best practices in platform engineering processes.  
•    Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues, ensuring timely resolution.  

Qualifications

•    Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent applicable experience.  
•    Managing Incidents, change and problem management activities.  
•    Proven experience in cloud architecture design and implementation.  
•    Expertise in API gateway development and management. 
•    ADO / Devops tools
•    Strong knowledge of Kafka and messaging systems. 
•    Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.  
•    Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.  
•    Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.  

Skills and Experience

•    Cloud Computing
•    Cloud Computing Architecture
•    Agile Development
•    Emerging Technologies
•    Kafka
•    API Gateway

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• 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.