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Job Summary

The "Chapter Lead, Full Stack Engineering - JavaSpring, WRB Tech" role is a hands-on developer role focusing back-end as well as front-end development, and is accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members. Responsibilities in detail are:

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain exemplary coding standards within the team, contributing to code base development and code repository management.

• Perform code reviews to guarantee quality and promote a culture of technical excellence in Java development.

• 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.

• Maintain a dual focus on leadership and hands-on development, committing code while steering the chapter's technical direction.

• Oversee Java backend development standards within the chapter across squads, ensuring uniform excellence and adherence to best coding practices.

• Harmonize Java development methodologies across the squad, guiding the integration of innovative practices that align with the bank's engineering strategies.

• Advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge Java technologies and frameworks, driving the evolution of backend practices to meet future challenges.

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.

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

• Act as a custodian for Java backend expertise, providing strategic leadership to enhance skill sets and ensure the delivery of high-performance banking solutions

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 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.

• Collaborate with product owners and other tech leads to ensure applications meet functional requirements and strategic objectives

Processes





• Promote a feedback-rich environment, utilizing internal and external insights to continuously improve chapter operations.

• 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.

• Design and uphold a robust risk management plan, with contingencies for succession and role continuity, especially in critical positions.

Governance

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

Key Stakeholders

• Chapter Area Lead

📌 VP, CL, Full Stack Engineering, WRB Tech (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Bengaluru