Development Manager - SCVentures Lydia Venture

Standard Chartered Bank ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time

Overview

Standard Chartered, are a global bank which is big enough to be relevant to the world's most sophisticated corporations but small enough to be local, nimble and innovate. We tap into the DNA as a global trade bank, committing to the dynamic markets where we have operated for over 150 years. We link these markets with each other, as well as to Europe and the Americas, to help them corporate and institutional clients manage their global investing and financing needs. In addition, Standard Chartered use their deep knowledge in local markets to help our customers and clients grow, invest and protect their wealth. Standard Chartered believe that every colleague plays a tangible role in delivering our purpose - "Driving commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity." We all feel strongly about living our valued behaviours - Never Settle, Doing the Right Thing, and Better Together and our culture makes this organisation special. Standard Chartered Bank have always sought continuously to improve, to challenge ourselves and to drive change within the industry, the world we live in, and with ourselves to live up to our brand promise - to be Here for good. The Role Responsibilities; SC Ventures (SCV) spearheads the bank's innovation across the Group. Included in SCV's mandate will be to invest in FinTech's and other start-up companies, promote rapid testing and implementation of new business models. SCV will work with businesses and functions across the Group in three key areas of eXellerator, investments, and ventures. Looking for a development manager to lead a team of server-side Java developers, dev-ops engineers and UI/mobile team. The development manager's role is the CTO's deputy, leading the team and align the technical deliveries with the business roadmap. The technologies used by the back-end are: OpenJDK 13, Gradle, Intellij, Postgresql, JSON, JUnit, Quartz, JWT, JOOQ, Liquidbase, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS cloud stack, Solace VMR. Maintain strong relationship and works closely with Product Owner Team to align design and roadmap with Business expectations, participate in daily huddle and reports team's progress and issue in a timely and transparent manner, Is in charge of code review, guarantee traceability of code in alignment epics, stories and tasks as agreed during design phase in compliance with the company's standards and policies, Also prevents from insertions of malicious code in the releases. Structure support level 3. Works in collaboration with 24x7 monitoring team in regards with Incident and escalation process. Delivers a platform consistent with the SLAs signed with the customer (availability, performance, resiliency) Works closely with CSO and by all means protects the development platform as well as the releases repository from fraudulent access and modifications. Skills Required; Java server-side development experience with decent understanding of core design patterns Development manager experience Hands on experience in Java 8 and above Knowledge of software best practices and coding best practices (Clean Code) is a must Strong experience RESTful services Understanding of concurrent, multi-threaded, distributed application environments Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline is a plus Knowledge of Unix/Linux environments is plus Experience working with AWS Cloud is plus Knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies is a plus Understanding of symmetric/asymmetric algorithms is a plus Knowledge of digital assets, crypto-currencies, blockchains and DLT a massive plus Your Responsibility; Great team leader and good personality Not afraid to code to help, understand, debug with the dev team (UI, Server-side, DevOps) Ensure high quality deliveries What you can expect from Standard Chartered At Standard Chartered our unrivalled network and unique markets not only delivers value for our clients, makes the biggest difference in our communities, but also created opportunities for unparalleled career and development experiences. Your hard work and talent are valued very highly, which is why you can expect a carefully chosen package of rewards with a total offering including a flexible working policy to support your work-life balance. After all, your well being is just as important as salary and benefits. Standard Chartered also offers career and development opportunities, plus the chance to build your skills, we believe in investing in your development, so you can go as far as you want. High quality managers are an important part of that, and our leaders ensure you're supported, inspired and recognised.