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roadmap in collaboration with the Domain 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 Hive Leads.\nCollaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.\nCommunicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.\nBusiness\nSupport business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.\nPerform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications.\nDeliver solution intent (SI) and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.\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.\nTechnical Leadership\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.\nProcesses\nRegularly reviews squad metrics in regard to 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.\nVendor Management\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.\nGovernance\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.\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.\nIdentify Applicable Security controls by engaging with Security Champs\nReview and approve the chapter 1, 2 & 3 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.\nComply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production.\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.\nRegulatory & Business Conduct\nDisplay exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of 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This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.\nEffectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.\nSkills and Experience\nAPI & Microservices\nContainer Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)\nDatabase Technologies (SQL, NoSQL)\nIntegration Technologies\nAgile Methodologies, Lean Framework\nDevOps Engineering\nQualifications\nGraduation or Post-Graduation in Computer Science Engineering\nExperience in the software development using Agile methodologies\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\nMore than 10+ years’ experience in software development domain\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\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOur 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.\nTogether we:\nDo the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do\nNever settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well\nAre better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term\nWhat we offer\nIn line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.\nCore bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.\n 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.\nFlexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.\nProactive 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\nA continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.\n Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - 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