Standard Charteredposted about 1 month ago
Full-time - Senior
Hybrid - Bangalore, IN
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
About the position
The Chapter Area Lead Back-end development - WRB Tech is a leadership role focusing on people development & capability building in backend technologies. The role is also accountable for defining the operating model of the Chapter area and also support capacity planning across Squads/ hives.
Responsibilities
- Define technology strategy & roadmap to create micro services, re-usable APIs and its integration for platforms and applications across WRB.
- Provide inputs in technology evaluations, RFPs related to back-end development.
- Establish a robust deployment topology to cater to critical non-functional requirements such as Zero down-time, blue-green deployments, graceful degradation of services in the event of catastrophic failures.
- Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices.
- Provide thought leadership on the craft, inspire and retain talents by developing and nurturing an extensive internal and external network of practitioners.
- Creates a strategy roadmap of technical work.
- Works to drive technology convergence and simplification across their chapter area.
- Work with business to identify projected growth volumes of customer/ consumer traffic, perform capacity planning of back end infrastructure resources.
- Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
- Scales the practices and capabilities across multiple hives i.e. mobile/front end experience across the app, driving consistency across skill domains.
- Establish a change and release management process that avoids down-time (Blue-green/ Canary).
- Monitor and proactively upgrade backend platforms to reduce obsolescence/ security vulnerabilities.
- Establish and operate an API platform promoting re-use of APIs across WRB including API discoverability.
- Adopt and embed the Change Delivery Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.
- Ensure role, job descriptions and expectations are clearly set and periodic feedback provided to the chapter leads.
- Ensures the establishment of capability development systems across the chapter area, measuring and tracking the improvement of their chapter area members as well as chapter leads.
- Accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members.
- Reviews metrics on capabilities and performance across all of the Chapters in their area, has improvement backlog for their Chapters and drives continual improvement of Chapters.
- Responsible for effective capacity risk management across the Chapter Area with regards to attrition and leave plans.
- Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies.
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 14+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language and framework (e.g., Java/Spring, Python/Django).
- Solid understanding of database management systems, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Expertise in performance engineering of distributed systems.
- Ability to articulate the overall vision for the Chapters and ensure upskilling of the organisation holistically.
- Experience in identifying skill gaps and mitigate risks to deliverables.
- Ensure all solutions are as per Architecture Standards.
- Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git, Bitbucket and CI / CD platforms like ADO, Jenkins.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
Nice-to-haves
- Operating Systems
- Network Fundamentals
- Security Fundamentals
- Database Development
- CI/CD
- Container platforms - Kubernetes, Podman, OCP
Benefits
- 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.
