Job Summary

Lead the Trade Processing Platform Services organisation, providing the common platforms, engineering capabilities, delivery services and technology foundations that enable successful execution across Trade Processing & Control Technology.
•    Own the strategy, architecture and roadmap for shared engineering platforms, developer tooling, integration capabilities, AI engineering services, DevOps, observability and enterprise technology standards across Trade Processing Technology.
•    Drive engineering excellence, platform standardisation, reusability and industrialisation, enabling product-aligned teams to deliver faster, safer and more efficiently.
•    Accelerate platform modernisation, AI adoption, automation and cloud enablement across the organisation, reducing duplication, improving productivity and strengthening engineering quality.
•    Provide leadership for cross-functional capabilities including solution engineering, architecture governance, engineering productivity, release management, platform reliability and technical transformation.
•    Act as the senior technology partner to capability heads, enterprise architecture, infrastructure and engineering leadership to ensure consistent execution against strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

•    The role holder leads others and is accountable for engineering enablement, platform strategy, technology standards, productivity improvement, AI adoption and organisational capability across Trade Processing & Control Technology.

Platform Strategy and Engineering Enablement
•    Define and execute the strategy for shared platform capabilities that support all Trade Processing & Control Technology teams, ensuring consistent engineering practices, technology standards and delivery outcomes.

Shared Platform Ownership
•    Own common technology services and reusable platform capabilities, including workflow frameworks, integration services, API platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, observability, runtime services and engineering accelerators.

AI Engineering and Developer Productivity
•    Lead adoption of AI-enabled software engineering practices and developer productivity tooling across the organisation, delivering measurable improvements in software quality, engineering velocity, operational performance and cost efficiency.

Architecture and Technology Governance
•    Establish technology standards, architecture guardrails and engineering principles that promote platform consistency, reuse, security, maintainability and long-term sustainability.

DevOps, SRE and Operational Excellence
•    Drive adoption of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and platform engineering practices, improving service reliability, deployment quality, recoverability, observability and operational resilience.

Modernisation and Platform Transformation
•    Accelerate platform modernisation through application simplification, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction and engineering automation, enabling scalable and cost-effective technology solutions.

Delivery Excellence and Transformation Execution
•    Provide delivery leadership for cross-functional initiatives, ensuring consistent execution, effective dependency management and successful delivery of strategic transformation outcomes across multiple capability domains.

Enterprise Leadership and Stakeholder Management
•    Work closely with capability heads, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Risk and Enterprise Technology teams to align technology strategies, standards and transformation initiatives.
People and Talent
•    Build and lead a high-performing organisation of platform engineers, architects, AI engineering specialists, DevOps practitioners and delivery professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence.
 

Motivations

The ideal candidate is motivated by enabling others to succeed at scale. They are energised by building common platforms, engineering capabilities and technology foundations that accelerate delivery, improve quality and unlock organisational productivity.
They thrive on solving enterprise-wide engineering challenges, driving technology standardisation, advancing AI-enabled software engineering and creating reusable capabilities that deliver lasting impact across multiple business domains.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of experience in development with Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems, with good experience in a leadership role.  
• Extensive experience leading engineering, platform or architecture organisations within Markets or similarly complex transaction-processing environments. 
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-wide platform modernisation, engineering transformation, AI adoption and technology simplification initiatives. 
• Strong experience building shared technology capabilities that improve engineering productivity, platform resilience, technology reuse and delivery effectiveness.

 • Demonstrated success establishing engineering standards, architecture governance, DevOps and modern software delivery practices at scale.
•  Experience influencing senior technology and business stakeholders, prioritising investment decisions and leading global engineering organisations through strategic change. 
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, software engineering, operational resilience, technology risk management and AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Certifications / Qualifications (only where mandatory):    
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Languages: Business Communication

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Software Product Business Knowledge
•    Technology Strategy, Innovation and AI Enablement
•    Technology Platform and Engineering Leadership

•    People Leadership and Team Culture
•    Strategic Stakeholder and Portfolio Management
•    Operational Resilience and Service Management

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.

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