CL, Front End Engineering - React, WRB Tech

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Job Summary

The "Chapter Lead - Chapter Lead, Front End Engineering - React, WRB Tech" role is a hands-on developer role focusing on front-end development, and is accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter member

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is around capability building, it is not to own applications or delivery

Lead and mentor the Front-End React Chapter, promoting a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.

Translate designs into high-quality code, ensuring responsive and accessible user interfaces that adhere to the latest web standards.

Strategically evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks that enhance front-end capabilities and drive the chapter's technical roadmap.

Collaborate effectively with designers, backend developers, product owners, to understand the requirements and provide input & lead the hands-on development of the UI / UX design

Work with Product Owners to effectively allocate chapter members across different delivery squads (i.e. manage the resource demand management)

Continuously evaluate and improve frontend development processes, tools and workflows to increase efficiency and productivity, and quality of deliverables.

Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership to front end developers helping them to solve complex problems, improve their skills and adopt best practices in front end development.

Regularly conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and alignment with architectural guidelines. Provide constructive feedback to chapter members to help them improve their technical coding skills

Maintain exemplary front-end coding standards within the team, contributing actively to the code base development and code repository management.

Function as a technical leader and active coder, setting and enforcing domain-specific best practices and technology standards.

Allocate technical resources and personal coding time effectively, balancing leadership with hands-on development tasks.

Actively shapes and drives towards the Bank-Wide engineering strategy and programmes to uplift standards and steer the technological direction towards excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices and provide technical assistance to the members of their Chapter.

Responsible for the quality of the code repository where applicable.

Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.

Prioritises and makes available capacity for technical debt.

This role is around capability building, it is not to own applications or delivery.

Business

Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).

Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.

Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.

Processes

Adopt and embed the Change Delivery Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.

Ensure role, job descriptions and expectations are clearly set and periodic feedback provided to the entire team.

Follows the chapter operating model to ensure a system exists to continue to build capability and performance of the chapter.

Chapter Lead may vary based upon the specific chapter domain its leading.

People & Talent

Accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members.

Reviews metrics on capabilities and performance across their area, has improvement backlog for their Chapters and drives continual improvement of their chapter.

Focuses on the development of people and capabilities as the highest priority.

Risk Management

Responsible for effective capacity risk management across the Chapter with regards to attrition and leave plans.

Ensures the chapter follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their chapter domain.

Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain.

Skills and Experience

React Technologies

Technical Leadership

CI / CD

Agile Methodologies

Javascript ES6

HTML5 / CSS / DOM

Network fundamentals

Security fundamentals

Other Responsibilities

Champion the company's broader mission and values, integrating them into daily operations and team ethos.

Undertake additional responsibilities as necessary, ensuring they contribute to the organisation's strategic aims and adhere to Group and other Relevant policies.

Qualifications

Requirements & Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

8+10 years experience in working with React and other frontend technologies out of which a min of 4+ years in hands on leadership role

Proven experience as a front end developer or web developer, with a strong portfolio showcasing past projects.

Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, with a deep understanding of DOM manipulation and web standards.

Experience with React.

Familiarity with responsive design principles and techniques for building mobile-friendly web applications.

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Contributions to open-source projects or participation in developer communities is a plus.

Strong version control skills using tools like Git, with a commitment to maintaining high standards of code quality through reviews and automated tests.

Exceptional communication and team-building skills, with the capacity to mentor developers, facilitate technical skill growth, and align team efforts with strategic objectives.

Ability to lead in dynamic, iterative development environments.

Other tools / toolkit requirements

Mastery of JavaScript ES6+ and TypeScript, with a strong grasp of React's ecosystem, including hooks, context, and functional components.

Demonstrated experience in translating complex designs into responsive, accessible React applications, ensuring fidelity to UX / UI principles.

Proficient in advanced state management libraries and patterns, enabling optimal performance and maintainability of stateful logic in React apps.

Adept at leveraging CSS pre-processor and CSS-in-JS for styled React components, ensuring consistent and scalable styling across applications.

Familiarity with front-end build tools such as Webpack, and adept at optimising build processes for efficiency and speed.

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.