Job Summary

•    Technical support engineer supports business critical reports which could not directly retrieved from strategic solutions. Absence of golden sources for such computations that are essential and mandatory for control functions like Financial Control. Mission critical items that need to be turned around within two to three weeks of development and cannot stand a chance for getting piled as a part of the prioritization list of various strategic applications. Increase of manual interventions leading to increased efforts, control gaps and manual errors along with timely evaluation of the business objective thereby facilitating time to market of the compliance/control requirements. Unique business cases need to be handled as a part of this team majorly concentrating on Financial Controls and Group Reporting controls. Continuous enhancements based on regulatory and audit observations and internal spruce up of the control process sets a rising demand for enhancing these business cases on a regular basis. System upgrades also bring in a new dimension to these enhancements and would demand a modification to the developed functionalities to suit the new infrastructure needs. Team with cross functionality experience to enable easy handover and controls during people movements

Key Responsibilities

The Tech support engineer will be responsible for:
•    Software development methodologies and the software development lifecycle
•    Automate and prepare dashboard for BAU processes
•    Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means. Designing a secure application-release automation process to make security an integral part of the CI/CD pipelines
•    Identify security tools and lead operationalization of solutions from POC to Production, e.g. API Threat Protection, Container Security, etc. Streamline POC processes
•    Produce and streamline audit evidence
•    Stay current on threats, vulnerabilities, and controls
•    Involve in infrastructure provisioning, configuration of provisioned infrastructure. deployment of application and Plugins such as TFLint, Checkov, Docker Linter, docker-vulnerability-extension, Security Scan, Contrast Security, etc.,
•    Integrating crucial security tasks into CI/CD pipelines
•    Handle container security and secrets management
•    Configuration management
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
•    Aspire Core Finance Leadership team
•    GL Country Governance leadership team
•    Head of GCFO Change and Strategic Transformation
•    Finance Operations and Transformation Management Team
•    Other Stream leads in the ASPIRE programme (Data, Consolidations, Finance, Treasury)
•    GPOs for Data, R2R, P2P, BSM
•    Head, Group Regulatory Reporting
•    Country, Region, and Segment CFOs
•    Finance Technology team.

Skills and Experience

Technical Skills
•    IAM (RBAC, ABAC) and Secrets Management
•    DevOps – Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Ansible, BitBucket, GIT, Maven, Docker, Rundeck
•    Programming/Scripting languages such as SQL, Python,  Power shell,  Java  & Microservices, 
•    Basics of MS SQL database administration
•    Basics of Unix/Linux, Windows administration, OpenShift, Kubernetes
•    AWS/Azure cloud platform support
•    The absence of tactical computation systems that may be seasonal based on audit observations / time to market delays from strategic systems

Qualifications

Required:
•    More than 8 years of overall IT experience in production support, DevOps Or SRE & added support engineer.
•    Basic business knowledge on accounting and reporting.
•    Any experience in 1 or more of the following technical skills will be added advantage.
Good to Have:
•    Strong background in Banking Financial terminology and respective configuration in SAPS/4 HANA FICO area.
•    At least four end to end implementation experience in SAP FICO preferably in Banking financial sector
•    Hands on experience on configuring SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting Modules along with good functional skills to support customised reporting
•    In depth knowledge and experience of configuring FICO different business functionalities in SAP S/4 HANA
•    Exposure to PAPM and BPC integration will be an added advantage

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.