Job Summary

Strategy

•    Supports Hive Tech Lead on Technology strategy, roadmap, and execution. 
•    Support Chief Product Owner & Hive Tech Lead on analysis for planning, budgeting and QPR reporting, including trade-off analysis.
•    Deliver outputs that make a significant contribution to the organization's strategic goals.
•    Partner with stakeholders to determine the right solutions to business needs.

Business

•    Lead and coordinate few of multiple delivery streams within the SARA roadmap
•    Act as a hybrid Project Manager / Scrum Master, operating hands-on with delivery squads, while managing upward reporting and forward planning and day to day risk management helping improving predictability and reduce uncertainty.
•    Anchor decision-making at the ground level while maintaining alignment with leadership objectives and constraints.
•    Bring delivery confidence and structural calm during a time-bound, high-visibility rollout phase.

Key Responsibilities

Processes

•    Study existing engineering processes and contribute to improvements to drive up efficiencies. Present ideas across other areas and foster innovation.
•    Analyse, remove, or mitigate dependencies across teams to enable speed and quality of delivery.
•    Responsible in the preparation of production outputs and their planning in alignment to ESDLC standards. 

People & Talent 

•    Work on upskilling of the team in line with latest market trend.
•    Mentoring and training the squad on agile processes.
•    Work with Hive Tech Lead to ensure the agreed blend and balance of in-house and vendor resources.-Deve

Skills and Experience

Risk Management

•    Mitigate delivery risks and issues, and ensure quality, affordability, and scope of delivery.
•    Act as the risk control owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level.

Governance 

•    Address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements through the delivery lifecycle (design reviews, security reviews, SAT, OAT, etc.) with support from HTL(Hive Tech Lead) / PO / CPO (Chief Product Owner). 

Key stakeholders

•    Business Unit MT, Business Heads, Function Heads, Product Management / Product Ownership, Delivery Team, Group Process owners and Functional Partners including Risk, CFCC, HR, Finance, Legal, GIA.

Qualifications

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Ado & confluence
Scrum & kanban board
Devops, GIT, Testing, Data Structures & Algorithm
Design patterns, database, software lifecycle
Stakeholder management, negotiation & communication skills
Java, programming frameworks & API Design Principles OR Lit.dev, javascript frameworks 
Risk management, impact assessment & security assessment

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.