Job Summary
As the Lead, Central Platform Development, you will play a critical role in making the internal state of the bank's application and infrastructure services visible to stakeholders for troubleshooting, performance analysis, capacity planning, and reporting through the Central Monitoring and Observability Platform. You will lead the develop the bank's central monitoring and observability platform and tooling to enable product owners, developers, and operators to efficiently trace performance problems to their source and map their application performance to business objectives. You will lead the backend cloud services development of the central observability platform for the applications / Infrastructure including Platform, Database, Integration, Reliability, and Cloud Operations teams, as well as product owner and developer / engineering teams.
- Our ideal candidate should have overall minimum of 8+ years of IT experience
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or Information Systems or equivalent applicable experience
- Mentor the development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development. Develop Agile adoption strategy.
- Coach/Mentor team in terms of creating structure to the book of work. Help team with organised product backlog.
- Coordinate and participate in estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
- Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning through agile techniques & practices.
- Facilitate Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
- Collaborate with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
- Engage teams at enterprise level to coach & implement agile practices.
- Understanding of Agile practices; Has detailed exposure to Scrum, Kanban & other agile frameworks.
- Experienced in coaching & mentoring the cross functional teams to deliver quality products.
- Experience in implementing Agile Scrum Methodology with teams to improve communications between Engineering, Product Management, and Business; to provide more transparency across the 3 departments; and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds.
- Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
- Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
- Software development life cycle knowledge in terms of analysis, development & testing phases.
Strategy
- Awareness and understanding of the TTO'25 business strategy and model appropriate to the role. Support and the enablement of the Central Monitoring & Observability strategy, goals and objectives by developing prioritized features aligned to the Catalyst and Tech Simplification programmes.
Business
- The Monitoring & Observability Platform team is a global team ensuring the design, development, delivery & support of the bank's central monitoring and observability services for all TTO teams (technology domains).
- The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of in one or more of the integration technologies (Elastic Observability, Grafana Observability or ITRS Geneos) and its other required capabilities, such as Kafka messaging, database management, enabling the design, development, implementation, and management of the central solution, integrating advanced technological tools and techniques, and overseeing large-scale enterprise-level implementations.
Processes
- As the Squad Lead, Central Platform Development, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our applications and platform integrations, thereby enabling our organization to deliver exceptional services to our internal stakeholders by adhering to the Enterprise SDLC (eSDLC) framework and guidelines.
People & Talent
- Actively engaging in stakeholders conversations, providing timely, clear and actionable feedback to deliver solution within timeline.
Risk Management
- The ability to interpret the Group's technical and security (ICS) control requirements and information to identify potential risks and key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures to mitigate or minimize risk to the central monitoring & observability platform delivery.
Governance
- Awareness and understanding of the eSDLC framework, in which the TTO software delivery operates, and the requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
- Responsible for adhering to the effectiveness of the central monitoring and observability platform deliver governance, based on oversight and controls of the eSDLC framework.
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.
Key Stakeholders
- TTO CIO Development teams
- TTO Product Owners
- TTO SRE / PSS
- TTO Cloud Engineering
- ET Foundation Service Owners
Other Responsibilities
- Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in the Observability Platform Team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)
- Participate in solution architecture / design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning activities
- Create sustainable solutions and services through automation and service uplifts within monitoring and observability disciplines
Qualification
- Education Degree
- Training Agile Delivery, DevOps
- Certifications Any Programming or K8s or AWS Certifications
- Languages English
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Agile Delivery
- Application Delivery Process
- Software Engineering
- Software Product Technical Knowledge
- Software Quality Assurance
- Application Programming
- Application Integration
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.
