AVP, Chapter Lead - Development

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Job Summary AVP - Chapter Lead - Development : FCSO TM, is to lead a multi competency capability, encompassing vendor management, architecture, and business solution. The role will be responsible for delivering scalable, resilient, fault tolerant solutions from partner vendors. Formulate and deliver an end-to-end technology strategy in collaboration with the FCSO Product for all current and future technology requirements of the organisation. Consider multiple levers in the development and execution of the technology strategy including client experience, time to market, stability, resilience, scalability, cost efficiency, new ways of working etc.

Key Responsibilities Strategy

• Define and drive the Group's technology strategy roadmap and agenda with focus on business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations. Develop deep relationships with key business stakeholders and decision makers to drive cloud adoption.
• Build and foster an engineering excellence culture through leadership and direction. Build an engineering and system thinking mindset with values such as fast feedback, repeatability, simplicity, and clean code. Drive a modern approach to engineering excellence, ensuring fast, frequent and high-quality value delivery. With thought Leadership, evangelism, and upskilling the workforce on cloud, architecture, engineering and open banking and API.
• Industrialise engineering best practices to enhance software quality, embedding resiliency in system performance, and enabling the rapid recovery from incidents and threats. Proactively improving the technology risk posture. Improve cost efficiency - drive efficiency by identifying opportunities to rationalise to a fewer best of breed platforms which provides strategic business capability and aggressively decommission redundant applications. Contribute to investment planning / prioritisation with the businesses and T&I for the FCSO TM portfolio. Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape across Group Functions.
• Empower the engineers within the delivery teams with the right tools and practice to improve SDLC process efficiency - with focus on quality assurance, developer experiences, automation and performance engineering, with speed, scalability and stability in mind. Enforce and streamline sound development practices. Establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice and support.
• As a key member of the Management team, develop the strategic direction and roadmap for FCSO Technology while adopting agile practices; aligning with Business & IT Strategy, Bank's Digital Agenda and Portfolio Investment priorities. Proactively advise the senior management team on the emerging technologies and transformation trends that are most relevant to the company's goals and evolving needs. Shape the future of technology, maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community.
• Envisage and align the portfolio to the growing technology needs & capabilities like Cloud, AI etc. Determine and ensure optimal cost of delivery of programs. Support Business and FCSO Operations by leveraging technology to streamline processes, enhance productivity, enable straight-through processing & zero touch, reduce risk and improve controls part of FCSO deliveries.

Business

Processes

People & Talent

Risk Management

Governance

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Key stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

Skills and Experience

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.

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