Job Summary

The role will be responsible for delivering scalable, resilient, fault tolerant solutions from partner vendors. Formulate and deliver an end-to-end technology strategy in collaboration with the Cash product & COO team for all current and future technology requirements of the organization.

The FI clearing business underpins all of the Group’s operations. In scope is the ownership of one or more pillar that comes under FI Clearing Hive to support the FI clearing business of all USD, EUR, GBP and JPY currency transactions. This is a Group critical application suite requiring the delivery of constant service with reputational and regulatory implications to the Group should any failure in service arise, along with a constant level of change and functional uplift.

Key Responsibilities

Adopting new ways of working models and delivering strategic payment program across the Cash business.
•    Responsible for the technology delivery of the FI Clearing space – Delivering strategic payment programs through agile and on state-of-the-art architecture. 
•    Manage technology strategy for FI Clearing portfolio, provide architecture direction, guiding principles, guardrails, and roadmaps that are aligned to both Business and Group’s Tech strategy.
•    Collaborate with business partners and play a key role to increase commercialisation of the FI Clearing solution.
•    Manage overall program backlog and achieve agreement on key program deliverables in partnership with various stakeholders and in alignment with business goals. Review and adjust direction and approach in collaboration with business stakeholders to keep programme on track.
•    Interface with global business, Ops & technology leaders of other SCB interfacing systems for collaborative design, planning and end-to-end delivery. 
•    Challenge the status quo and champion a new culture of collaboration, innovation, agility, productivity, increased adoption, and continuous improvement.
•    Build and sustain a strong and trusted relationship with Business partners and Interface platform partners.

Portfolio
•    Drive the implementation for a future-ready payments platform, utilising architectural patterns such as microservices architecture, to achieve outcomes of highly scalable, robust, resilient, designed for failure, etc. Ensuring that the solutions are designed and built on a stable and highly scalable infrastructure based on latest technologies and best practice; such as Cloud, DevOps, and Chaos Engineering.
•    Accountable for governance of all technology decisions across payment portfolio; balancing business objectives with business drivers against implementation speed, risk, and cost.

•    Empower the engineers within the delivery teams with the right tools and practice to improve SDLC process efficiency - with focus on quality assurance, developer experiences, automation and performance engineering, with speed, scalability and stability in mind. Enforce and streamline sound development practices. Establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice and support, to assure the product is developed, implemented and maintained aligning with the Group’s standards
•    As a key member of the Management team, develop the strategic direction and roadmap for Cash Technology while adopting agile practices; aligning with Business & IT Strategy, Bank’s Digital Agenda and Portfolio Investment priorities. Proactively advise the senior management team on the emerging technologies and transformation trends that are most relevant to the company's goals and evolving needs. Shape the future of technology, maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community. 
•    Envisage and align the portfolio to the growing technology needs & capabilities like Cloud, AI etc. Determine and ensure optimal cost of delivery of programs. Support Business and Cash Operations by leveraging technology to streamline processes, enhance productivity, enable straight-through processing & zero touch, reduce risk and improve controls part of FI Clearing deliveries.

Vendor Management
•    The FI clearing space solution is primarily vendor supplied and requires extensive management focus. 
•    Management of all Vendor controls including supporting regulatory requirements, Service delivery, Application quality control, Functional deliveries, Financial management and fostering overall vendor relationship and strategy with the Group’s business partners.

Qualifications

•    Between 15-20 years’ of experience with 10 years of relevant experience in delivery, implementation in CCIB Business segments
•    Strong understanding of Payments Domain, with optional understanding of other CASH domain products like Liquidity, Collections etc.
•    Demonstrated success in stakeholder engagement, management and dealing with constant change, designing solutions, track record of delivering impactful business solutions.
•    Demonstrated success in vendor management.
•    Strong Technology Delivery management.
•    Ability to own delivering outcomes across a very vast and complex range of platform and product teams, including working with multiple cross-functional teams - infra, ICS, PSS, Country TMs.
•    Excellent relationship building skills;
•    Highly adaptable, self-starter, ability to deal with ambiguity, thrives in fast-moving and high-growth environments

Skills and Experience

• Languages: COBOL, C, Java, Bash, Perl etc
• Middleware: IBM MQ, JMS, REST API, SOLACE etc
• Operating Systems: AIX, Linux, WindowsExpertise in ACI Payments Products (MTS, UPF, RGW, Video, etc)

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.