Job Summary

Experienced mobile technology leader responsible for the technical direction, engineering standards and delivery governance of the mobile banking platform across Android, iOS and Huawei/HarmonyOS ecosystems. The role owns the mobile platform architecture, quality, security, resilience and release readiness across multiple squads and markets, ensuring scalable, secure and maintainable mobile experiences for clients.

Key Responsibilities

•    Own the technical direction, engineering standards and platform roadmap for the mobile banking application across Android, iOS and Huawei/HarmonyOS ecosystems.

•    Ensure mobile solutions are secure, scalable, performant, accessible and resilient across supported devices, operating systems and app distribution channels.

•    Partner with product, architecture, security and platform teams to sequence backlog items through a mobile engineering lens, balancing client impact, technical risk and platform sustainability.

•    Govern mobile technical debt, including OS version support, device fragmentation, deprecated libraries, WebView compatibility, performance bottlenecks and maintainability risks.

•    Review and approve solution intent for mobile platform changes, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, security controls and eSDLC requirements.

•    Present mobile architecture decisions, platform standards and market-impacting changes to the architecture review forum.

•    Drive mobile release readiness across markets, including app store dependencies, regression risk, environment readiness, observability, incident learnings and rollback considerations.

•    Collaborate with Security Champions to identify and implement mobile security controls, including app hardening, secure storage, certificate pinning, biometric flows, RASP and jailbreak/root detection.

Business

•    Develop and drive the mobile platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Domain Tech Lead, architecture, security, product and market technology teams.

Processes

•    Regularly review squad metrics for predictability, quality, delivery flow, mobile platform health and squad sentiment, and support teams to improve value delivery.

•    Work with mobile engineering chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship, reusable platform capabilities, consistent mobile standards and reduced duplication across markets.

People & Talent

•    Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community. 

•    Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives

Governance

•    Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production

•    The controls cover: Requirements, Architecture (see Architecture Review Forum below), Security (see Cyber Security Services below), Development, Testing, IT Resilience, Service Level Management, Tech Operations & Support, Release Management, SW Configuration Management

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.

Skills and Experience

•    Strong mobile engineering leadership experience across Android and iOS platforms, with working knowledge of Huawei/HarmonyOS ecosystem considerations.

•    Experience with native mobile architectures, mobile platform governance, SDK integration, app lifecycle management and hybrid mobile/WebView patterns.

•    Strong understanding of Android/Kotlin/Java, iOS/Swift, mobile build pipelines, app signing, certificates, app store release processes and mobile CI/CD.

•    Experience managing mobile non-functional requirements, including performance, accessibility, security, observability, resilience, compatibility and supportability.

•    Knowledge of secure mobile application design, including secure storage, biometric authentication, certificate pinning, app hardening, RASP and jailbreak/root detection.

•    Understanding of API integration patterns for mobile applications, including REST/JSON, authentication, latency management, offline/error handling and network resilience.

•    Experience leading engineering teams in Agile delivery, quality engineering, automated testing, DevOps and production release governance.

Qualifications

•    BSC in Computer Science or relevant certifications 

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.