Assoc, FrontEnd Eng - Android, WRB Tech

Job Summary There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking. Increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers. The Wealth, Retail Banking (WRB) is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency. Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda. Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.

Key Responsibilities Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

• Mobile Android Developer
• As an Android Engineer you will focus on product development, work with your squad to finalize end to end solution and deliver the product to the Bank’s digital channels. You will be part of the team that constantly analyse and improve the digital channel platform from a technical point of view as well as from user experience view. You will need to keep yourself updated with the latest software technologies and share the knowledge with your team.
• The team is responsible for building user-centric native and web-based digital banking applications for use by both internal Bank’s staff and external Bank’s customers around the world. You will be working with highly skilled engineers on Android, Responsive front-end web platforms, and get to work in modern software development environments and practices. As part of the digital channels team, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the evolving technical direction of the team as we adapt to this rapidly changing space. The successful candidate is responsible developing a new generation of Digital Banking to promote a better user experience to clients. The individual is going to be part of agile team developing world class leading mobile banking. Expect to be challenged in your adaptability and ability to think out of box and use creative idea to resolve kinds of complex, real world programming challenges.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices, Material Design
• Optimize mobile applications and user experience on the android platforms
• Gather requirements, design, develop, deploy and support applications
• Work closely with Product Owner and squad to deliver user-centric solutions for internal and external customers
• Promote adoption and rollout of Agile and modern software engineering practices
• Promote and practice innovative software engineering practices and architecture design
• Co-ordinate with development/interfacing teams and create a delivery pipeline across multiple streams
• Ensure risks, issues and schedules are appropriately managed following agile principles.
• Collaborate with core DevOps and Testing teams to build and enhance a continuous delivery pipeline
• Adapt to changes in priorities and requirements

Processes

• Have good sense on IT development process, manage delivery quality, collaborate with peers & cross different department colleague, delivery management.

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.

Skills And Experience

• Hands on experience on Native android application development (Kotlin, Java, jetpack compose)
• Expert on APP project building with Gradle
• Strong experience with mobile hybrid architecture, WebView and JS bridge
• Good knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and build responsive APP
• Well versed in DevOps (ADO), google play & Huawei AppGallery APP delivery
• Familiarity with APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design, unit testing and UI testing techniques, design patten and modularization
• Good knowledge of mobile runtime security (Pen Test)
• Experience in Web development with JS/TS(>=ES6), with one of framework ReactJS/AugularJS/Vue, expert on the HTML5&CSS
• Kotlin / Jetpack Compose / Java
• Android Platform
• JS / TypeScript / ReactJS / Angular / Vue
• HTML5/CSS
• Automation Testing / Unit Testing tools
• CI/CD
• Crashlytics

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer sciences or Software engineering with 5 years of relevant experiences, preferably within an international technology organization in delivering complex projects
• Experienced responsive application development, system architecture, technical design and delivery and other programming languages (Java, Kotlin, H5, JS, CSS, ES6) on H5 web
• Full software development lifecycle experience
• Front end framework (at least of React, Angular, Vue)
• DevOps toolchain experience (ADO, GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vx, Ansible, Shell Script, fastlane)
• TDD, BDD, performance and Security testing for mobile and web
• Build automation tools (webpack, Vite)
• Good written and verbal communication skills in 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.