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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 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.

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

Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of and adherence to local banking laws, anti-money laundering regulations, and other compliance mandates.
• Conduct business activities with a commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, fostering an environment of trust and respect.

Key stakeholders
• Chapter Area Lead
• Sub domain Tech leads
• Business Product Owner

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.

Skills and Experience





• A minimum of 8 years of professional Java development experience, including a proven record in backend system architecture and API design.
• At least 2 years in a leadership role managing diverse development teams and spearheading complex Java projects. Proficiency in a range of Java frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, and an understanding of Apache Struts.
• Exposure to UI performance, accessibility, and responsive design principles.
• Expertise in JVM internals, Garbage collection models, heap dump analysis, Java performance engineering
• Good knowledge on relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipeline deployment, containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Grasp of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for seamless integration with backend systems.
• 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 agile, iterative development environments.

Other Tools & Toolkit options
• Proficient in Java, with solid expertise in core concepts like object-oriented programming, data structures, and complex algorithms.
• Skilled in Java frameworks including Spring, Sp

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