Lead, Development

Job Description

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Job Summary

- Planning and managing E2E Project deliverables along with Project KPI's submission on time to the Program Management
- Resolving technical issues and obstacles that arise during development.
- Overseeing the Technical direction of projects, contributing to code development and ensuring adherence to industry best practices.
- Mentoring junior developers, facilitating communication, and fostering collaboration within the team.
- Acting as a liaison between the technical teams, clients, and other stakeholders to provide updates, manage expectations, and facilitate clear communication.
- Overseeing all phases of a project from planning and scheduling to execution and completion, ensuring alignment with the defined scope and objectives.
- Allocating resources, managing team workload, and ensuring the right personnel and tools are available for each task to optimize efficiency.
- Identifying potential project risks, developing mitigation strategies, and proactively addressing issues to prevent delays or quality compromises.
- Often involved in fostering Agile practices within teams, facilitating ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospectives to ensure iterative and efficient delivery.
- Leverage technical knowledge to support projects, evaluate technology options, and ensure proper installation and maintenance of hardware and software.
- Managing Software Development life cycle controls and ensuring controls are meeting compliance Process.
- identified Project risks upfront and audit readiness enabling organizational resilience
- Coordinating with Project key stakeholder on a weekly basis and updating them on a timely manner regarding Project milestone and deliverables.
- Builds and mentors high-performing, cross-functional teams; drives coaching, career paths and a continuous-learning culture.
- Maintain right resource mix
- Manage Test Environment
- Promote equality within the Team
- Raise appropriate Risk, Issues, Dispensation whenever required

Responsibilities

Strategy

- Ensure risks/issues are captured for all projects and ensure that any changes to milestone deliverables (scope, due date etc.,) have been approved by relevant PWG/PSC/PRC
- Mitigation of risks and resolution of issues in a timely manner including developing suitable controls and measuring their effectiveness
- Adopt DevOps in all the projects
- Procure dispensation on valid cases
- Planning and manage test environments.

Business

- Drive Team for the development completion on time
- Closely work with BA/PO/Dev team for the deliverables
- Prepare overall Program Strategy along with roadmap for the area.
- Plan and execute activities in relation to Development activities
- Communicate to stakeholders on the Project Status, risks and issue resolution
- Manage and coordinate all the Key Interface Teams

Processes

- Ensuring no adversely rated test audit, no medium or high risks rated test issues from audit and No expired/overdue risks or actions from audits
- Thorough understanding of the system and data architecture of the underlying product
- Adoption of model across all domains with appropriate test methodology aligned to each project and evidence
- Mandatory e-Learning completion
- Enchanting block leave
- Data Leakage Prevention
- Adherence to Group Code of Conduct
- Marking Daily Time sheet with specific tasks

People & Talent

- Adherence to hygiene factors focused from the hub
- Investigating on My Voice feedback and improve team engagement.
- Reinforce leadership and increasing participation in Leadership & Hi-connect sessions.
- Ensure Billability for the team
- Ensure SOWs are in place and extensions and terminations of contracts are managed to avoid cost leakage
- Maintain the right permanent: vendor mix as per the bank's policy

Risk Management

- Ensure all the SDF Templates followed on all the Test Deliverables.
- QA Review / TDA / Internal / External Audit controls should be maintained in central repository
- Document all the RAID details in the Test Strategy with appropriate Mitigation plan.
- Highlight appropriate Risks in QPR forum / Program weekly meetings

Governance

- Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
- Take a proactive approach save effort and improve efficiency
- Collaborate with the stakeholders to drive through initiatives
- Ensure regression pack are executed for any changes to the system
- Ensure Performance Testing for the changes to the system
- Collaborate with other test managers to ensure all testing is completed before Go Live
- Create test strategy and Test Schedule
- Knowledgeable to prepare estimates for large projects
- Guide Leads and team on testing approach
- Creative to resolve challenges during testing
- Drive initiatives and impress on key stakeholders
- Take tough decisions in the interest of project
- Prepare Closure report and Quality Gate checklist

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
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

- Program Team
- Scrum Teams
- BA/PO Team
- Interface Teams

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in INDIA - CCIB - TB- CASH]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Our Ideal Candidate

- MCA/BE/BTech Computer science
- PMP
- Project Management certification

Role Specific Technical Competencies

- API & Microservices
- Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Database Technologies (SQL, NoSQL)
- Integration Technologies
- Agile Methodologies, Lean Framework
- Web & Mobile app 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.

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