Senior Technical Manager

Job ID: 38290

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 2 Sept 2025

Job Summary

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. What sets us apart is our diversity – of people, cultures and networks. We have more than 86,000 employees from 125 different countries and a presence in 60 markets.

The payments Application is looking for Engineer with strong Technical Skill sets for key Project Deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Resource will be responsible for the overall software engineering output of the team.
• Resource will own the full development lifecycle process inception to production.
• This includes tangible metrics like velocity & quality, delivering features on time and intangible measures like team morale, learning & improvement and advocating best practices across cross functional teams.

Business

• A resource should have predominant banking experience. He should have worked closely with the business providing quality deliverables.

Processes

• Day to day job involves leading multi-shore engineers and working closely with product owner to deliver features incrementally in SCRUM methodology.
• Work closely with Scrum team/Architects to align on the centralized design standards, frameworks & tools to accelerate deliverables.
• Design, Develop, test, deploy the platform.
• Technical Skills required in Core Java, Spring, Hibernate, Azure DevOPS, Oracle SQL Queries, automation frame work and API
• Develop automated tools and accelerators for speedy testing.
• Understand B&M working model and play multiple role like BA, Dev and Test
• Simplify the business requirements and propose clean design with Java technologies.
• Mentor and coach junior developers
• Hands-on coding, develop high quality code while meeting deadlines.
• Good design for given business domain and occasional implementation of POCs & JUNITS
• Work in highly collaborative, fun-loving team using Agile methodology.
• Good understanding of the Systems Implementation Life Cycle

Governance

• Resource should follow the all the SCB processes and Governance.

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

• Product Owner
• Business
• Interface Teams

Skills and Experience

• Java
• Oracle
• Rest API,
• MQ, Solace,
• SFTP,
• MicroService

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/IT, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years Full stack development and unit testing experience and automation framework with decent understanding of core design Patterns
• Hands-on Java, Spring, Hibernate, Azure DevOPS, Selenium, API and Load Runner.
• Experience of Agile/Scrum development methodologies
• Experience with Oracle databases
• Good experience in eSDLC process, ADO Build and release management
• Develop and sustain good relationships with clients & colleagues.
• Support faster delivery by enforcing the use of agile delivery tools.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Should have worked with different regulatory system clearing connectors. Should have hands-on experience on working with external connectivity via multiple protocols such as Rest API, MQ, Solace, SFTP, IBM Connect Direct, WebService and WSS. Should also have experience on different industry standard cash message formats such as ISO20022 – (pain / pacs / camt / admi), ISO8583 (1/2/5/8 series), ISO15022 (MT1xx / 2xx / 9xx), EDIFACT, BAI2 etc., functional knowledge to map / transform from format to another. Having administrative capabilities on MQ / Solace is an added advantage.

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.