Job Summary

Accountable for the successful delivery of strategic technology projects and programs, ensuring outcomes are delivered safely, compliantly, on time, within budget, while driving governance excellence, financial discipline, portfolio transparency, AI-enabled delivery transformation, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Program Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology transformation projects and programs
• Manage multiple projects, workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholders.
• Develop and execute project plans, schedules, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure delivery meets agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, and business outcomes.
• Act as Program Manager for strategic initiatives requiring coordination across multiple teams and domains.

Governance, Risk & Stakeholder Management

• Establish project and program governance, reporting, and control frameworks.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change controls.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, security, and internal governance requirements.
• Provide executive reporting and steer senior stakeholder engagement and decision-making.

Financial Management

• Own project and program budgets, forecasts, funding plans, and financial reporting.
• Manage CapEx/OpEx investment portfolios and ensure delivery within approved funding.
• Support business case development, investment approvals, and benefits realization.
• Monitor financial performance, forecast accuracy, and proactively mitigate budget risks.

Portfolio, ADO & Clarity Management

• Drive project governance, portfolio visibility, and delivery reporting through Azure DevOps (ADO) and Clarity PPM.
• Manage project backlogs, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, KPIs, and executive dashboards.
• Maintain delivery and financial data quality to support portfolio governance and investment decisions.
• Champion PMO best practices, project management maturity, and reporting automation.

AI, Automation & Delivery Transformation

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled project and portfolio management practices.
• Leverage Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, VFS, AI analytics, automation, and reporting tools to improve efficiency and delivery performance.
• Implement automated executive reporting, portfolio dashboards, and governance insights.
• Utilize predictive analytics to improve forecasting, capacity planning, risk identification, and delivery predictability.
• Drive data-driven decision making through KPI, OKR, and portfolio performance analytics.
• Lead initiatives that automate manual PMO activities, reporting, and governance processes.
• Promote innovation and modern delivery practices across project portfolios.
• Enhance portfolio transparency, productivity, and operational efficiency through AI-powered insights.

Vendor & Team Leadership

• Manage vendors, suppliers, and strategic delivery partners.
• Lead cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Mentor project managers and team members while fostering a high-performance delivery culture.
• Drive accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 12+ years of experience in Project Management with good to have PMP certified, Scrum Expert
• Managing Azure DevOps (ADO) boards, delivery governance, milestone tracking, dependencies, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar project budgets and investment portfolios.
• Strong executive stakeholder management and governance experience.
• Experience within complex, regulated enterprise environments.
• Using Clarity PPM for portfolio management, resource planning, forecasting, and financial governance.
• Managing project/program financials, investment planning, CapEx/OpEx budgets, and benefits realization.
• Leveraging AI, automation, Microsoft Copilot, and analytics tools to modernize project delivery and reporting.
• Leading large-scale technology transformation programs and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Driving PMO maturity, delivery excellence, reporting automation, and data-driven decision making.

• Strong expertise in solutioning & architecture design, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions
• Deep understanding of SDLC and Agile/Lean methodologies, with experience delivering complex initiatives in Agile environments
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills, with experience managing global cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving mindset, with the ability to quickly learn and apply emerging technologies
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent field

Role Specific Technical Competencies :

• Project Management
• Program Management
• AI & ADO
• Stakeholder Management

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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