Key Responsibilities

The Business Solution Lead will be a key member of Trade Business Engineering team and responsible for delivering the functional design and mapping business requirements to systems/technical design. The role holder will form a key part of a fast-paced, ambitious, delivery programme.

Deliver Functional Design

• Participate in business process re-engineering
• Play proxy Product Owner role (as required)
• Work closely with product management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value
• Support Product Owner in product backlog management and prioritization process
• Lead the product release planning and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Ensure that Agile development team always have an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories, epics and themes with acceptance criteria to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Support Product Owner in gathering and analysing requirements and breaking them down into Epics and User Stories.
• Design the system capabilities as per requirements and create appropriate design documents (FSDs).
• Ensure well defined Acceptance Criteria that will help in Test Driven/ Behaviour Driven Development
• Walk through user stories with the development team and provide functional clarifications
• Provide functional consultancy support to development team for Technical Design
• Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material
• Providing functional support during User Acceptance/Integration Testing
• Functional analysis of SIT/UAT/Production defects and recommend solutions
• Walkthrough the User Manual/ Production User Verification scripts with users

Adherence to Risk & Data Quality Management Requirements

• Continuous management of the Trade Application System risks
• Proactively identify issues and actions 
• Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
• Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design

Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with resources and teams across different location

Key Stakeholders

• Operations (Group, Regional, Country and Hubs)
• Business - Product/Sales/Segments (Group, Regional, Country)
• Technology – Delivery Teams and Technical Architecture)
• Hive Leads
• Chapter Leads
• Trade Technology Team
• Interface IT Teams
• Technology Services Teams

Skills and Experience

Mandatory Skills: 

• Strong presentation and communication skills 
• Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs 
• Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, Micro service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints 
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities 
• Agile project methodologies 

Prior Experience:

• Relevant experience of 10-15 years
• Banking/Fintech experience mandatory
• Trade Finance domain experience preferred

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree

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.