Software and applications manager

Job ID: 30122

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 7 Aug 2025

Software & Application manager responsible to lead the design, development, and operational management of front office trade booking platform. Strong technical acumen, people management capabilities, and end-to-end ownership of application. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure design and architecture alignment, drive platform resilience and innovation and lead a high performing team within regulated business critical domain. Collaborate with business and product owners for project forecasting and planning, overseeing platform integration and aligning with strategic tech stacks. The role involves active collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Architects, Security leaders, and stakeholders, to deliver scalable, secure, performance and innovative technology solutions.

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirement, translate them into technical designs and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
  
• Drive delivery of platform enhancements, regulatory compliance, and automation to meet business KPIs.
  
• Responsible to drive end-to-end delivery of change projects with Agile delivery methodology.
  
• Work with stakeholders to develop innovative solutions underpinned by excellent tech which automates processes enabling volumes to be scaled up with ease.
  
• Lead and drive change management, able to take calculated risks and seeks continuous improvement.
  
• Effectively manage, collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
• Embed the highest standards of Group 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.
  

• Lead full application lifecycle including development, testing, release, monitoring, and support.
  
• Implement and refine CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
  
• Simplify current code and onboard latest tech stack
  
• Ensure production readiness, issue response, and RCA tracking for application
  
• Maintain documentation, runbook, and architectural diagram for key system
  
• Review penetration & performance test, restoration, DR & BCP plans with prod support and quality assurance teams.
  
• Design and present architecture flows and get security and compliance approvals for enhancements and new project from global architect team.
  
• Continuously improve processes by identifying inefficiencies, recommending enhancements, and implementing mechanisms for proactive issue resolution
  

• Lead by example and build the appropriate culture and values.
  
• Mange and mentor team of engineers, drive performance, technical upskilling, cross-skilling, and career growth
  
• Drive recruitment, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.
  
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  

Proactively manages project or initiative risks and looks for mitigating solutions or escalates as required.

• Ensure solutions meet IT risk, audit, and compliance standards
  
• Ensure cyber security guidelines are followed and any vulnerabilities are remediated proactively.
  
• Engage teams and cascade necessary updates to required Delegates.
  
• Liaise with the various stakeholders for status updates and determine milestones and agree on plan of action
  

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group�s Values and Code of Conduct.
  
• Embed 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.
  
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  

Securities & Fixed Income Operations teams, SCB’s Repo Desks, FM Technology teams

• 18 years of development experience in C++
  
• Strong technical understanding of Object-Oriented Design
  
• Good experience on development on UNIX/Linux and Shell scripting
  
• Good understanding of SQL with Oracle and Postgres
  
• Good understanding of Python and Java
  
• Experience in liaising directly with senior business stakeholders
  
• Experience in Agile methodology & Scrum Practices
  
• Code review & Quality Assurance
  
• Incident and change management
  
• People Management
  
• Experience in coordinating with cross-functional teams spread across various geographical locations
  
• Strong communication skills, good organisation skills, an attention to detail and an enquiring mind are essential
  
• Managed Audit/IT risk, RCA, vendor risk assessments, vulnerability management
  
• Knowledge of FIX, JSON, SWIFT message handling
  
• Exposure to Azure CI/CD pipelines setup, test automation and monitoring
  
• Software Architecture, Design & Integration
  
• Risk & Compliance Governance
  
• Application Management & Support
  
• REST API/ gRPC
  

Bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineerin

• 18 years of experience in designing and developing front office global real-time technology applications.
  
• Expert in C++, Python, Java, Data Structures & Algorithms, Object Oriented Designs, Unix, Perl/Shell Scripting
  
• Deep understanding of database management systems, Oracle & Postgres
  
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and test automation pipelines
  
• Strong coding, debugging, profiling, testing and documentation skills
  
• Technical Architect with proven records of owning end-to-end project delivery lifecycle.
  
• Dev chapter lead performing code reviews, scope definition, solution design, impact analysis, root cause analysis, performance tuning.
  
• Application owner managing IT risks, Audits, Cybersecurity, Vulnerability, Obsolescence, Capacity Planning, L3 support, production stability.
  
• Squad Lead, expert in Agile methodologies, scrum of scrum, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, effort estimation, delivery planning and retrospectives.
  
• Vendor management skills and toolkit-based development experience
  
• Engage in requirements discussion, design, development, UAT, release, monitoring, and support. Adept at translating business needs into clear, testable requirements and leading rollout activities including UAT, UVT, and post go-live support.
  
• Experience with modern monitoring/observability tools Grafana, ELK, Prometheus
  
• Proficient in Data Science & Machine Learning, Gen-AI APIs
  
• Business knowledge of Securities finance, trade lifecycle management, settlement processing, reporting and recon, understanding of regulatory frameworks (e.g. SFTR, CSDR)
  
• Expertise in FIX, JSON, SWIFT and Financial Market data integration with Bloomberg, Reuters APIs
  

• Extensive experience in People management across geographies, hiring, mentoring, training, cross-skilling engineers.
  
• International exposure and excellent spoken and written English adept in communicating with senior and global stakeholders.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration across lines of business and technology
  
• Ability to own delivering outcomes across a very vast and complex range of platform and product teams, including working with multiple cross-functional teams - infra, ICS, PSS
  
• Highly disciplined and structured with an outcome oriented and logical mindset and approach
  
• Able to work independently and also as part of a team
  

• Strong analytical skills, interpersonal and communication skills.
  
• Able to deal with ambiguity and communicate accordingly to a senior audience
  

• Please note that the job description above will be reviewed during the Job Objective setting every year, which may be amended and agreed where necessary by the employee and the line manager.
  

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
  

• 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.
  

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