Sr. Manager, Dev Ops

Job Summary

Standard Chartered is a leading international bank operating in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our successful and sustainable business is built on doing tangible, long term good for our people, our customers and the communities we serve.

Financial Markets eTrading has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive product roadmap. The FM eTrading system developments team is a specialist team responsible for the design and development of proprietary set of systems that will differentiate the bank in its core markets. eTrading systems are aimed at numerous customer markets including external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms.

This role will join the DevOps sub-team. The role will be primarily focussed on new DevOps stack in setting up end to end CI / CD pipelines along with future on-boardings onto AWS Cloud.

Key Responsibilities

To join the Standard Chartered Bank eTrading Solutions Delivery team, working in the DevOps sub-team responsible for setting up and administer AWS Cloud, continuous integration development tools for source control, continuous integration, automated build and release tools ( CI/CD ).

Strategy

• An experienced DevOps Engineer who can work on the automations / pipeline setups / Infra setups individually and guide QA team on the testing automations onto pipelines.
• Experienced in setting up and maintaining JIRA and Confluence tools to facilitate effective Agile Project Management.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines on both Cloud platforms and on-premises platforms.
• Experienced in proving clear and concise status updates
• Experienced in the delivery of complex software delivery projects in an agile environment

Processes

• Experience and knowledge of change management principles and methodologies
• Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
• Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated with a focus on client and customer service
• Very strong interpersonal skills including facilitation and coaching and able to lead and influence others
• Committed to the development of all team members and continuous improvement of the Agile
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Experience facilitating workshops / discussions.

People and Talent

• Proven ability to work within a team environment.
• Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
• Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and time management.

Risk Management

• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner
• Timely escalation of risks and issues and escalating to management at the earliest opportunity to ensure items are resolved in a timely manner

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.
• Understanding Local regulatory/compliance landscape and working with transaction banking to understand end-to-end capabilities that can be supported

Key Stakeholders

• Product Owner of FXSCALE, Product Owner of external systems, SCALE Tech team, PSS, change management and Infra teams

Skills and Experience

Must have skills

• Strong Scripting knowledge - Linux (bash/python), groovy
• DevOps Tooling exposure - Jenkins, JIRA, CICD pipelines, Artifactory, Nexus etc
• Containerization tools - Docker, Podman, OpenShift, K8s
• Configuration Management - Ansible
• Environment management exposure
• General Enterprise Technical Aptitude: networks, servers, load balancing, storage, etc
• Source Control tools - GIT/SVN etc
• Cloud - AWS/Azure

Good to have skills

• Release Management approach/tools
• Knowledge on Oracle Database management
• Unix administration

Soft skills:

• Confident and articulate communicator, a self-starter
• Able to problem-solve at a deep level; determine the root cause of issues and design, plan, and deliver long-term strategic solutions
• Domain expertise, if any - Banking / Financial markets (Nice to have)

Qualifications

Candidate Requirements

Educational Level

• Master or bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics or related fields
• Business English (verbal and written)

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.