Job Summary

The Hive Tech Lead (HTL) for Audit Technology is a senior leadership role responsible for end-to-end delivery governance, financial oversight, and technology leadership across key Audit platforms, including SARA (Strategic Audit Risk and Assurance) and CMS (Case Management System).

The role will support the final phase of Appian decommissioning (target July 2025) and ensure a smooth transition to a stable run-and-change operating model, while driving ongoing enhancements, regulatory initiatives, and platform optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Governance & Assurance

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability across SARA and CMS platforms
• Ensure successful completion of Appian decommissioning and platform stabilisation
• Drive predictable delivery across multiple squads and releases

Financial & Investment Management

• Lead investment planning, business case validation, and funding alignment
• Track budget, forecasts, and spend vs plan
• Ensure strong financial governance and cost discipline

Architecture & Technology Governance

• Ensure adherence to Service Bench architecture standards and enterprise guardrails
• Drive design reviews, reuse, and platform consistency
• Manage technical roadmap and prioritisation (features vs tech debt)

Risk, Compliance & Audit Readiness

• Own risk and issue management across delivery lifecycle
• Ensure continuous audit readiness and ESDLC compliance
• Maintain required artefacts, controls, and governance evidence

Cross-Squad & Dependency Management

• Manage interdependencies across SARA, CMS, and broader LARC platforms
• Drive integrated planning, milestone tracking, and release coordination

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary technology partner for Audit stakeholders
• Provide clear, decision-ready reporting to senior leadership
• Align business priorities with technology delivery plans

People & Capability Leadership

• Oversee engineering capability across squads (perm + vendor)
• Ensure optimal resource allocation and skill alignment
• Drive engineering practices, quality standards, and operating model adherence

People & Talent

8+ years of experience in the following,

• Strong experience in enterprise application delivery and platform engineering
• Proven track record managing large-scale, multi-squad programmes
• Experience in financial governance, budgeting, and investment planning
• Strong understanding of architecture governance and enterprise platforms
• Experience working in regulated environments (Audit / Risk / Compliance preferred)
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills

Risk Management

• Mitigate delivery risks and issues, and ensure quality, affordability, and scope of delivery.
• Act as the risk control owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level.

Governance

• Own risk and issue management across delivery lifecycle
• Ensure continuous audit readiness and ESDLC compliance
• Maintain required artefacts, controls, and governance evidence

Key stakeholders

• Business Unit MT, Business Heads, Function Heads, Product Management / Product Ownership, Delivery Team, Group Process owners and Functional Partners including Risk, CFCC, HR, Finance, Legal, GIA.

Skills and Experience

• ADO & Confluence
• Scrum & Kanban Board
• DevOps, GIT, Testing, Data Structures & Algorithm
• Design patterns, database, software lifecycle
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills
• Java, programming frameworks & API Design Principles OR Lit.dev, JavaScript frameworks
• Risk Management, Impact Assessment & Security Assessment

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.