Job Summary

• The Metadata Delivery Lead, Group CDO is a key role, in which the role holder will have opportunity to drive the effective delivery of the Group’s Refreshed Data Management Strategy. The Mercury Programme is a pan-bank, multi-year programme, led by the Group Chief Data Office in partnership with the Group’s Business and Function CDO, COO and 2nd line of defence teams, and focused on ensuring long-term and tangible improvement across all data risk sub-types across all lines of business, functions and geographies. Mercury’s ultimate objective is to sustainably reduce data risk for the bank, aligning with our overall strategy, enabling our business, supporting our clients, and meeting our regulatory requirements. 
• Mercury will effect this change as the delivery vehicle for the detailed design and execution of the Bank’s Data Management Strategy end-to-end, building central capabilities and end-to-end processes, for prioritised and phased implementation. Capabilities span all aspects of the Data Management Strategy, from our approach to identification and governance of critical data, through to operating model, data architecture and control frameworks, as well as our approach to data sovereignty horizon risk and data literacy. 
• The Metadata Delivery Lead, Group CDO  is responsible for leading the execution of the data governance strategy re-designed under Program Mercury. The role will lead and steer the implementation of the CDE Governance Framework to ensure remediation of existing CDEs, or the capture of new ones, effectively avoids or removes silos, bringing standardization and consistency across all use cases. The CDE Data Governance Delivery Lead will build strong relationships with senior leadership, project managers, and cross-functional teams to drive alignment on change initiatives work closely with cross-functional teams, data stewards as well other workstream’s delivery leads to ensure that critical data elements are accurately defined, maintained, and utilized effectively across the organization

About our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Responsibilities

• Be a change agent for the data governance strategy of critical data elements, in line with the newly designed CDE Identification and governance framework.
• Develops, leads, prioritises and manages delivery so that Programme timeframes, KPIs and Milestones are achieved
• Establish governance frameworks to monitor and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple change programs
• Identify, track, and report delivery and governance risks from Mercury workstream leads and programme leadership.
• Establish mitigation and resolution plans for programme risks and track them to completion.
• Provide transparent reporting on programmes risks to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct thorough assessments to identify the impact of changes on people, processes, technology, and culture within the organization.
• Design and implement communication plans tailored to different stakeholder groups, ensuring transparency and buy-in throughout the change process in close collaboration with the ED, Global Lead Critical Data Workstream
• Identify potential resistance to change and develop strategies to mitigate it, fostering an environment of collaboration and openness.
• Collaborate with various Business and Functions to ensure seamless integration of change initiatives across the group

• Define OKRs and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of change initiatives and make data-driven adjustments as necessary in close collaboration with the ED, Global Lead Critical Data Workstream
• Facilitate data governance forums and working groups to drive alignment and accountability.
• In collaboration with Workstream 6 (Know your data), develop and deliver training programs to increase awareness and understanding of data governance principles and the importance of critical data elements.
• Provide guidance and support to data stewards and other stakeholders on CDE data governance-related matters. Support the eventual implementation of Agentic AI to enhance consistency of data governance around CDEs and boost data stewards efficiency
• Apply modern clusterization techniques to identify, define and govern critical data elements in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Ensure proper documentation and metadata management for all critical data elements
• Supported by business analysts, measures data quality issues in the form of IMR and/or ERRs and/or S166s pre-changes and monitors their development, providing feedback on the design efficacy of the new CDE data governance strategy to the ED, Global Lead Critical Data Workstream
• Ensure that data governance practices for critical data elements comply with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Ensure that the new data governance strategy implementation does not break regulatory compliance, including but not limited to BCBS239 compliance

Our Ideal Candidate

Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or a related field
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data quality management, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Excellent understanding of GSIFI Regulatory Reporting across Finance and Risk, including BCBS239
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with AI use cases applications to data governance, including Agentic AI, a plus
• Experience with data governance tools and technologies is a plus.
• Experience and understanding of logical data model design and implementation

Qualification 

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data Governance Frameworks
• Data Quality Management
• Data Analytics – 3 components (Data preparation, data analysis, decision making)
• Project planning and coordination
• Stakeholder Management
• Facilitation

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.

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