Product Owner - Partnerships

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Job Summary

We are looking for a Product Owner (PO), who will be an empowered decision maker, responsible for maximizing the business value of the work of the Squad. The PO will own and manage product backlog and is ultimately accountable for the successful delivery of the Partnership build & platform.

Our group delivers customers journeys related to Open Banking & FinTech Partnerships. These customer journeys are delivered using Open APIs, File Transfer Programs, and customer facing digital channels such as mobile & internet banking applications. Our external stakeholders are digital banking leads from our markets, banking regulators & large FinTech companies.

Our ideal candidate will have following attributes :

Is from fintech or financial services sector

Has 10+ years of experience

Has technical background having played development role for few years

Has extensive knowledge of APIs

Understands basics of AWS based cloud computing & application containerization

Can write SQL queries

Can make Pivot tables in Excel

Can draw system interactions & data flows diagrams

Is a master communicator - speaking & writing.

Can report progress using PowerPoint to management team

Can breakdown work into epics, features, and user stories

Can lead a product squad of 10-15 squad members

Can comprehend policy documents of the bank & regulators

Familiar with basics of project financials - Capex, Opex, and Accruals

Key Responsibilities

Strategy : Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy for open banking and partnerships. Align product strategy to the same.

Business : Awareness and understanding of the corporate plan targets for partnerships including new customers, ending net receivables, revenue, and operating profit

Processes : Awareness and understanding of governance processes such as delivery risk assessment & change risk assessment, and operational risk assessment of the project

People & Talent : Lead the squad through example and build the appropriate culture and values.

Risk Management : Identify key risks & issues for project and put in place appropriate controls and measures. Timely closure of cybersecurity (ICS) risks

Governance : Adherence to project governance framework including executing project on budget, providing accurate budget forecasts, Azure DevOps (ADO) user story hygiene, allocation of timesheet, ensuring pre-Go Live checks such as architecture & tech council approvals, SIA, UAT sign off, and updating Customer Go-Live (CGL) in project management system (Clarity).

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.

Key stakeholders

Collaborate with digital leads of FinTech companies to design system integrations for partnership business

Collaborate with Banking regulators on matters related to open banking regulations, and business process outsourcing for partnerships

Work with Hive lead, WRB Head & Digital leads of our markets to meet partnership targets & open banking commitments

Skills and Experience

SQL

API

Cloud Computing

Application Containerization

Encryption & Digital Signature

Excel

Qualifications

EDUCATION

BCA, MCA, B-Tech (Computer Science), or MBA

CERTIFICATIONS

Agile Practitioner, Certified Product Owner, AWS Certification, or Kubernetes Certification

LANGUAGES

English

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.