Job Summary

If you are not an engineer, cannot code, and are unable to motivate the organisation on the benefits of cloud, this role is not for you. 
This Senior cloud engineer role for the global cloud engineering requires the individual to lead the development, implementation and maintenance of global cloud platform for SCB.  They collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure platform reliability, availability and security are consistent with SCB standards across multiple cloud service providers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Implement/Design/Maintain a state-of-the-art platform to enable our customers to gain a faster time to market
•    Provide technical design expertise to internal engineering teams. 
•    Develop solutions that are secure, scalable, innovative and practical to implement and is fully consistent with the Bank audit and compliance requirements and in line with the design ethos and technical requirements of the external cloud providers.
•    Introduce and support emerging technology and best market practices to ensure consistent and state of the art systems are built, and business achieves enhanced benefits.

Business
•    Engage with senior business and technology stakeholders to understand the priorities and align cloud initiatives and organizational goals.
•    Take end-to-end ownership of developing, maintaining, and scaling the Cloud modules and patterns. Drive continuous improvement of Cloud solutions, based on feedback and business needs.
•    Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for cloud initiatives, such as deployment efficiency, cost savings, and user satisfaction.
•    Master effective communication and act as the interface between Customers and Development Teams 
 

Key Responsibilities

Processes
•    Have awareness of and understand the relevant regulation for the markets in which the bank operates such as sovereignty and resilience. 
•    Ensure compliance with Standard Chartered governance frameworks and challenge them where appropriate.
•    Keep program management teams in-tune with statuses and risks during change delivery.

People & Talent
•    The leader is an engineer at heart and keeps a lean, motivated, and highly skilled team of cloud engineers that together are obsessed with customer (internal or external) needs.
•    The team believes and advocates efficiency as a continuous engineering challenge not a commercial ambition.
•    The team of talented engineers has it drilled into them that their success also pivots on the ability for other engineers to deploy workloads on the cloud platform easily and seamlessly.
•    Be an inspiration to other engineers attracting and developing new talent to the organisation and managing poor performers.
•    Keep a list of practical yet challenging objectives and measures for the team and individuals to target.

Risk Management
•    Comply with organisation risk management framework.
•    Partner with CIO application engineering teams to reduce risk and prevent manual solutions.
•    Work closely with risk counterparts across technology, cyber and other areas for safe deployment of workloads to cloud

Governance
•    Ensure the value determination & realizations for workload migrations to cloud.
•    Ensure compliance with all applicable SC governance frameworks.
•    Adhere to and optimise cloud governance frameworks and processes.
•    Stay aware of changing regulatory landscape so that we can proactively manage the emerging requirements for workloads.
•    Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering regulations and guidelines.
 

Skills and Experience

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Responsibility for building a culture of good Conduct within the team.
•    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 matter.
•    Responsibility for risk, control and Conduct in the function and providing oversight over the risk, control and Conduct in the function.
•    Responsibility for adherence to the Mandatory Conduct Requirements and demonstrating positive risk, control and Conduct behaviours as part of their role.  Examples include:
o    Timely escalation and proactive management and mitigation of risks and issues.
o    Sharing lessons learnt with colleagues to prevent future errors.
o    Raising concerns and dealing with mistakes in a timely manner and encouraging others to speak up.
o    Cooperating fully with requests from regulators and Group Internal Audit.  
o    Promoting an inclusive culture, encouraging colleagues to act ethically, learn from mistakes, and set the right example to their teams.
o    Responsibility to conduct and complete the Mandatory Conduct Affirmation (MCA) annually, as part of the year- end review to affirm the following:
o    Risk & control and Conduct behaviours have been considered and assessed as part of continuous performance management.
o    Colleagues approach to risk, control and Conduct was considered when making Total Variable Compensation (TVC) proposals during year-end review.  
o    Responsibility for recognizing and providing positive feedback through feedback 365 channels and Going the Extra Mile (GEM) award.

Key stakeholders
•    Global Head, Cloud Platform
•    Head, Cloud platform engineering
•    Squad leads, Senior Engineer(s) - Platform engineering
•    Senior Engineer(s) – Application engineering
 

Qualifications

• BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
• CLOUD, SECURITY, AI/ML, FINOPS
• AWS, AZURE
• Terraform, Python, Golang (good to have), Bash scripting, YAML, Good orchestration skills

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.