Job Summary

• The Engineering Delivery Manager turns complex technology strategy into predictable, measurable delivery across global teams.
• Owns delivery of complex, cross-functional software and platform initiatives across a global organisation. The role connects architecture, engineering execution and business strategy, ensuring teams deliver secure, scalable and valuable outcomes. It provides hands-on technical leadership where needed while establishing the executive-level governance, prioritisation and risk management needed to deliver predictably

Key Responsibilities

Key Outcomes and Responsibilities

The role leads complex, cross-functional initiatives and is accountable for delivery outcomes, delivery health, stakeholder alignment and sustainable execution.

Key outcomes:
• Complex initiatives are delivered to agreed outcomes, milestones, quality standards and financial constraints.
• Architecture and delivery decisions balance customer value, scalability, resilience, security, cost and time to market.
• Global teams operate from an integrated plan with clear ownership, dependencies, decision rights and escalation paths.
• Executives and stakeholders have transparent, timely insight into progress, risks, trade-offs and decisions required.
• Delivery risks, technical debt, dependencies and capacity constraints are identified early and actively managed.
• Teams improve delivery maturity through repeatable ways of working, meaningful metrics and continuous learning.

Core responsibilities:
• Define the delivery strategy, roadmap, operating rhythm and success measures for multi-team initiatives.
• Lead programme governance, portfolio reporting, steering forums, decision logs and executive communications.
• Shape target architectures and technical options; review designs, interfaces, non-functional requirements and implementation trade-offs.
• Coordinate engineering, product, security, data, operations, finance, procurement and external partners across regions and time zones.
• Establish integrated plans, critical paths, dependency maps, RAID logs, release readiness criteria and recovery actions.
• Prioritise people, funding and engineering capacity with senior leaders, making explicit trade-offs when demand exceeds supply.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-team blockers and ensure decisions are made at the right level and at the right time.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors and senior stakeholders, challenging constructively and translating technical complexity into business impact.
• Coach delivery and engineering leaders, strengthen accountability and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Ensure delivery practices meet relevant security, privacy, operational resilience, architecture and regulatory expectations.

The role is a senior individual contributor and cross-functional leader. It may lead people directly depending on organisational design and may direct the work of multiple delivery teams without direct line authority.

Skills and Experience

• Software and platform architecture
• Complex delivery leadership and governance
• Global cross-functional collaboration
• Risk, dependency and resource prioritisation
• Executive stakeholder influence
• Engineering operating models and metrics
• Commercial, vendor and financial management
• Significant experience delivering complex software, platform or digital transformation initiatives across multiple teams and regions; hands-on experience shaping architecture and technical strategy; experience operating in matrixed organisations with executive governance; evidence of managing delivery risk, dependencies, capacity, budgets and third-party partners.

Qualifications

Degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related discipline. Recognised delivery, architecture or agile certification is beneficial but not mandatory.

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.