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A skilled technology expert who works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeliver solution intent and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.\nSupport business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.\nOversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable\nDesign APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards\nManage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.\nPresent Solutions to the architecture review forum.\nArchitecture Review Forum: 4 statements that requires PO's attestation (part of LuW)\nIn submitting this initiative for approval at the QPR, I attest that I have started or completed these requirements\nWhere I have started but not completed these requirements, this is in accordance with the requirements from the risk group\nWhere 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\nWhere I have not received dispensation, I have received approval from the QPR Coordinator to submit this initiative into the proposed backlog for approval\nAlign with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.\nAlign technical solutions and the applications with established security control requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to avoid potential penalties\nCollaborate 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\nReview and approve the chapter 1 & 2 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.\nComplete comprehensive security impact assessments to ensure compliance with governance requirements and mitigate potential risks.\nEnsure compliance with bank compliance guidelines & standards (e.g., data protection), address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle\nPerform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications\nCollaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.\nProactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.\nDevelop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.\nRegularly reviews squad metrics on Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.\nWork with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.\nDevelop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Subdomain Tech Lead.\nEnsure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.\nExecute the Hive’s product vision with the Chief Product Owner.\nCommunicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders\nContribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.\nStay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives\nInfluence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.\nIncorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.\nAlign detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture and product/platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards\nSupport the squad in clearly slice the back log into independently shippable experience for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.\nIdentify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.\nAccountable to work with technical counterparts to mitigate technical debt and balance risk, and regulatory items with new features, functionality, or changes to keep the cost of change low.\nResponsible to work in partnership with technology to ensure a balance of functional and non-functional requirements are represented in the backlog and that there is an approach to mitigate or avoid technical debt.\nLead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.\nAct as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.\nDrive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments.\nCollaborate with vendors to integrate vendor deliverables with internal systems and resolve any issues impacting delivery.\nDrive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.\nCreate and manage the E2E Implementation architecture with very strong knowledge in AI Chatbot & VoiceBot solutions architecture, customization, configuration, integration, coding, design patterns and custom business logic\nEngagement during requirements gathering\nDesign review of AI Chatbot & VoiceBot solutions including integrations\nGuidance of best practices for AI Chatbot & VoiceBot solutions implementations\nIdentify potential project risks and issues\nSupport anchoring of overall technical solution while cascading the same to project delivery teams\nCreating the optimum technical solution in the context of the customer's environment, requirements, and financial resources.\nEnsure adherence to Bank’s standards and acceptance at architectural review meeting.\nDevelopment of Data Flows/Data Sets/Strategies required to support the Reporting Requirements\nUnderstanding the NBA requirements and the complete AI Chatbot & VoiceBot solutions architecture\nReviewing and contributing to the deployment activities and practices\nContributing to overall technical solution and putting it to practice\nBusiness\nDevelop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Subdomain Tech Lead.\nProcesses\nRegularly reviews squad metrics regarding Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.\nWork with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.\nPeople & Talent\nContribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.\nStay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives\nGovernance\nTechnology Governance\nComply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production\nThe 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\nRegulatory & Business Conduct\nDisplay exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.\nTake 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.\nLead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles\nEffectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters\nSkills and Experience\nJava/J2EE, Soap, Rest, XML, JSON Jspring, Jboss Fuse\nAgile/Scrum\nCloud Engineering / Architecture\nOracle / PostgreSQL\nMobile Platform Skills\nDevOps\nDeep understanding and knowledge on Deep understanding and knowledge on AI foundations (RAG, LLM/SLM, vector DB, intent classification, dialog management), Speech and NLP capabilities (STT, TTS, sentiment, transcription)\nDeep understanding and knowledge on integration layer (APIs, middleware, event streaming, data pipelines)\nQualifications\n10+ years of experience in software development domain.\nExperience in the software development using Agile methodologies\nStrong AI engineering experience (MLOps, ML, RAG, NLP)\nExperience in conversational AI chatbot and voicebot design for banking and financial markets segment\nStrong architectural and integration experience\nExperience in large-scale, multi-squad delivery environments\nKnowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework\nKnowledge & Experience in the API & Microservices\nKnowledge & Experience in J2EE and good understanding of OOA and OOP\nKnowledge & Experience in Integration technologies - MQ, Kafka, Solace\nKnowledge & Experience in Container platform and Cloud technologies\nKnowledge & Experience in DevOps & SRE\nExperiences with relational databases and NOSQL databases\nProven experience in solution management, business development, or a related field\nStrong understanding of the software development life cycle and experience with agile methodologies\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and partners\nStrong project management skills and experience leading cross-functional teams\nStrong problem-solving and analytical skills\nStrong understanding of technology and the ability to learn new technologies quickly\nGraduation or Post-Graduation in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent\nNo Specific Certification is required, but a wide range of cloud, architecture certifications and trainings are expected\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. 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