Job Summary

We are looking for a Stablecoin Engineering Lead to join our Technology team and drive the successful delivery of the stablecoin workstream within the bank’s digital currency initiatives. This role requires a blend of engineering knowledge, functional expertise, and delivery management skills to orchestrate the workstream across multiple functions, including product, development, QA, operations, and downstream interfaces.
The ideal candidate will have experience in managing complex, cross-functional workstreams, ensuring smooth delivery, and minimizing time to market. The role requires a solid understanding of payments systems, stablecoins, and blockchain technologies to effectively coordinate and align teams.

Key Responsibilities

Workstream Delivery Management:
•    Own the end-to-end delivery of the stablecoin workstream, ensuring all milestones are met on time and within scope.
•    Develop and maintain detailed delivery plans, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies across all functions.
•    Ensure alignment between product, development, QA, operations, and downstream teams to deliver a seamless solution.

Cross-Functional Orchestration:
•    Act as the central point of coordination for the workstream, ensuring effective collaboration across product, engineering, QA, operations, and external interfaces.
•    Manage dependencies between teams and escalate risks or blockers to the appropriate stakeholders.
•    Ensure that downstream systems and interfaces are ready for stablecoin integration.

Stakeholder Management:
•    Collaborate with product teams to understand business requirements and ensure they are translated into actionable technical deliverables.
•    Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders on workstream progress, risks, and mitigation plans.
•    Act as the primary point of contact for all workstream-related queries and escalations.

Engineering and Functional Oversight:
•    Work closely with engineering teams to ensure technical solutions align with the overall programme architecture and meet quality standards.
•    Provide functional guidance on stablecoin use cases, payments flows, and integration points with existing systems.
•    Ensure that testing and operational readiness plans are comprehensive and aligned with delivery timelines.

Risk and Issue Management:
•    Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues that could impact the delivery of the workstream.
•    Proactively address challenges to minimize delays and ensure smooth execution.

Continuous Improvement:
•    Identify opportunities to streamline delivery processes and improve efficiency across the workstream.
•    Drive a culture of continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and applying them to future deliveries.

Key Skills and Experience
Delivery Management:
•    Proven experience in managing complex, cross-functional workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
•    Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies.

Technical Knowledge:
•    Solid understanding of stablecoins, blockchain technologies, and payments systems (e.g., RTGS, ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022).
•    Familiarity with software development lifecycles (SDLC) and modern engineering practices (e.g., Agile, CI/CD).

Functional Expertise:
•    Strong knowledge of payments flows and integration points with downstream systems.
•    Experience working with product teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

Stakeholder Management:
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and align diverse stakeholders.
•    Experience in managing senior stakeholders and providing clear, concise updates on progress and risks.

Problem-Solving and Risk Management:
•    Proactive approach to identifying and resolving risks, issues, and blockers.
•    Ability to think critically and make decisions under pressure.

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

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
•    key stakeholders to identify include executives, end-users, IT teams, and subject matter experts

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
•    8+ years of experience in delivery management, payments technology, or related roles.
•    Experience with blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Hyperledger) and digital currency frameworks is a plus.
•    Certifications in Agile (e.g., Scrum Master, SAFe) or project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) are a plus.

Skills and Experience

Payment’s 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.