Job Summary

•    The successful candidate will be equally comfortable with project planning, technical governance processes, scrum master activities, solving blockers and impediments for the teams, knitting together technical architectures, and communicating decisions effectively with senior stakeholders. 
•    Above all, we seek a candidate with the right attitude: opiniated and optimistic yet pragmatic and hungry to collaborate.

Overview
•    Lead and coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams in an Scrum environment
•    Serve as both technical delivery leader and Scrum Master, ensuring successful project execution
•    Enable adoption and implementation of Generative AI tools and frameworks in development workflows

Required experience and capabilities
Tech Project Leader
•    Manage end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team software projects from inception to production
•    Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders
•    Develop and maintain detailed project plans, tracking dependencies, risks, and milestones
•    Coordinate cross-functional teams including developers, data engineers, QA, and product managers
•    Facilitate communication between technical teams and business stakeholders
•    Manage project budgets and resource allocation across teams - Track and report on sprint velocity, burndown, and team health metrics
•    Facilitate backlog refinement and ensure stories meet Definition of Ready

Managed Risk & Issues
•    Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks proactively
•    Implement quality gates and ensure projects meet acceptance criteria
•    Manage change requests and assess impact on timelines/scope
•    Ensure proper testing strategies and quality assurance processes

•    Various team and program frameworks, Scrum experience and relevant industry certifications are advantage (PSM, LeSS, SAFe, Srum, Lean, PMP)
•    Demonstrated ability create transparency and monitor effectiveness around good planning and engineering practices through squad data driven analysis and conversations
•    Adaptive to changing situations and enjoy collaborating with global teams in a diverse multi-cultural environment 
•    Passionate for solving challenging problems and learning new skills
•    Enjoys wearing different hats of Teacher, Mentor, Coach & Technologist
•    Support the Product Owner and other stakeholders while keeping program and scope on track
•    Demonstrated experience removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver and improve
•    Good understanding on Release Management, DevOps, Engineering Practices, Quality & Test strategies
•    Knowledge and/or experience with various successful techniques: Scrum, Kanban, User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration
•    Previous experience working with Cloud and DevOps teams will be highly valued
•    Excellent communication, stakeholder management and negotiation skills
•    Highly self-motivated and able to work well under pressure to manage competing demands, complex situations, people and technology
•    Knowledge of Banking ecosystems - preferably in Risk or Corporate & Institutional Clients domain with understanding of associated applications, complex systems interfaces, products, process, and Risk regulatory framework/models/reporting
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or relevant disciplines 
•    If you’re a bright mind with big ambitions, we’ll actively encourage you to fulfil your potential. Thanks to our rich and varied international footprint, we can offer exciting opportunities working across different countries and cultures. Apply Now and take the next step in fulfilling your potential.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
Awareness and understanding of the CCIB & T&I Transformation Strategy and how it and our teams are measured, which includes coaching stakeholders when needed on the why’s and how of various agile approaches and techniques 

Business
Aware of impact on the business users and our clients that are product is built for – focus should be creating value quickly, however safely, sustainably so it scales. 

Processes
•    Manage end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team software projects from inception to production
•    Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders
•    Develop and maintain detailed project plans, tracking dependencies, risks, and milestones
•    Coordinate cross-functional teams including developers, data engineers, QA, and product managers
•    Facilitate communication between technical teams and business stakeholders
•    Manage project budgets and resource allocation across teams

People & Talent 
•    Adaptive to changing situations and enjoy collaborating with global teams in a diverse multi-cultural environment 
•    Passionate for solving challenging problems and learning new skills
•    Enjoys wearing different hats of Teacher, Mentor, Coach & Technologist
•    Support the Product Owner and other stakeholders while building a trusting and safe environment for the team where problems can be raised without fear, blame, retribution or judgement
•    Excellent communication, stakeholder management and negotiation skills
•    Highly self-motivated and able to work well under pressure to manage competing demands, complex situations, people and technology

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks proactively
•    Implement quality gates and ensure projects meet acceptance criteria
•    Manage change requests and assess impact on timelines/scope
•    Ensure proper testing strategies and quality assurance processes

Governance 
Multi team / scaled scrum approaches to managing Product Governance and Bank Project Management in conjunction with your stakeholders and team  

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 the Agile team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Technology Leadership
•    Other Platform Delivery Teams within our portfolio and our integration partners
•    Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Users/User Groups

Other Responsibilities
•    Lead and enable adoption of GenAI-powered IDEs and development tools in program (GitHub Copilot)
•    Drive experimentation and use of AI for SDLC - code review, testing, and documentation

Qualifications

•    Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
•    Safe Program Consultant (SPC) or Safe Agilist
•    Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2
•    AI/ML certifications (AWS Certified Machine Learning, Google Cloud AI, etc.)
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or relevant disciplines 

Skills and Experience

•    Scrum / Scrum Master
•    Other Agile Techniques (Kanban, XP, etc)
•    Facilitation
•    Team and Individual Coaching
•    Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe, LeSS, etc)
•    Modern Engineering and Test Approaches
•    Product Backlog Management
•    Release Management in Regulated Bank
•    Credit and Or Risk Business within a Banking Eco-System Knowledge & Experience

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.