Job Summary

The role of the Senior Manager, Solution Design is to:

Collaborate with various departments and stakeholders to gather, document, and analyse business requirements, processes, and workflows. They will translate these requirements into functional specifications for technology teams and work closely with project managers, developers, and testers to ensure successful project delivery. The Business Analyst will also be involved in identifying areas for process improvement and recommending solutions to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Requirement Elicitation and Analysis:

Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges.
Elicit, document, and analyze business requirements, processes, and workflows.
Translate business requirements into clear and concise functional specifications for technical teams.

Solution Design:

Collaborate with technology teams to design solutions that meet business needs.
Propose innovative and practical solutions to address business challenges.
Ensure that proposed solutions align with the organization's strategic goals and technological capabilities.

Stakeholder Communication:

Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams.
Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Present findings, recommendations, and project updates to various audiences.

Key Responsibilities

. Documentation:

Create detailed documentation including business requirements, process flows, use cases, and user stories.
Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Project Management:

Collaborate with project managers to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
Assist in project planning, estimation, and resource allocation.
Monitor project progress and identify potential risks or deviations from the plan.

Quality Assurance:

Participate in system testing, user acceptance testing, and validation of implemented solutions.
Ensure that delivered solutions meet the specified requirements and are of high quality.

Process Improvement:

Identify areas for process optimization and efficiency enhancement.
Recommend process improvements and assist in their implementation.

Technical skills

• Hands on in Java, MicroServices, J2EE, EJB, Spring and Spring boot, Postgres, Oracle SQL
• Good knowledge on HazelCast or equivalent caching technologies
• Expertise in DevOps tools - Jenkins, Rundeck, Helms (desired)

Skills and Experience

Strategy

Identifying the needs of business and determining the direction it needs to go in order to excel and succeed

Business
Use data to form business insights and recommend changes in businesses and other organizations

Processes
scope of changes to business processes, providing details about the current business context, existing business processes, and stakeholders involved in these business processes.

People & Talent
Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners

Risk Management
The ability to interpret the Group's financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance
Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group's arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas; Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

Qualifications

• Payments domain knowledge

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.