Assoc, FrontEnd Eng - Android, WRB Tech

Job Summary

There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking. Increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.

The Wealth, Retail Banking (WRB) is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with Dev Ops and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency. Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.

Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the Dev Ops pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization;

this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.

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Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Mobile Android Developer
As an Android Engineer you will focus on product development, work with your squad to finalize end to end solution and deliver the product to the Bank’s digital channels. You will be part of the team that constantly analyse and improve the digital channel platform from a technical point of view as well as from user experience view. You will need to keep yourself updated with the latest software technologies and share the knowledge with your team.

The team is responsible for building user-centric native and web-based digital banking applications for use by both internal Bank’s staff and external Bank’s customers around the world. You will be working with highly skilled engineers on Android, Responsive front-end web platforms, and get to work in modern software development environments and practices. As part of the digital channels team, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the evolving technical direction of the team as we adapt to this rapidly changing space.

The successful candidate is responsible developing a new generation of Digital Banking to promote a better user experience to clients. The individual is going to be part of agile team developing world class leading mobile banking. Expect to be challenged in your adaptability and ability to think out of box and use creative idea to resolve kinds of complex, real world programming challenges.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices, Material Design
• Optimize mobile applications and user experience on the android platforms
• Gather requirements, design, develop, deploy and support applications
• Work closely with Product Owner and squad to deliver user-centric solutions for internal and external customers
• Promote adoption and rollout of Agile and modern software engineering practices
• Promote and practice innovative software engineering practices and architecture design
• Co-ordinate with development/interfacing teams and create a delivery pipeline across multiple streams
• Ensure risks, issues and schedules are appropriately managed following agile principles.
• Collaborate with core Dev Ops and Testing teams to build and enhance a continuous delivery pipeline
• Adapt to changes in priorities and requirements

• Hands on experience on Native android application development (Kotlin, Java, jetpack compose)
• Expert on APP project building with Gradle
• Strong experience with mobile hybrid architecture, Web View and JS bridge
• Good knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and build responsive APP
• Well versed in Dev Ops (ADO), google play & Huawei App Gallery APP delivery
• Familiarity with APIs to connect Android applications to…