Job Summary

The Cyber Platform Engineering Lead will be a senior technical and strategic leader responsible for delivering the bank’s unified cyber and financial crime monitoring platform. Working under the Head of Threat Detection Platform, this role will bridge engineering excellence, process maturity, and organizational collaboration to deliver a data-driven, cloud-native platform that underpins threat detection, fraud prevention, and financial crime analytics across the enterprise.

The role requires strong technical expertise combined with leadership capabilities to guide a distributed team, shape strategy, enforce governance, and drive adoption of secure, scalable engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate the Head of Threat Detection Platform’s vision into a clear engineering roadmap with measurable objectives.
• Define and execute the multi-year platform modernization strategy, enabling unified telemetry ingestion and advanced analytics for Financial Crime and Cyber domains.
• Ensure alignment between technical strategy and business outcomes, emphasizing automation, resilience, and AI enablement.
• Identify emerging technologies (e.g., Delta Sharing, GenAI, streaming analytics) that can accelerate detection and operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in platform architecture, adopting best practices from modern cloud and data ecosystems.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, from architecture and design to deployment and operational readiness.
• Standardize ingestion and transformation processes using OCSF/Avro schemas and DevSecOps pipelines (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible).
• Implement continuous monitoring and observability frameworks across Databricks, Kafka, and cloud workloads.
• Embed secure eSDLC practices, ensuring compliance with internal audit and regulatory controls.
• Drive process automation to improve delivery efficiency, incident response, and data onboarding lifecycle.
• Lead and mentor a global team of engineers and platform specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Build and maintain a strong engineering community of practice within the Cyber Platform Engineering organization.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum 8 years of experience in cybersecurity or threat detection.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, CEH) are an advantage.
• Previous experience in Linux/Windows administration or DevOps roles is beneficial.
• Strong expertise in Splunk SPL and Microsoft Defender for rule and content development.
• Proficiency in SQL and Data Lake platforms for detection rule creation.
• Good understanding of security threats across Windows, Linux, Cloud, and Container environments.
• Scripting experience (Bash / Python / SQL / APIs).
• Knowledge of attack patterns, mitigation methods, and threat prevention techniques.
• Experience in automation or DevSecOps within AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across diverse teams.
• High attention to detail and ability to manage complex projects.
• Proactive, adaptable, and results-driven mindset.
• Integrity, accountability, and a commitment to the organization’s values.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

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.