Lead, Development

Job Description

Job Summary

• Should have overall 8+ years of relevant experience in IT industry and preferably majority in banking domain with exposure to Screening/AML.
• Should have 6+ years of experience in owning project deliverables and activities, that also includes Release Management.
• You participate in all phases of the design, test, and implementation process, helping to modify the project scope, identify and troubleshoot problems with implementation or efficiency, perform data analysis to assess what types of modifications need to occur, and determine how well the new implementations are working
• Should have excellent motivation, communication skills (oral & written) along with good presentation and documentation skills.
• Provides input to the project plan or estimating the implementation cost.
• Ability to multi-task and engage productively on multiple projects simultaneously
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
• Manage the communication channels and relationships with senior stakeholders. Ensure all stakeholders are sufficiently briefed.
• Liaise with multiple application teams & co-ordinate for issue resolution. Willing to work on-call support over weekends
• Work closely with Business Analysts to analyse the requirements and develop detailed technical specifications.
• Must be a team player who works with technical and non-technical resources. Should be mentoring and guiding the team in day-to-day technical activities.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups Values and Code of Conduct.

ResponsibilitiesStrategy

• 4 to 6 Years of experience in application development using Python,Hive, SQL, Postgres, UNIX(RHEL) and Advance Technologies tool.
• Foster engineering mindset among the people and develop talent within the team
• Maintains the deepest level of industry and product expertise in areas of Name Screening/Transaction Screening and role played by AI/ML tools in these areas.
• Configure create and Demonstrate the technical components for Silent8, Fircosoft product using tools and expertise in the areas of system configuration, APIs, Javascript/Jquery, unix shell script, SQL query
• Strategize and hands-on on new areas like choice of design patterns and principles, databases, API strategies, Microservices led Architecture as part of Engineering stream
• Good understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks.
• Develops implementation tools and process with an eye on automating manual activities.
• Ability to build extensible and scalable solutions.
• Experience in presenting solutions to architecture forums and follow the principles and standards in implementation.
• Perform functional and technical Infrastructure review activities for prod/non prod environments for ensuring high availability and performance as per engagement in the project.
• Support and guide in finding and resolving critical production issues by analysis monitoring, logs and tracing information. Ability to debug & write / modify Shell script/Python

BusinessFunctions domainProcesses

• Compliance on ICS guidelines, Security and Data protection
• Compliant to SDF/TDA/RAT process and drive bank towards automating process areas removing redundancies
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models.
• Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
• Ability to work in quick paced, dynamic environment adapting agile methodologies.
• Knowledge on testing methodologies like performance testing, smoke testing, stress testing, endurance testing, etc.
• Run code reviews and ensure the implementation adheres to standards and solution design

People & Talent

• Capable of working collaboratively with senior stakeholders.
• Should be able to positively motivate the team members to achieve stretched objectives.
• Capable of resolving issues quickly that arise among team members. Should be able to manage escalations from stakeholders.
• Should foster healthy work relationships and raise objections in a professional manner.

Risk Management

• Should be able to manage risks effectively by envisioning those well in advance and working towards the right mitigation approach.

Governance

• Should be aware of Agile ceremonies, participate effectively in scrum calls, and track actions to closure.
• Should have strong governance knowledge of project SDLC

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the .
• 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 the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Banks Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• CFCC & T&I stakeholders at director/MD level, Technology Domain Head, Line Manager, Risk business, Scrum Masters & Production support & implementation teams

Other Responsibilities

• The role will be part of a nimble and lean agile squad. Hence the ideal candidate would need to multihat in terms of technology SME, domain SME and delivery roles.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coach teams on niche technologies like data science/Cloud etc for agile delivery
• Self-assured, with the confidence to be the voice of reason & authority while maintaining a focus on Servant Leadership

Qualifications

• Knowledge in Oracle/Unix/Data science
• Knowledge of Name screening and Transaction Screening applications is preferable.
• Knowledge/certifications on Data Science or Machine learning is desirable
• CSM (Certified Scrum Master) or PSM (Professional Scrum Master) will be an added advantage

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL Skills And Competencies

• Python
• Unix
• Oracle
• Agile delivery
• Communication skills
• Devops
• Data Science

About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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Keyskills :
HiveoraclepythonMachine Learningshell scriptJavascriptSqljqueryData ScienceDevopsPostgresunixData Analysisagile deliveryCommunication Skills