Lead Engineer (COBOL)

Job Summary

• This is a Lead Engineer role primary responsible to solution & deliver the operational efficiency initiatives under Vantage programme, they will be working with PO to understand the requirement, implement Agentic AI ways of working, integration with LLM models to solve business problem and deliver highly challenges requirements in stringent timeliness and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Impact analysis and Solution
• Estimation and planning
• Prepare S.I documentation
• Lead the development and testing cycles
• Review delivery artefacts and ensure all delivery is compliant with eSDLC processes and guidelines
• Change management, Implementation and post implementation support
• Stakeholders management from inception, delivery and production support
• Implement innovative ideas to increase productivity and S2B
• Integrate AIDLC into delivery lifecycle

Motivations

• Create a diverse and inclusive environment
• Adopt latest technology/open source to solve business problems, reduce cost and increase Speed to Market
• Drive high performance teams

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills

• COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IBM utilities, Database concepts, Design principles, SDLC process, Agile methodology, Estimation and planning
• MQ, Webservice (XML/JSON), IMS, JIRA/ADO, SCM process, Change-man/ENDEVOR, File transfer techniques
• Stakeholder management, communication, managerial skills

Other Skills

• LLM models, Agentic Development Framework, Python, AI based IDE, Github/MS Copilot
• Midrange/distributes front and backend technologies/framework
• Banking domain
• Automation techniques

Qualifications

Key Experiences

• Mainframe Enterprise application delivery experience in Banking Domain using COBOL, CICS, DB2/IMS DB, webservices/MQ/FTP integration techniquies

Languages

• English

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.