JOB SUMMARY

The role holder will be part of Wealth Management Core Platform Hive and be accountable for delivery of Core Platform hive changes, as well as Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and prioritize impactful initiatives using data-driven insights. As an Engineering lead, role holder will be accountable for Solution, design and delivery.  

We are looking for a talented individual who has functional and delivery expertise in front to back trade flow of one or more Capital Markets products, with extensive experience in delivering booking and settlement initiatives on core booking platforms. The candidate must possess at least 15 years of experience in Banking / Wealth Management and have strong communication and stakeholder managements skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Lead responsibilities include:
•    Perform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for wealth core platforms, Temenos Transact  (T24) and other wealth core processing applications.
•    Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.
•    Deliver solution intent and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.
•    Coordinate with Temenos on T24 setup & issues follow up/resolution.
•    Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
•    Design APIs and other relevant means of platform or application consumption according to standards.
•    Responsible for resolution of design vs build dispensations as noted by Technology Service Owner & Solution Architect during regular reviews.
•    Responsible for detailed documentation and maintenance of application architecture
•    Self-evaluates updates to application architecture for minor/ non-architectural impact changes.
•    Ensures that the design & implementation are aligned to best practices, standards, and principles.

•    Identifies impact of technology standard lifecycle changes to supported applications and raises application specific risks to Technology Service Owner and Solution/ Domain Architects for resolution.
•    Co-ordinates with solution and domain architects for review of significant application changes (application architecture review) and drive architecture approval via Architecture Review Forum/ Domain Tech Council for any initiatives with architecture impact
•    Engagement Request (ER) Creation and Management (Vendor management) - SCBuy Portal (Fixed Bid related engagements) - Tech PMO to help with the Sc-BUY and contract related activities.
•    Drive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.
•    Engage, Facilitate & coordinate with External Vendor for Penetration Test. Including Vendor Execution Schedule
Strategy
•    Manage and track execution progress of approved initiatives to drive the Transformation agenda. 
•    Support the development of the Core Wealth Platform strategic direction and roadmap, in alignment with the business strategy and investment appetite.
•    Work with WM Hive leads to ensure project deliveries are effectively implemented across geographies.  

Business

•    Maintain strong stakeholder engagement with WM Business, COO/ Operations, T&I, Risk & Compliance and Group Internal Audit to ensure alignment across stakeholder groups to support the tribe deliverables. 
•    Ensure appropriate representation across the stakeholder groups in delivery forums.
•    Escalate appropriately to ensure key stakeholders like Cluster Lead, Hive Lead, Hive Tech Lead and Chief product owner are updated and able to intervene as required.

Processes
•    Align technical solutions with Security and production readiness requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation.
•    Ensure that all applications meet security and regulatory standards to maintain compliance and avoid potential penalties.
•    Technology Governance - Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production.  - The controls cover: Requirements, Architecture (see Architecture Review Forum below), Security (see Cyber Security Services below), Development, Testing, IT Resilience, Service Level Management, Tech Operations & Support, Release Management, SW Configuration Management
•    Service Asset & Configuration Management - Create / update a CI (Configuration Item) record in CMDB (Prerequisite for IT RBIA and S-BIA)
•    Complete comprehensive security impact assessments to ensure compliance with governance requirements and mitigate potential risks.
•    Ensure compliance with bank compliance guidelines & standards (e.g., data protection).
•    Address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.

People & Talent 

•    Demonstrate and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture in the region. 
•    Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement.
•    Set effective metrics and standards, transparently communicating them to squads.
•    Ensure squad capacity is reviewed to enable delivery of client outcome

Risk Management
•    Risk control and governance: ensuring oversight and driving improvement in the control & resilience agenda.
•    Developing a forward-looking end-to-end view across Wealth Management environment and proactively identifying and escalating issues and sharing themes / lessons learnt.

Governance 
•    Adherence to policies and control standards, ensuring compliance and operation within risk tolerance and risk appetite.
•    Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Bank operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’ within the deliverables and possessing the ability to constructively challenge relevant stakeholders and teams effectively.
•    Ability and willingness to work through details with relevant control functions in an open and collaborative manner to achieve the desired governance outcome within the bank’s risk appetite.
•    Work with global teams in Risk, Compliance and COO Office to ensure adherence to the Bank’s Risk framework, in the identification, assessment, mitigation, control and monitoring of risk.

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
•    Investment Advisors, Team Heads, Relationship Managers, (PvB and Retail)
•    Global WM Product Teams
•    Global and Country Technology teams
•    Product Owners across Digital and Client Journey
•    Country WM Product Heads
•    Group, Regional and Country WM COO team

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Certified Scrum Product Owner or comparable Product Owner certifications

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Understanding Customer Needs
•    WM Products and Processes
•    Data Architecture
•    Transact T24
•    Agile Project Management

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.