Engineering Lead

Job ID: 29274

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 3 Jul 2025

Job Summary

• Experienced Technology Delivery professional who manages the successful technical delivery of products. A skilled technology expert who works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver solution intent and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.
• Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
• Oversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable
• Design APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards
• Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.
• Present Solutions to the architecture review forum.
• Architecture Review Forum: 4 statements that requires PO's attestation (part of LuW)
• In submitting this initiative for approval at the QPR, I attest that I have started or completed these requirements
• Where I have started but not completed these requirements, this is in accordance with the requirements from the risk group
• Where I have not started, I have received dispensation from the respective risk group(s) to proceed without fulfilling the requirements, in part or in full
• Where I have not received dispensation, I have received approval from the QPR Coordinator to submit this initiative into the proposed backlog for approval"
• Align with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.
• Align technical solutions and the applications with established security control requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to avoid potential penalties

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Security Champions to identify and implement the necessary security controls tailored to the specific delivery or process.Identify Applicable Security controls by engaging with Security Champs
• Review and approve the chapter 1 & 2 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.

Strategy

Business

• Develop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Subdomain Tech Lead.

Processes

• Regularly reviews squad metrics in regards to Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.
• Work with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.

People & Talent

• Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives

Governance

• Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production
• The controls cover: Requirements, Architecture (see Architecture Review Forum below), Security (see Cyber Security Services below), Development, Testing, IT Resilience, Service Level Management, Tech Operations & Support, Release Management, SW Configuration Management

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.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats);

Skills and Experience

• Java/J2EE, Soap, Rest, XML, JSON Jspring, Jboss Fuse
• Agile/Scrum
• Cloud Engineering / Architecture
• Oracle / PostgreSQL
• Mobile Platform Skills
• DevOps

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of experience in Software Development domain.

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.