JOB SUMMARY
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
- Define and execute the technology roadmap for SCPAY, aligned with business and ITO strategy.
- Lead delivery of global payments and clearing initiatives, including new capabilities, enhancements, and regulatory changes.
- Ensure solutions align with modern architecture, scalability, stability, and performance standards.
Business
- Work closely with Payments Business teams to translate investment decisions into design, development, implementation, and handover to operations.
- Balance time, cost, quality, and risk while delivering measurable business value.Support commercialization, client experience improvements, defect resolution, and continuous system improvements.
Processes
Responsible for the end-to-end deliveries of the technology portfolio comprising key business product areas such as Payments & Clearing. Own technology delivery of projects and programs across global SCB markets that
- develop/enhance core product capabilities
- ensure compliance to Regulatory mandates
- support operational improvements, process efficiencies and zero touch agenda
- build payments platform to align with latest technology & architecture trends, improved stability and scale
People & Talent (Non-People Manager Scope)
- Contribute to building a high-performing technology culture.
- Support capability building, learning, and knowledge sharing.
Risk, Governance & Conduct
- Ensure adherence to risk management, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Proactively identify and remediate technology risks.
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Demonstrate strong conduct aligned with Group Values and Code of Conduct.
Key Stakeholders
- Solution Architect – SCPAY
- SCPAY – Programme Managers
- Group Payments Product Development Heads
Our Ideal Candidates Should Have:-
Proven experience analysing end-to-end payment flows across card schemes, ACH, SWIFT, or real-time payment rails. Strong ability to elicit, document, and validate business requirements through use cases, process maps, and user stories. Proficient in SQL and data analysis tools to interrogate transaction data, identify trends, and support root-cause investigations. Excellent stakeholder management skills with a track record of bridging technical teams and business owners to deliver compliant, scalable payment solutions.
Technical Skills
- Data Science
- Agile process and Scrum Methodology
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies
- JIRA Knowledge
Core Competencies
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in global, geographically dispersed teams.
- Action-oriented, collaborative, and customer-focused.
- Sound decision-making, adaptability, and learning mindset.
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.
