Job Summary

•    Standard Chartered operates at enterprise scale across multiple markets in a regulated environment. This role is a foundational leader within the Technology COO team, designed to sit above individual domains and provide the portfolio, execution and commercial governance mechanisms that enable the Group CIO organisation to deliver outcomes at speed with control alignment.
•    The role operates as a neutral integrator - credible with business and technology stakeholders alike - and reduces friction across domains through transparent decisioning, disciplined execution cadence, and evidence-led trade-offs.
•    In practice, the role functions as the Group CIO organisation's direction-setting and integration capability: shaping the forward agenda, uplifting the quality of divisional CIO plans, and translating priorities into coherent roadmaps, commercial levers and selective execution interventions. It is designed to increase GCIO credibility with Group businesses and functions through concise executive briefs, clear trade-off decisioning and measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

•    Oversee and drive commercial and contract governance to optimise strategic vendor alignment and vendor scanning, renewal decisions, and cost‑out opportunities.
•    Lead Enterprise Quality Engineering (with the Testing CoE,, AI-SDLC as one stream) to improve release confidence, speed and control across critical delivery pathways.
•    Own technology-side commercial and contract governance to align vendor strategy and renewals to portfolio and architecture direction, reduce value leakage and unlock material cost-out and reinvestment capacity.

Strategy
•    Set and steward the Group CIO organisation forward agenda and integrated technology direction - converting business priorities into a coherent multi-year agenda, investment choices, sequencing and executive narrative.
•    Translate direction into executable portfolio roadmaps and master scheduling - managing dependencies, capacity constraints and dispensations, and aligning with Technology & Architecture and other Technology & Operations verticals.
•    Fit-for-growth / simplification: disciplined cost management, platform rationalisation and productivity uplift.
•    Enterprise operating leverage programmes : aligning GCIO technology direction, architecture and delivery mobilisation to support bank-wide (multi-region and cross-functional) simplification, scalable service models and responsible AI-enabled operations.
•    Digital journeys and client experience: improving speed-to-market for priority change while maintaining control alignment.
•    Responsible use of data and AI: industrialising AI-enabled delivery practices with governance, traceability and risk controls.

Business
•    Enable Group strategic programmes through an aligned GCIO response, mobilisation model, and outcomes tracking.
•    Lead Enterprise Quality Engineering (with the Testing CoE as one stream) to improve release confidence, speed and control across critical delivery pathways.
•    Own technology-side commercial and contract governance to align vendor strategy and renewals to portfolio and architecture direction, reduce value leakage and unlock material cost-out and reinvestment capacity.
•    Own prioritisation and investment gating mechanisms, including sequencing, dependency management and feasibility checks.
•    Create and maintain integrated roadmaps connecting priorities to technology outcomes, risks and measurable value.
•    Identify investment synergies and rationalisation opportunities across domains (reuse, standardisation, decommissioning).
•    Lead benefits realisation discipline and Finance-credible reporting; ensure decisions are evidence-led.
•    Provide scenario modelling for portfolio trade-offs (capacity, funding, sequencing) to support executive decisioning.
•    Own technology‑side commercial governance to align vendor strategy to platform direction and extract value.

Processes
•    Define and uphold integrated portfolio and governance processes across intake, prioritisation, delivery, controls, and service readiness.
•    Establish operating model patterns, business architecture guardrails, and portfolio governance artefacts across the GCIO team.
•    Lead execution governance, including performance metrics, cadence management, intervention frameworks, and risk/control integration.
•    AI‑enabled engineering governance, and vendor/SI delivery models.

People & Talent 
•    Build and develop high‑performing teams across portfolio, execution, commercial governance, delivery enablement, and QE.
•    Establish capability frameworks and communities of practice to uplift standards.
•    Embed a culture of accountability, transparency, continuous improvement, and talent development.

Risk Management
•    Own prioritisation, investment gating, and risk‑aligned decision processes.
•    Run GCIO interlocks with Architecture, Cyber/IS, Data & AI, and other T&O verticals for scheduling, dependency resolution, and architectural alignment.
•    Manage exception/dispensation mechanisms with defined risk controls and convergence paths.
•    Drive interventions, recovery plans, and escalation for at‑risk initiatives.
•    Reduce quality‑related and governance‑related findings through strong controls and audit alignment.

Governance 
•    Lead enterprise portfolio & investment governance, including sequencing, feasibility checks, integrated roadmaps, and benefits realisation.
•    Own execution governance rhythms and ensure objective, evidence‑led decisioning.
•    Coordinate enterprise governance inputs, regulatory standards, and committee requirements.
•    Ensure compliance with the Group Code of Conduct, regulatory expectations, and enterprise governance standards.

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
•    GCIOs, FM CIO, Cash CIO
•    Supply Chain Management
•    GCIO Engineering
•    Business – CIB, WRB, Functions
•    Architecture

Skills and Experience

•    Technology Experience 
•    Business Architecture
•    Strategy
•    Delivery
•    Portfolio management
•    Stakeholder Influence

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Postgraduate degree in Business and/or Technology (required).
•    Extensive leadership experience delivering large, multi‑region technology and business programmes (S$350m+).
•    Strong business and financial acumen; proven ability to create evidence‑based investment cases and executive‑level narratives.
•    Deep expertise in technology‑side commercial and contract governance, including renewals, vendor performance, consolidation, and value realisation.
•    Broad technology management capability across IT strategy, digital strategy, enterprise architecture, AI‑enabled delivery, and technology asset lifecycle management.
•    Experience with ITIL, Agile/Lean delivery, and risk/control or vendor governance preferred.

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.