JOB SUMMARY
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead to join our team. This role is critical in shaping and delivering technical solutions across our ventures.  Working alongside our Architecture team, Risk and Enablement team, and Platform Operations, you will lead a team of engineers, and collaborate with external delivery partners and contractors to support our venture teams with their implementations. This role will also support our SCV platform team with technology / engineering expertise to ensure we have appropriate tools and applications available to support our business needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including venture teams, technology team peers and senior leadership, to ensure technical solutions are aligned with business goals and meet technology and ICS governance requirements.

Business
•    Negotiate contracts and engagement terms with vendors, ensuring delivery expectations, service levels, and financials are clearly defined and maintained.
•    Manage relationships and oversee delivery quality from partner delivery vendors, ensuring effective onboarding, delivery performance tracking, and alignment to venture and platform outcomes.
•    Provide oversight of vendor performance, including resource allocation, delivery velocity, quality assurance, and issue resolution.
•    Plan and oversee delivery of technical solutions for ventures and SCV platform
•    Delivery proof-of-concept (PoC) engineering activities using internal and external resources to validate emerging technologies and business opportunities.
•    Oversee a small group of fractional CTOs supporting specific ventures to ensure they are following expected methodologies and delivering expected outcomes.  When required work as a fractional CTO on ventures in early stages of the venture building lifecycle.

Processes
•    Oversee the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions against business requirements, architectural designs and platform strategies, while adhering to organisational SDLC and orchestration requirements, and aligning to Technology and Information and Cyber Security (ICS) governance expectations.

People & Talent  
•    Lead and mentor a small in-house engineering team to plan and deliver solutions for ventures in the areas of UX/UI, frontend, and backend, AI/ML, Blockchain, Web3, cloud engineering, and DevSecOps
•    Be up to date technically and able to engage hands-on in development if required, especially during early-stage builds and/or PoC initiatives.

Risk Management and Governance

Working within the SCV Enterprise Risk Management Framework , ensure solutions are delivered to be compliant with SCV Technology and ICS governance requirements and within SCV Risk Appetite.  

Proactively assess and prioritize activities considering the risk and potential impact.  Communicate assumptions and decisions made in solution delivery that may have impact to Technology and ICS risk.  

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
Ventures, SCV Platform Business users, Operating Leads and Operating Members

Our Ideal Candidate
•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
•    15+ years of relevant technical experience, with at least 7+ years in a team leadership role.
•    Experience working across multiple ventures or product lines simultaneously
Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Experience in leading engineering teams across full stack development including frontend, backend, and UI/UX disciplines
•    Delivery of solutions using emerging technologies such blockchain, Web3, AI/ML and use of AI assisted solution enablement and delivery tools
•    Experience managing and negotiating with third-party vendors, including contract and SLA negotiation
•    Experience overseeing offshore vendor teams, ensuring alignment, delivery velocity, and consistent quality.
•    Hands-on development expertise
•    Experience with venture building or startup environments
•    Understanding of solution architecture, modern development practices, and cloud platforms
•    Communication and stakeholder management
•    Experience working in an agile, fast-paced environment

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.