Job Summary

•    Manage the application release process, ADO pipeline and artifacts collection, to ensure the release follow and compliant with Bank standards.
•    Support tech delivery lead in coordinating and managing technical related tasks and activities.
•    Assist Solution Intent and architecture review.
•    Coordinate with global tech and up/down stream development teams to deliver the project needs.
•    Coordinate with Vendors to ensure vendor’s solution meet Bank standards.
•    Support delivery lead to monitor technology delivery progress.
•    Managing IT projects, such as new infra onboarding and environment refreshment, ICS remediation (e.g. Database Encryption, HashiCorp integration etc.) 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy*
•    Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business*
•    Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
Processes*
•    Responsible for the system architecture, development, build and deployment processes of the resilience solutions to be delivered.
Risk Management*
•    The ability to interpret the Group’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.
Governance*
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Lead the  [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
•    Serve as a Director of the Board
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association 

Key stakeholders*

•    CN Business Teams: WRB, CIB, Functions
•    CN Operations Teams
•    Group/ CN Application Development & Support Teams 

Skills and Experience

Knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript
Web frameworks including React, Next.js, Vue.js
Experience with Agile / Scrum delivery methodology and related tools
Experience with microservices, API-first, event-driven, agent-based architecture and design
Knowledge in DevOps – CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), orchestration (Ansible/Salt)
Knowledge of different aspects of service design: including messaging protocols and behaviour, caching strategies and software design practices
Knowledge of infrastructure (networking, hypervisors, storage, security) - experience working with a private cloud is a plus
Experience with data visualization tools such as Kibana and Grafana
Experience with AI/ML

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree or above
•    Hands-on experience of programming language like Java or Python, ansible, etc.
•    Linux & Window & container platform operation experience
•    Network & firewall basic knowledge
•    Deep understanding project life-cycle 
•    Familiar with DevOps (ADO) process and release management
•    Familiar with vendor management
•    Familiar with project management
•    Strong oral and written communication skills in English
•    Solid communication and stakeholder management is preferred. 
•    Strong and deep understanding banking industry business knowledge is preferred

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.