Principal Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

• A talented and passionate senior individual to join Standard Chartered as a Principal Engineer. In this role, you will drive the engineering strategy of the platform teams under Technology & Architecture. This role will play a critical part in helping shape and guide the future growth and development for Technology Strategy & Architecture and will be responsible for the creation and transformation of the capabilities that will define how we organise to deliver on the strategy. This includes leading the design and delivery of certain platform capabilities crucial to our strategy. In addition, you will be the example for engineering excellence and will set the engineering practices for the organization. This includes defining the proper practices for code reviews, testing, software and pipeline design, and ensuring proper security and reliability practices are enforced.
• Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) is a global organisation providing Cloud, Data, End User, Infrastructure, Integration, IT Service Management, Network and Security capabilities to all our clients and colleagues globally with an operating budget of $500mil USD and $200mil USD of change 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Have the responsibility to deliver the architectural requirements on functional and non-functional (security and reliability) of technology platform under Software Engineering platform services
• Lead the design and delivery of strategic initiatives for T&A
• A versatile engineer that can be the subject matter expert for certain areas of the platform that’s provided by the T&A software engineering platforms
• Standardised and simplify software engineering platform landscape and architecture
• Deliver on the best practices for engineering to enable business and platform performance
• Ensure adequate engineering practices are implemented to deliver to the highest standard across the department
• Develop and champion solutions through coding and automation 
• Ensure platform delivery and services meet highest level of standard of availability and reliability.

• Ensure platform delivery and services meet security and risk requirements and operational SLA.
• Perform extensive periodic code-review and improvements to our code-base
• Perform extensive periodic reliability and security review to our platform
• Anticipate and evaluate business challenges and take action to mitigate
• Develop opportunities for innovation and out of the box thinking
• Enforce (through automation) engineering processes and policies and associated risk controls

Business

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver new solutions and new practices to ensure the organisation capitalises on industry learning and growth
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects
• Appraise and interpret complex requirements to understand the impact of the organisation’s ability to deliver change

Processes

• Realize the end-to-end delivery practice and its associated list of processes
• Responsible for delivery processes
• Be responsible for the risk management of change
• Drive the optimisation of delivery by reviewing and optimising data pertaining to the effectiveness of change

Risk Management

• Own the risks linked to the delivery of code into production
• Own the risks linked to the maintenance of code in production
• Own the end-to-end risks associated with the dev/test environments and the requisite tooling
• Drive for the closure of risks, operational events and audit findings on time, once and done
• Educate the team on risk management and continual mitigating of risk
• Comply with organisation risk management framework
• Find automated solutions to reduce risk and prevent human and manual solutions

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. 

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 mattersTake 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

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Demonstrate expertise in developing and designing reliable software for distributed systems.
• Has good fundamentals pertaining to software engineering, containers, databases, networks, and infrastructure.
• Has experience working for heavily regulated financial institutions with a good understanding of security and risk.
• Ability to demonstrate expertise in one or two programming languages preferably Python and Golang

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Coding
• Software Architecture
• Risk Management
• Cloud Pipelines and Environments
• Containers, Networking, and Infrastructure
• Software engineering and DevOps (coding, testing, performance testing, CI/CD, monitoring)
• Machine Learning (knowledge and experience is a plus)
• Security (encryption, mutual TLS, hashing etc.)

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.

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