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Spotlight Careers
Banking is our business and we TECH it seriously
Career opportunities for technologists in India
Employee stories
Meet our team
Praneeth Reddy Nagareddy from the Business Solution Squad, Financial Markets and Security Services (FSS) tells us what he does to relax & what a typical week looks like for him.
“I love working at Standard Chartered, I feel respected as an individual and have access to so many growth opportunities across the bank.”
Kamna Sharma from our Data Security Team tells us what it’s like to be responsible for protecting the bank from cyber attacks.
“Banking is evolving every day and I see cutting-edge technologies being used in banking.”
Career stories
Meet two of our women technology leaders
Sumi Mohan
Sumi talks about how we embrace an engineering culture and how we want every employee to be ready to learn and grow. In the last year Sumi has completed a Python course from Columbia University and an introductory course on Artificial Intelligence from INSEAD University. She’s proud to be part of an organisation that instils such a culture in the minds of our employees.
Meenakshi Iyer
Meenakshi started her career as a C, C++ application developer. She wrote code for high-volume, high-performing transaction processing systems. An engineer back then was an all-rounder. Now she’s a technology leader and transformation evangelist.
Proud to be recognised as a great place to work
We’re proud to be the winner of ‘’Excellence during crisis award’’ by NASSCOM India and are certified by the ‘Great Place to Work’ Institute for our high trust and performance culture.
Why join us
The digital revolution has transformed banking and financial services firms are increasingly defined by their ability to use technology to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
As a leading digital banking platform, we provide banking services, power global trade and commerce, and provide financial services to companies across 52 markets including some of the fastest-growing in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. We’re digitising our banking services by adopting the cloud-first principle for all new software developments and major enhancements, making banking easier for our clients.
Our Technology team is at the centre of our digital future, serving our clients digitally across the world. More than 17,000 technologists work together across our unique geographic footprint. Having diverse, collaborative teams, with varied ideas and cultures enables us to lead this change. As does our strong engineering culture, using agile methodologies, continuous delivery practices and improvement processes, we constantly strive to reduce product time-to-market and streamline our development.
Join our team if you enjoy tackling complex challenges and building creative solutions. To champion change, we need individuals who are able to see problems from different perspectives and create solutions that might otherwise go unnoticed, driving our client first approach.
Who we’re looking for
We’re inviting inquisitive, innovating, and enterprising minds to join us. You need to be passionate about technology and providing an outstanding customer experience.
We’re looking for people who:
- Are adaptive to changing situations and enjoy collaborating with global teams in a diverse multi-cultural environment
- Are curious and open-minded
- Are passionate problem solvers, with a true-engineering mindset
As part of our team, you’ll:
- Work as a Techno banker involved in creating and designing cutting-edge tools and applications that will redefine the future of banking
- Work in a truly agile environment, as part of scrum teams or leading scrum teams, striving to solve customer challenges
- Play a critical role in client journeys, helping to make faster decisions, enhance the end-to-end client experience, and achieve valuable client outcomes
What’s in it for you?
When you work with us, you’ll get to enjoy a learning culture that supports your continuous development and provides access to career growth programmes to support your digital learning, adaptability, and leadership skills. You’ll be part of a global team, working with subject matter experts across different functions and roles. We believe in delivering better together.
More than 84% of our people have opted for formal flexible working arrangements, and you too can be part of our pioneering initiative and embrace new ways of working. The Bank has committed to having 30% women in senior leadership roles by 2025, so join us to be among them.
Accelerated for growth
We serve as the engine that will enable us to move faster, harness synergies and accelerate the delivery of our strategy, and our transformation across the Bank.
Supporting employees
Over 25,000 people work in our India offices. Of those, 11,600 are employed in the Technology and Innovation team.
Cloud transformation
We’re making great progress in our cloud transformation journey. The bank of the future is here and if we’re to stay in business, cloud adoption is clearly non-negotiable.
Diverse and inclusive workforce
We’re committed to building a future-ready workforce enabled by digital skills, organisational adaptability, and leadership at every level.
Employer of choice
We’re proud to be named a ‘Gold Employer’ in the India Workplace index 2021 on LGBT+ Inclusion and are certified by the ‘Great Place to Work’