Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Digital Asset Platform Lead with deep expertise in blockchain technologies, distributed systems, and enterprise-level architectural design. The ideal candidate will be able to propose robust architectures and effectively communicate rationales, options, and roadmap to both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilize AWS cloud services to design and develop robust blockchain architectures.
• Design secure and performant blockchain infrastructure with high availability.
• Work closely with internal technology stakeholders to optimize smart contract deployment and upgrade processes for the core platform.
• Design and develop the hosting of secured gateways and bridges integrated with the Project team partners.
• Collaborate with CISO to design, implement and operationalize all administration and systems in accordance with bank standards and policies.
• Work closely with the banks selected technology providers to establish a CI/CD pipeline as per Software Release Lifecycle Standards and Policies, and create a DevOps practice and excellence center.
• Design and develop an ITSM control library (Incident, Change, Problem, Performance management) to prepare the project team for launch.
• Create and maintain technical specifications and architectural documentation.
• Ensure quality and reliability in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) practices, compliance with risk appetite, standards, and policies.
• Develop a culture to effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business objectives on time and in full.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in blockchain technologies, distributed systems, and enterprise-level architectural design.
• Proven ability to design and implement cloud-native infrastructure and microservices architecture.
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts and roadmaps to stakeholders.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Knowledge of secure and performant blockchain infrastructure design.
• Familiarity with smart contract deployment and upgrade processes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of ITSM control libraries and incident management.
• Commitment to quality and reliability in IaaC practices.
• Experience in designing and implementing Disaster Recovery plans.
• Strong risk management skills.

Qualifications

Certifications (optional but beneficial):

• Certifications such as Certified Blockchain Expert (CBE), Certified Blockchain Professional (CBP), or similar credentials.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) or similar project management certifications.

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.