Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled SAP Application Architect with extensive experience in SAP systems and hands on Hadoop, HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and midrange servers. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing robust SAP solutions, integrating them with big data/midrange technologies, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our enterprise applications. This role requires a deep understanding of both SAP and big data ecosystems, and the ability to align technology solutions with business goals.

Key responsibilities of the role:
•    Lead the Solution Intent creation for different use cases across the SAP-BTP platform
•    Conduct multiple review discussions across multiple stakeholders in refining the Solution intent document
•    Present the Solution Intent in various forums for review and approval including the Architecture Review Forum (ARF), Functions Technology Committee (FTC), Cloud Clearing House (CCH), Security review Forum etc
•    Get involved and help drive the overall SAP-BTP enablement including architectural and process recommendations across the portfolio
•    Proactively advice the management team on the emerging technology transformation trends that are most relevant to the company’s goals and evolving needs
•    High degree of proficiency in hands-on low-level design, coding, automation and troubleshooting
•    API, Microservices design expertise. Build reusable components / API’s when designing any foundational data engineering project.
•    Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
•    Identify, design and implement internal process improvements, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability etc
•    Work with stakeholders including the executive, product, data and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
•    Support transformation agenda, business operating models, standards, finance risk controls and compliance with regulations.

Key Responsibilities

•    Engage with various business and technology stakeholders, participate in agile squad’s to recommend and finalise architecture design. Manage key stakeholders and senior management for architecture decisions and inputs
•    Experience in establishing effective partnerships across teams and influence senior management, peers and subordinates.
•    Working with business clients to understand their needs and to implement the cloud strategies designed to meet those needs.
•    Ensuring Security while on-boarding apps into Cloud
•    Design and architect comprehensive SAP solutions that integrate with Hadoop and other big data technologies.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into Solution Intent documentation.
•    Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, technical documentation, and best practices for SAP and big data integrations.
•    Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
•    Stay updated with the latest advancements in SAP, Hadoop, and big data technologies, and evaluate their potential impact on the organization.
•    Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies.

Strategy
•    Part of the Group’s Functions-Finance Team, an experienced SME is required to operate in an Agile squad involved in changes and rollouts to the Management information and data analytics ecosystem of applications and services as part of the TTO. This person is expected to have strong Business Intelligence (BI) knowledge responsible for designing ETL, Data modeling, Data Analysis, Reverse Engineering, PLSQL coding and tuning and BI reporting like SAC and MSTR.  

Business
•    Coordinate with business analysts and internal customers to develop functional and technical specification documents 
•    Understand the business needs and their pain points and design a solution that addresses their needs
•    Since this is MI reporting, there will be a lot of collaboration with business teams, so communication has to be clear and to the point.
•    Ensure that all documentation, processes and methodologies used in the various phases of system development and implementation is in accordance with the Group’s standards
•    Possess sound communications skills
•    Perform analysis of the current state, and future state requirements. Provide solution options, along with high level estimates, impact assessments and technology recommendations.
•    Create well-written and elaborated epics, stories and sub-tasks which can be reviewed by the business and utilized by the development and testing for implementation.
•    Highlight project risks, suggest how they might be mitigated.

Processes
•    Strong commitment to sound development practices, including test and deploy with version control (GIT)
•    Ensure compliance of regulations and policies. 
•    Ensure the solution is aligned with bank’s ICS controls 
•    Taking part in review forums such as ARF, FTC and SACA and ensure the solution is in line with the standards defined in these forums.

People & Talent
•    Should conduct regular status call and share status reports with ITO team. Collect requirements Stories from business team and analyze it and propose right solution business
•    Identifies and recommends new technology or practices that will add value to the organization in terms of performance and cost
•    Undertakes continuous improvement for the dev practice.
•    Mentoring new team members 

Risk Management
•    Ensure the deliverables are completed on time and support the processes whenever there is an absence of a team member by stepping up and performing their role 

Governance
•    Ensure compliance of regulations, policies and requirements of the In-Scope countries 

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Skills and Experience

•    ETL
•    SAP/S4 HANA
•    BI reporting tools 
•    Data analysis
•    Data modelling
•    Technical Solution Design
•    Azure / AWS
•    Banking Industry experience
•    ADO / Confluence
•    Project management
•    Microsoft Office

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
•    Overall 12+ years of experience with minimum of 6 years of experience in SAP application architecture and design.
•    Extensive experience with Hadoop, HaaS, and other big data technologies.
•    Proficiency in SAP modules such as S4 HANA, Datasphere, SAC BI, FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, and HCM.
•    Strong understanding of business processes and how they are supported by SAP and big data solutions.
•    Experience with SAP implementation, configuration, and customization.
•    Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
•    Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
•    SAP certification is a plus.
•    Strong analytic skills related to working with structured / unstructured datasets

Preferred Skills
•    Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
•    Knowledge of SAP Fiori and SAP UI5.
•    Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
•    Project management experience.
•    Strong influential and analytical skills. Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership.
•    Software Development Fundamentals: Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and architecture styles. 
•    Cloud Computing: Familiarity any of the cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and cloud-native technologies. 
•    Networking: Basic knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.
•    System Design: Ability to design scalable, modular, and maintainable systems. 
•    Security: Understanding of security best practices and vulnerabilities. 
•    DevOps: Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and delivery. 
•    Resilience: Good understanding of Resilience strategies & concepts (Availability, FT; DR; RTO; RPO; Read Replicas)
•    Performance and Cost: Ability to balance Performance and Cost Optimization techniques.

Competencies

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.

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