Job Summary

Product Specialist is the driver of solution to the business requirement or user journey. The job holder has sound understanding on the product capabilities of the system/platform and able to drive solution with product owner, architect, vendor and supporting technology team. The job holder possesses deep Wealth Journey / WM Advisory knowledge with right skills and experiences to work on product innovation along with team and product vendors. They work with product owner to derive product/system roadmap to deliver fit for purpose capabilities. This person should also be committed to the discovery and development of innovative solutions in an ever-changing digital landscape in banking industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Execution of functional standards and best practices
• Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.
• Prioritize and makes available capacity for technical debt.
• Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
• Adopt and embed the Change Delivery Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.
• Follows the chapter operating model to ensure a system exists to continue to build capability and performance of the chapter.

Skills and Experience

1. At least 12 years of experience in IT industry and 5 years in WM Advisory systems with at least 6 years in People Leader experience.

2. Strong understanding of WM Advisory systems’ architecture, functionality, and capabilities, with hands-on experience in solution design, configuration, customisation, and integration.

3. Prior experience with Finantix Platform will be added advantage.

4. Familiar with MS Dynamics as a product; preferably a functional architect/expert on this product

5. Have Enterprise delivery experiences.

6. Familiar with banking environment & agile practices
7. Strong communication skills and stakeholder engagement skills.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree, or higher, in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

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.