Job Summary

Standard Chartered’s diverse footprint across 63 of the fastest growing markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East creates unique opportunities for passionate, motivated, and highly skilled people who want to make a difference. We are changing the way people think about banking. We are changing the way we do business – becoming the digital bank with a human touch. This is your opportunity to be part of a growth story in an industry that is reimagining how customers are getting better, faster experiences and convenience through digital technology.

Our Information & Cyber Security (ICS) team sits within the Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) function and is responsible for all mission-critical and enterprise-wide areas of cybersecurity, including identity and access management, global threat intelligence, data protection, malware protection, and application and infrastructure security. These are challenges that impact our clients globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for governance and engineering of all access elevation and session controls, driving measurable reduction in standing privilege and blast radius.
• Own Zero Standing Privilege capability outcomes, including backlog prioritisation, delivery health, and budget stewardship, ensuring privileged elevation follows controlled, policy‑aligned pathways with no persistent or ungoverned privileged access.
• Architect, govern, and operate the PAM capability, ensuring alignment with Identity Role Engineering Capability policies and Identity Lifecycle events.
• Define, govern, and continuously improve elevation models, vaulting standards, credential lifecycle, session control, and break‑glass processes.
• Translate policy into enforceable privileged access configurations and workflows.
• Implement Zero Standing Privilege, Just-in-Time elevation, and session management.
• Maintain auditability, automation, and resilience under failure.
• Lead adoption of PAM-as-Code practices, independent of tools, with version control, peer review, and automated validation.
• Define KPIs for access reliability, automation coverage, and operational resilience.
• Own migration from traditional vaults to Zero Standing Privilege.
• Lead a high-performing team responsible for operational delivery and continuous improvement.
• Partner with other Capabilities to maintain alignment between policy, privileged access, and assurance.
• Define and track KPIs demonstrating the transition from manual interpretation to automated, deterministic enforcement.
• Partner with other Capabilities to ensure privileged elevation semantics align with enterprise access policy, lifecycle events, and assurance telemetry, preventing divergence across platforms.
• Support capability growth through hiring input, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Skills and Experience

• 15+ years of total experience as a cyber security professional with at least 8 years demonstrated experience defining and governing enterprise authorisation policy in regulated environments.
• Experience in translating business, regulatory and risk intent into executable policy.
• Experience in establishing capabilities with strong engineering standards.
• Experienced in leading complex, enterprise-wide initiatives with accountability for capability and outcomes.
• Experience in enterprise‑scale privileged access management, including vaulting, session control, credential lifecycle, and regulated‑environment risk management.
• Familiar with enterprise directories and identity platforms such as Active Directory, Entra and related IAM technologies
• Familiar with operating systems, middleware, databases, and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) from identity threats perspective
• Familiar with emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligences, Agentic AI and Digital Assets from identity threats perspective
• Analytical, delivery-oriented mindset with the ability to balance strategy and execution.

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.
• 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.