Job Summary

Join our team as Lead Network Engineer, and you will be at the helm in managing end to end quality delivery of assigned network project, ensuring adherence to Network Engineering Standard, and resolve issues in all project life cycle (initiation, build, migration, and handover).

About our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you will contribute to the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.  

Responsibilities:

•    Report to Network Lead, Data
•    Manage end-to-end quality delivery of assigned network project ensuring adherence to Network engineering standard and the subsequent handover to Operation team
•    Provide consistent and on time update on assigned network project task in coordination with network project lead, overall project PM (Project Management) and application support team
•    Provide support required in resolving issues/risk and dependency of assigned project in coordination with other stakeholders for both technical and non-technical issue
•    Ensures assigned network project tasks are delivered on time, on budget against agreed scope
•    Highlight and provide resolution to risk and issues related to assigned network project
•    Provide consultancy and advisory services to business, system developer and technology stakeholders for any matter related to assigned project working together with engineering team and project lead
•    Escalation point for all matter relating to assigned project in all phases of the project
•    Delivers high quality solutions for the bank on both internal & external connectivity requirements 
•    Interfacing with engineering and stakeholder team balancing conformance to engineering standard against project requirement
•    Develop a centre of excellence within Network Design and Delivery function
•    Develop influential and trustworthy working relationships with other technology and business peers to achieve performance objectives
•    Value - add to various technology streams by timely and proper engagement and recommending appropriate solutions
•    Develops relationships with IT vendors and partners for the benefit of the bank and business
•    Undertake continuous improvement for the current Network Infrastructure

Qualifications:

•    Min. Bachelor Degree holder, with vast experience in similar role
•    CCNP certification or equivalent

Role Specific Technical Competencies:

•    Routing & Switching, Catalyst, Nexus, ACI
•    Wireless
•    VMWare NSX
•    Firewall
•    DNS
•    SDWAN

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.