Job Summary
- We are looking for highly talented and ambitious individuals to join us as we embark on this journey of innovation, collaboration and co-creation. 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.
- As part of the Technology team, you will be a
- Techno banker involved in creating and designing cutting edge tools and applications that will redefine the future of banking
- Work in a truly Agile environment, as part of scrum teams that are striving to solve customer challenges
- Play a critical role in client journeys that help us make faster decisions to enhance the end-to-end client experience and achieve outcomes that are most valuable to our clients
- Part of a tribe of competence
Responsibilities
Strategy
Desired Competencies
- Proven ability to think out-of-the-box, fostering innovation and automation
- Analyse business problems and help to arrive at technically advanced solutions
- Proven ability that establish a strong team-player approach to problem solving
- Strong foundational knowledge of Algorithms, Data Structures, OOPs concepts and frameworks
- Curious learner, willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks
- Empowered mindset with ability to ask questions and seek clarifications
- Excellent communication skills that enable seamless interactions with colleagues globally
- Strong technical skills, with exposure to coding in any next-gen tech
- Awareness of Agile methodologies
- Object-oriented programming languages, i.e. Java, C#, Go
- Modern technologies like Microservices, UI frameworks Angular, React, Lit
- Cloud technologies AWS and Azure
- Middleware Springboot, Nginx
- Gen AI/Prompt Engineering/Machine Learning algorithms
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.
Our Ideal Candidate
- 2+ years experience in Designing, Developing and Maintaining Software Applications. Create efficient, reliable and scalable code for new software applications and/or improve existing ones. This includes both backend and frontend development (full-stack) based on project requirements
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams. Work closely with product managers, designers and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide input on feasibility, and deliver solutions aligned with business goals
- Conduct Code Reviews and Ensure Quality Standards. Participate in code reviews to improve code quality, ensure adherence to best practices and provide constructive feedback. Actively contribute to improving coding standards and development practices.
- Troubleshoot, Debug and Optimise Performance. Identify and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks in the software, ensuring a seamless user experience. Conduct regular testing to maintain high reliability and performance levels.
- Document Software and Technical Processes. Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for code, technical designs and processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and support future maintenance
Membership
- Contribution to open source communities
- Participation in HackerRank/ Hackathons
Certifications - Certification from reputed development community like Google developer certification, Microsoft certified solution developer
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Technical Skills and Coding Proficiency
- System Design & Architecture
- Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Communication & Collaboration
- Adaptability & Continuous Learning
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.
Recruitment Assessments
Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've 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.
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers
