Standard Chartered Hiring for Spl’st, Sftwre Deliv&Release at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

JOB SUMMARY

As a Release Train Engineer / Release Manager in CC T&I within the Product Enablement portfolio, you will work across the teams to help run the platform release trains from 3 aspects below. We are looking for ownership and driver to pull thing together form across the group using agile techniques, holistic thinking and planning, and collaborative approach, as well as a technologist that can push the automation and devops solutions and frameworks forward at the same time.

Compliance – Keeping all teams and platforms compliant with Governance, policies and release rules

Facilitating & Helping – Help the clusters and squads plan releases, board on the release trains in a timely manner, work through the release train process and changes and supervise the release to production

Improvements in the processes, tooling and standards from both bank driven changes and team driven changes.

We are looking for talented individuals who are passionate about agile, continuous improvement, technology, and the customer experience. If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we’d love to hear from you:

Experience of end-to-end successful implementations of large-scale releases in a bank or a financial institution from a Project/Release perspective.

Detail knowledge of software development lifecycle with understanding of associated applications, down-streams/up-streams, products, process, and risks.

Release planning, execution and hands-on experience of issues related to releases.

Strong stakeholder management skills with status and RAID communication.

Strong Agile/scrum/SAFe team experience

Agile Evangelist and a master of the Agile Scrum method and concepts

Various framework scaled Agile experience and relevant industry certifications are another advantage (LeSS, SAFe, SoS, etc)

Demonstrated ability create transparency and monitor effectiveness around good agile and engineering practices through squad data driven analysis and conversations – moving teams towards self-management and ownership of work

Adaptive to changing situations and enjoy collaborating with global teams in a diverse multi-cultural environment

Passionate for solving challenging problems and learning new skills

Enjoys wearing different hats of Teacher, Mentor, Coach & Technologist

Good understanding on Release Management, DevOps, Engineering Practices, Quality & Test strategies

Knowledge and/or experience with various successful Agile techniques: Kanban, User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, XP, Agile Games

Scrum Master experience in delivering software strongly perfered

Previous experience working with Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) approaches (e.g. Release engineering, Observability, Error budgets, etc) and/or DevOps or Automation focused teams will be highly valued

Excellent communication, stakeholder management and negotiation skills

Highly self-motivated and able to work well under pressure to manage competing demands, complex situations, people and technology

Knowledge of Banking ecosystems – preferably in Risk or Corporate & Institutional Clients domain with understanding of associated applications, complex systems interfaces, products, process, and Risk regulatory framework/models/reporting

Previous experience as a Technical/Team Lead advantageous

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant disciplines

If you’re a bright mind with big ambitions, we’ll actively encourage you to fulfil your potential. Thanks to our rich and varied international footprint, we can offer exciting opportunities working across different countries and cultures. Apply Now and take the next step in fulfilling your potential.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Awareness and understanding of the CCIB & T&I Transformation Strategy and how it and our teams are measured, which includes coaching stakeholders when needed on the why’s and how of various agile approaches and techniques

Business

Aware of impact on the business users and our clients that are product is built for – focus should be creating value quickly, however safely, sustainably so it scales.

Understand the interest of all the stakeholders. Engage effectively and communicate efficiently. Keep Business updated with relevant information for all releases & manage their expectation effectively.

Processes

Manage releases of the applications in the domain end-to-end. For all releases, identifies risks and issues early and communicates on timely manner. To ensure release dependencies involving multiple business and technology teams are communicated, tracked and resolved efficiently.

Performs Release Planning & Tracking. Follows Release Process Governance, Process and Standards using Risk, Issue, Dependencies and Assumption framework.

Follow and complete release process including pre-release and post-release process requirements. Ensure all relevant technology release processes are followed.

Practitioner of Agile principles and particularly Scrum and Kanban methods and concepts as well as various Scaled Agile frameworks (SoS, SAFe, LeSS, etc) are preferred

In dept understanding on DevOps, Engineering Practices, Quality & Test strategies

Knowledge and/or experience with various successful Agile techniques: Visual Management, User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, XP, Agile Games

People & Talent

Adaptive to changing situations and enjoy collaborating with global teams in a diverse multi-cultural environment

Passionate for solving challenging problems and learning new skills

Enjoys wearing different hats of Teacher, Mentor, Coach & Technologist

Support the teams to get better and work through challenges

Excellent communication, stakeholder management and negotiation skills

Highly self-motivated and able to work well under pressure to manage competing demands, complex situations, people and technology

Risk Management

Scrum and Agile Delivery approaches to managing Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependences in conjunction with your stakeholders, teams and leaders

Governance

Scrum and Agile approaches to managing Product Governance in conjunction with your stakeholders and team

Own the governance of domain releases and help teams be compliant through pro-actively leadership

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.

Lead the Agile team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment

Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

Technology Leadership

Other Platform Delivery Teams within our portfolio and our integration partners

Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Users/User Groups

Production Support / Production Engineering teams and Service Management

Other Responsibilities

Be the Change – be an Improvement evangelist and Change champion with all levels of the organisation

QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master

Professional Scrum Master I/II and or other Scrum Role certification

Other relevant industry certifications are advantageous (LeSS, SAFe, SoS, Nexus, etc)

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant disciplines

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Project / Release Management / RAIDs

Stakeholder Management

Scrum / Scrum Master

Other Agile Techniques (Kanban, XP, etc)

Facilitation

Team and Individual Coaching

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe, LeSS, etc)

Modern Engineering and Test Approaches

Product Backlog Management

Release Management in Regulated Bank

Credit and Or Risk Business within a Banking Eco-System Knowledge & Experience

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.

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