Lead, Development

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Annual leave and flexible working options

Wellbeing support programs

Continuous learning opportunities

Job summary

Standard Chartered in Kuala Lumpur seeks a key member of the Trade IT Development team, responsible for managing Agile Delivery teams and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software. The role demands strong experience in managing Agile teams, a sound understanding of microservices, and cloud-native application deployment. Candidates with 5-10 years of relevant banking or fintech experience are preferred. The position offers flexible working options and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance and retirement savings.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in banking/fintech.
• Experience in managing Agile Delivery Teams is mandatory.
• Ability to convert business requirements into solution designs.

Responsibilities

• Manage Agile Development teams ensuring delivery of high-quality software.
• Facilitate team member specialization and cooperation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across different locations.

Skills

Managing Agile Delivery Teams

Microservices Architecture

Cloud-native Deployments

Troubleshooting Skills

Judgment and Pragmatism

Tools

Docker

Java

Spring Boot

Jira

Git

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Spl'st, Development will be a key member of Trade IT Development team and responsible for managing Agile Development teams and ensuring delivery of high-quality software that meets functional and non-functional requirements. The role holder will form a key part of a fast‑paced, ambitious delivery programme.

Software Delivery

• Represent the team to management and management to the team
• Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy, refined Product Backlog for the team
• Responsible for teaching and coaching Scrum values and practices
• Ensure adherence to delivery schedules and attendance at Daily Stand‑up meetings
• Remove roadblocks and obstacles where the team is not able to do so
• Assist the Product Owner in shielding the team from external interferences
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
• Facilitate team member specialization and generalization of tasks
• Schedule Sprint Reviews at the end of each sprint with the Product Owner
• Schedule and facilitate Sprint and Release Planning meetings
• Primarily a facilitative, servant leader and a Scrum process coach
• Monitor Sprint tasks to ensure success but does not create or assign tasks (the team creates and assigns tasks)
• Regularly and physically meets with the team members

Mandatory Skills

• Experience in managing Agile Delivery Teams
• Latest technology architectures and design—Microservices, Web, and Mobile applications
• Cloud‑native application deployments and containers (Docker)
• Exceptional troubleshooting and investigative skills, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Ability to manage competing priorities from a variety of stakeholders
• Must demonstrate good judgment and a pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimises architecture activities across company needs, business constraints, and technological realities
• Familiar with SDLC and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs
• Knowledge of web‑based systems architecture, microservice‑based architecture, enterprise application architecture, and experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
• Agile project methodologies

Optional Skills

• Experience in event‑driven architectures (CQRS, SAGA patterns)
• Build tools: Gulp, webpack, Jenkins, Docker, Automation, Bash, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Technical Proficiency

• Microservices development using Spring Boot
• Technical stack: Java, Spring, Spring Cloud, Mongo & Oracle or Postgres databases, Elasticsearch, Hazelcast, Kafka, REST APIs, JSON/YML
• Technical tools: Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket or Git, CI/CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA

Prior Experience

• Relevant experience of 5‑10 years, with mandatory banking/fintech experience; trade finance domain experience preferred.

Adherence To Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements

• Continuous management of the Trade Application System risks
• Proactively identify issues and actions
• Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
• Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design

Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with resources and teams across different locations

Key Stakeholders

• Operations (Group, Regional, Country and Hubs)
• Business – Product/Sales/Segments (Group, Regional, Country)
• Technology – Delivery Teams and Technical Architecture
• Hive Leads
• Chapter Leads
• Trade Technology Team
• Interface IT Teams
• Technology Services Teams

What We Offer

• 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.