Job Summary

A Chapter Lead – Backend leads a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in designing and building back-end solutions. The role ensures high code quality, mentors team members, and drives best practices, while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable applications.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery in Java backend components
• Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner, Hive Tech Lead & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and cutting-edge 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.

Governance

• Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., SCB

📌 Sr. Assoc, CL, BackEnd Eng, WRB Tech (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered India
📍 Bengaluru