Job Summary

•    Develop and deliver the SCPAY application, aligning with Business Strategy, ITO Strategy and investment priorities.

Strategy

•    Tap into latest industry trends, innovative products & solutions to deliver effective and faster product capabilities 
•    Support CASH Management Operations leveraging technology to streamline processes, enhance productivity, reduce risk and improve controls

Responsibility

•    Design and develop software, translate user stories into functional applications meeting business timelines
•    Write clean, efficient, maintainable, and reusable code in Java, following the language’s coding standards and best practices
•    Ensure the best possible resilience, performance and quality of the applications
•    Ensure good unit test code coverage
•    Monitor and fix the issues found in security scans and ensure applications are compliant
•    Support all testing activities including SIT/UAT/performance test/regression test etc.
•    Prepare for releases and standby to support the releases
•    Perform L3 support on rota and work with Production Support to resolve issues
•    Work with SCPay architect to discuss system architecture and software designs
•    Thrive an ecosystem of innovation and enabling business through technology

Key Responsibilities

Risk Management

•    Be proactive in ensuring regular assurance that the Payments ITO Team is performing to acceptable risk levels and control standards
•    Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure those are addressed within quick / prescribed timeframes and escalated through the relevant committees
•    Balance business delivery on time, quality and cost constraints with risks & controls to ensure that they do not materially threaten the Group’s ability to remain within acceptable risk levels 
•    Ensure business continuity and disaster recovery planning for the entire technology portfolio.

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.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders

•    Solution Architect – SCPAY
•    Development Leader, QA team, Production support team
•    Product Owner, Payment Operation team

Other Responsibilities

•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in ; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).

Skills and Experience

•    Agile process and Scrum Methodology
•    Facilitating Scrum ceremonies
•    Servant Leadership qualities
•    JIRA Knowledge
•    Communication
•    Interpersonal skills

Qualifications

•    Solid knowledge and hands-on skills in Java development.
•    Hands-on skill in Spring Boot, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, Oracle DB, PostgresSQL, Hazelcast. Openshift, Grafana, Splunk, ELK  
•    Experienced in payment system design is an advantage.
•    Effective verbal and written English communication skills.

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.