The Role Responsibilities
Drive architectural thinking and engagement with agile squads and align architecture plans and solution design with business objectives
Work extensively with agile pods to drive containerization, cloud and digitalisation strategies
Develop and maintain solution architecture road maps for credit origination
Articulate key elements of proposed solutions for the system including upstream/downstream and surrounding system impacts
Present solution architecture and designs including its benefits and drawbacks to senior stakeholders
Assess proposed solutions for appropriateness and adherence to architecture principles and roadmap
Work with internal and external technology partners to assess scope of technology changes needed for new projects and devise solution architecture options
Provide cost-effective solution options for business requirements in line with architecture principles
Maintain comprehensive documentation and best practice for systems and interfaces
Present solution designs to technology governance committees as part of the project approval process
Strategy
Drive architectural thinking and engagement with agile squads and align architecture plans and solution design with business objectives
Processes
Present solution designs to technology governance committees as part of the project approval process
Risk Management
Provide cost-effective solution options for business requirements in line with architecture principles
Governance
Assess proposed solutions for appropriateness and adherence to architecture principles and roadmap
Key stakeholders
Product Owners
Domain Architect
Our Ideal Candidate
10 years experience in data architecture
Education: Bachelor’s in engineering or equivalent
Java/ J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Java/ J2EE, Spring
Cloud Solutions – OpenShift or Azure
Web services, API design
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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