CL, FrontEnd Eng - Android, WRB Tech

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JOB SUMMARY

RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

Design and develop advanced Android applications for smartphones and tablets, from concept to deployment.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, scope, and objectives.

Translate design specifications and wireframes into high-quality code, ensuring compatibility across multiple devices and screen sizes.

Implement best practices for mobile application development, including code optimization, performance tuning, security and memory management.

Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, following coding standards and architectural principles.

Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior team members to ensure code quality and consistency.

Optimize application performance, reliability, and security through continuous testing, debugging, and refactoring.

Stay updated on the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in Android development, sharing knowledge and insights with the team.

Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate mobile applications with server-side APIs and services.

Support the app release process, including beta testing, app store submissions, and version control.

Strategy

Build and foster a design engineering excellence culture through leadership and direction.

Thought Leadership, evangelism, on the competitive landscape and market trends to make informed product decisions.

Keep the long-term vision of the product in mind while addressing short-term goals and milestones. Continuously evaluate the app's performance and user engagement metrics to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

Develop apps with scalability and performance in mind. Anticipate future growth and ensure that the app architecture and codebase can accommodate it

Build an engineering and system thinking mindset with values such as fast feedback, repeatability, simplicity, and clean code.

Drive a modern approach to engineering excellence, ensuring fast, frequent, and high-quality value delivery.

Empower the engineers within the subdomain with the right tools and practice to improve SDLC process efficiency - with focus on quality assurance, developer experiences, automation, and performance engineering, with speed, scalability, and stability in mind.

Enforce and streamline sound development practices.

Establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice, and support, to assure the classic pay product is developed, implemented, and maintained aligning with the Group's standards

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.

Trusted advisor to the business. Work hand in hand with the Business, taking product programs from investment decisions, into design, specification, and solution phases, all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams.

Provide leadership and technical expertise for the subdomain to achieve goals and outcomes

Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities, bid teams, monitoring of usage, improving client experience, and collecting defects for future improvements.

Manage business partner expectations. Ensure delivery to business meeting time, cost and with high quality

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.

Define standards to ensure that applications are designed with scale, resilience and performance in mind

Enforce and streamline sound development practices and establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice and support, to assure the platforms are developed, implemented and maintained aligning with the Group's standards

Responsible for overall governance of the subdomain that includes financial management, risk management, representation in steering committee reviews and engagement with business for strategy, change management and timely course correction as required

Ensure compliance to the highest standards of business conduct, regulatory requirements and practices defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering stipulations

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.

Ensure that the organisation works in a proactive way to upgrade capacity well in advance and predict future capacity needs

Responsible for building an engineering culture where application and infrastructure scalability is paramount for on-going capacity management with an aim to reduce the need for capacity reviews using monitoring and auto-scale properties

Empower the engineers so that they can provide economy of scale focused on delivering value, speed to market, availability, monitoring & system management

Foster a culture of innovation, transparency, and accountability end to end in the subdomain while promoting a "business-first" mentality at all levels

Develop and maintain a plan that provides for succession and continuity in the most critical delivery and management position

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.

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

Ensure that the organisation works in a proactive way to upgrade capacity well in advance and predict future capacity needs

Responsible for building an engineering culture where application and infrastructure scalability is paramount for on-going capacity management with an aim to reduce the need for capacity reviews using monitoring and auto-scale properties

Empower the engineers so that they can provide economy of scale focused on delivering value, speed to market, availability, monitoring & system management

Foster a culture of innovation, transparency, and accountability end to end in the subdomain while promoting a "business-first" mentality at all levels

Develop and maintain a plan that provides for succession and continuity in the most critical delivery and management positio

Regulatory & Governance

Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., SCB Governance Standards, ESDLC etc.).

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.

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for Good and Group's brand and values in the digital sales / commerce team

Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Qualification

Requirements & Skills

Experience in global diverse organisation in building overall capability and technical expertise for last 6+ years

Leads min of few tasks for 1-2 initiatives in the Hive

Working towards becoming app Android SME

Experience in industry bench marking for technical skills

Overall experience of 6+ years and has done agile people leader roles in the past

Ability to articulate the overall vision for the Chapters and ensure upskilling of the organisation holistically

Experience in identifying skill gaps and mitigate risks to deliverables

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

10+ years of experience in Android development, with a strong portfolio of Android applications.

Proficiency in Java and / or Kotlin programming languages, with a deep understanding of Android SDK, APIs, and frameworks.

Experience with Android Studio, Git, and other development tools.

Strong understanding of mobile app architecture, design patterns (e.g., MVP, MVVM), and best practices.

Knowledge of UI / UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and intuitive interfaces.

Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and other web technologies for data exchange.

Solid understanding of mobile app performance optimization techniques and tools.

Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently or in a team environment.

[Optional] Experience with cross-platform development frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter) is a plus.

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

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Programming & Scripting

OS

Network Fundamentals

Security Fundamentals

Database Development

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.