Director, Engineering Lead, WRB Tech

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The role is responsible for managing the technical delivery, working with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics, and releases.

Job Summary

An experienced skilled technology expert who manages the technical delivery, works with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics, and releases.

Responsibilities Strategy

• Develop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Domain Tech Lead.
• Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture, and enterprise technology standards.
• Execute the Hive’s product vision with the Hive Leads.
• Collaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.
• Communicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.

Business

• Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
• Perform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications.
• Deliver solution intent (SI) and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.
• Collaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.
• Proactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.
• Develop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.

Technical Leadership

• Influence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.
• Incorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.
• Align detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture, and product/platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards.
• Support the squad in clearly slicing the backlog into independently shippable experiences for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.
• Identify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.
• Accountable 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.
• Responsible 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.
• Lead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.
• Act as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.
• Drive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable, and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments.

Processes

• Regularly review squad metrics in regard to Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment, and support the team to better value delivery.
• Work with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship, and drive solution standardization and service reusability.

People & Talent

• Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives.

Vendor Management

• Collaborate with vendors to integrate vendor deliverables with internal systems and resolve any issues impacting delivery.
• Drive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.

Governance

• Oversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable.
• Design APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards.
• Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.
• Present Solutions to the architecture review forum.
• Align with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.
• Align technical solutions and the applications with established security control requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to avoid potential penalties.
• Collaborate 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.
• Review and approve the chapter 1, 2 & 3 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.
• Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production.
• Complete comprehensive security impact assessments to ensure compliance with governance requirements and mitigate potential risks.
• Ensure compliance with bank compliance guidelines & standards (e.g., data protection), address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principle.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years’ experience in software development domain.
• Experience in software development using Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge & Experience in practicing Agile & Lean framework.
• Knowledge & Experience in API & Microservices.
• Knowledge & Experience in J2EE and good understanding of OOA and OOP.
• Knowledge & Experience in Integration technologies – MQ, Kafka, Solace.
• Knowledge / Experience in Container platform and Cloud technologies.
• Knowledge / Experience in DevOps & SRE.
• Experiences with relational databases and NOSQL databases.
• Graduation or Post-Graduation in Computer Science Engineering.
• Proven experience in solution management, business development, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and experience with agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and partners.
• Strong project management skills and experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of technology and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• API & Microservices.
• Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Database Technologies (SQL, NoSQL).
• Integration Technologies.
• Agile Methodologies, Lean Framework.
• DevOps Engineering.

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