Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank seeks a Delivery Lead for Prime & Clearing projects. You'll plan, track, report, and collaborate with the Product Owner on Agile plans, manage the backlog, and set sprint goals. Responsibilities include governance, updates, and risk management. Assess risks and changes for decisions, clarify deliverables, and resolve blockers. Strong stakeholder relationships are vital for success. Identify and mitigate issues affecting costs and timelines, and support Project Managers for successful releases. This role requires leadership, communication, and proactive problem-solving. If you're passionate about successful projects in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Prime & Clearing Delivery and the projects which fall within the program remit.
• Ensure overall planning, tracking and reporting of all milestones, tasks and deliverables including inter-dependencies across all work-streams and technology partners are well managed, and provide oversight when other Project Managers have been assigned to any projects..
• Develop, own and manage the plans, backlog and sprint objectives for successful delivery within the Agile framework.
• Prioritising and re-planning with the Product Owner or stakeholders to maximise delivery of business benefits from the capabilities developed.
• Setup the project governance and preparing/presenting quality updates on progress, key risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, constraints and seek their support to remove roadblocks.
• Quantify the impact on time, cost and quality of risks, issues and change requests to the relevant working group or refinement segments, enabling them to make informed decisions and assist in prioritisation or removing blockers.
• Lead the project team providing, working closely with the PO and key stakeholders to ensure deliverables and direction for each project member are clear, and facilitate the removal of blockers preventing the overall project team from achieving the project milestones/objectives.
• Develop and maintain relationships with Product Owners, key stakeholders and technology partners to ensure successful project delivery
• Proactively identify and mitigate issues/risks which may have an impact on costs/delivery timelines, and raise these to the required governance forums.
• Provide direction and help to the Project Managers or Squads working on OTC Clearing when they face blockers or issues.
• Contributing to consistent successful change releases with zero tolerance for failed or emergency releases.
• Working with the delivery team to ensure solutions agreed are scalable, in alignment with strategic architecture and incorporates risk-based considerations.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years of working on medium to large projects which involve full front-to-back trade execution to post-trade activities for the Cleared Derivatives business
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and meet tight & stringent deadlines
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of Prime Services and Cleared Derivatives (OTC Cleared and Exchange Traded Derivatives) which are traded/offered by both the SCB House and Prime Business Areas. 
• Financial Markets and a good understanding of Straight Through Processing (STP) flows from front to back office systems
• Experience using Cleared Derivatives Back Office System, eg Ion XTP or Ransys, FIS GMI, UBIX, Clearvision
• Fluent in ADO or relevant workflow tools to track the project backlog, milestones and timelines
• Experience in working on multiple project portfolios, scheduling, resources planning, ensuring projects are completed at a high level of quality, within projected budgets, scopes and schedules.
• Fluent in Confluence or relevant tools to document the results of analysis in a structured and consistent manner
• Skilled in analysing and documenting detailed data mapping/lineage tables, diagrams and Data Dictionaries to facilitate data flow and integration across multiple applications.
• Microsoft Excel

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.