Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Application Architect, who is highly skilled in designing scalable secure and performant distributed systems for complex use cases in Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC domain. Delivering value to our customers is at the core of what our teams do - this role works closely with Enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment of application architecture to broader enterprise architecture patterns and strategies. 

This role leads the change and transformation in Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC domains, by modernizing the architecture as per the bank’s standards and by working with multiple software teams to help them becoming high-performing and continuously innovate and optimise the application design, architecture, and capacity.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Clear understanding of the Enterprise Architecture patterns and strategy.
• Drive the Transformation towards cloud native and cloud deployed application architecture
• Drive optimisation with a rigorous focus on efficiency & optimisation of application infrastructure capacity.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the group operates.

Processes    

• Work with Solution Architects in Architecture Team to ensure that Project/Application Architecture, Architecture Strategy, Standards, Process, Best Practices.
• Work with Project Team and Vendors to ensure that Patterns and Best Practices are being considered and applied appropriately.
• Ensure vendor relationships are appropriately managed in partnership with Supply Chain Management Team wherever required.

People & Talent

• Provide Architecture and Engineering guidance to the Project team
• Responsible for creating, maintaining Project/Application-level architecture documentation and Roadmaps
• Work with Project teams to lead and drive Evaluations and Proof of Concepts for new technologies and other strategic technology initiatives
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Participate and contribute effectively to technical chapters such as Java, kubernetes and micro services guilds.
• Responsible for uplifting our capability of Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC teams in implementing solution using modern technologies. 
• Take Active participation in key technical hires to continuously upskill technical depth of the team.
   

Risk Management

• Work closely with Project Team to ensure projects are implemented in line with approved Architecture and Target Architecture.
• Work with project team closely to address day to day architecture and engineering challenges

Governance

• Responsible to work with project Team to ensure submissions to Architecture Review Forum (ARF) and Functions Technology Council (FTC) meet the required level of due diligence and quality from an architecture perspective.
• Responsible to ensure that Application/Project level architecture processes and any related deliverables are completed/met.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding 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.

Key stakeholders

• Global Head, Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC Technology
• Domain Head – Assemble Platform  
• Head of Compliance Surveillance Data & Analytics
• Global Head - Change Management – CFCC
• Chief Product Owner / Product Owners 
• Domain Architect, Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC
• Domain Chief Architect, Functions
• Technology Teams
• Product Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Agile Delivery Leads

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Technology Services – Functions.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country or Functional policies and procedures.
• Bing continuous improvement culture in the team and work with SRE Lead to bringing automation first attitude of team

Skills and Experience

• Architecting Distributed Systems    
• Architecture Governance, Processes and Enterprise Architecture principles    
• Experience in Java, Spring boot, Spring Framework and ecosystem    
• Container Technologies (e.g., Kubernetes)    
• APIs, Integration and Middleware Technologies    
• Data and Big Data Technologies    
• Analytics and AI/ML    
• Technology Trends and Industry Knowledge    
• Manage Stakeholder

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     Bachelor or master’s degree in computer engineering / Computer Science preferred.    
• CERTIFICATIONS     Cloud, Java, Spring, Architecture, Kubernetes, Big Data, AI/ML related certifications preferred
• LANGUAGES     English

About Standard Chartered

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

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.