Apprentice Technology GBS India 2026

Apprenticeship – Tech-GBS - India 

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.   

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.    

Together with a group of highly driven technologists, you’ll get to collaborate and work on solutions that provide the best digital experiences and continually enhance existing offerings. Innovation is a big part of our execution agenda as we strive for excellence. If you’re a curious technologist and tackling challenges excites you, then this programme will be the springboard you are looking for.

About the programme 

Our 12 Months Apprenticeship Programme gives you the opportunity to gain first hand experience working on real world problems hone your skills create lasting relationships gain insights and discover your strengths. Throughout the programme, you'll acquire the skills for immediate success, as well as understand what's required for the future as our industry and your career evolve. 

During Apprenticeship, you’ll experience and be expose to an incredible and varied learning experience, which will include: 

•    Talent assignments 
•    Technical and professional skills training 
•    Future skills development workshops 
•    Targeted online learning. 
•    Inspiring thought leadership speaker events 
•    Real-life business problem solving and more. 

Preferred Skills  

•    Experience in project initiatives using J2EE based web applications (Spring boot, JPA, JSP, JSTL, XSLT, Servlet, JDBC, JMS, JAXB, Hibernate) and Web security.
•    Knowledge on Web Services standards and technologies (e.g., SOA, XML, SOAP, WSDL, REST, JSON, JSON API)
•    Linux/UNIX knowledge
•    Experienced in databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
•    Understand Software Development Lifecycle and/or Agile Delivery Approach. 

Eligibility  

We welcome students from Engineering degrees with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.

You’ll be a final year student or 2025 passed outs, able to start August 2026, with the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.  

We’re looking for team players with excellent academic achievements and extracurricular activities, who are agile, flexible, with strong technical abilities and open to learning.

About Standard Chartered  

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients and communities.  And we’re on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank.   

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  
•    Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term  

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers  

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• 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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers