Standard Chartered Looking for Solution Architect at Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Standard Chartered; Chennai; On-site; INR 20,00,000 - 35,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking institution is seeking a seasoned lead developer with over 12 years of experience in the financial sector. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in API and microservices architecture, with knowledge of Azure and AWS services. This position requires hands-on delivery, technical understanding, and strong problem-solving skills. Join a team that values diversity and offers a competitive salary and benefits in Chennai, India.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning opportunities

Time-off benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in financial domain as an architect or lead developer.
• Experience with Risk and/or Finance projects.
• Good understanding of API and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Understand technical and business requirements to create architectural designs.
• Hands-on delivery and coding when needed.
• Design and develop common services and frameworks.

Skills

API

Microservices architecture

Azure services

AWS services

Database

Python

Java

Job description

Job: Technology

Primary Location: Asia-India-Chennai

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Permanent

Posting Date: 22/Mar/2022, 2:10:56 AM

Unposting Date: Ongoing

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 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.

The Role Responsibilities

A minimum of 12 years of experience in financial domain, as an architect or lead developer with exposure to Risk and / or Finance project and appreciation of general banking products. An ideal candidate should have architecture background with execution background.

Work very closely with customers on understanding technical and business requirements and coming up with architectural design to satisfy their needs.

Doing hands-on delivery and coding whenever needed

Good understanding of API, microservices architecture. Design with Rest or GraphQL.

Solid understanding of the development process pipeline, effective code version control & continuous Integration, Deployment.

Working knowledge in various database and storage technologies such as Postgres, S3

Excellent problem-solving abilities and judgment with strong attention to detail

Good knowledge on data pipelines and spark architecture.

Good knowledgeexposure to public cloud services on Azure/AWS

Design and develop common service and framework

Our Ideal Candidate

APImicroservices architecture

AzureAWS services

Database

Python

Java

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