Job Summary
- Standard Chartered needs a Hive Tech Lead to drive the success of the combined Treasury Markets and Intraday Liquidity journey. This role sits within Treasury Technology team and will work closely with Treasury COO, Treasury Services, Treasury Markets, FM Technology and Treasury Technology teams.
- The Hive Tech Lead will be accountable to drive technology strategy, project delivery, process, people agenda, risk and governance of the journey.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
- Awareness of SCB’s group strategy and steer hive strategy to achieve group outcomes
- Alignment of technology strategy to business strategy
- Management and measurement of strategic outcomes
- Align T-M/IDL Hive activities towards Technology Strategy/ Scorecard
Business
- Delivery of strategic technology systems for IDL and Treasury Markets
- Drive effectiveness and efficiencies of T-M/IDL Hive to achieve business outcomes
- Awareness of the impact of T-M and IDL processes to the bank’s business
- Ensures timely and stable running of systems owned by the hive
Processes
- Implement systems operations processes leveraging the disciplines of SRE (Systems Reliability Engineering)
- Accountable once IDL transformation is implemented, transition domain over to ongoing Incremental Change (IC) model under Build & Maintain (B&M)
People & Talent
- Building and maintaining strong technologists and technology leaders
- Overall people leadership responsibility for technology teams with diverse skill sets, including budgeting, interviewing, hiring, coaching and developing more T-shaped/ M-shaped colleagues.
- Ensuring squads are adequately resourced and fully funded
Risk Management
- Management of third party risks related to usage of vendors and associated technologies
- Manages all information and cyber security risks owned by the hive
- Understands and manages capacity and resiliency of systems
Governance
- Adherence of all hive releases to prevailing System Delivery Framework
- Ensure the T-M/IDL domain adheres to all tech governance standards across ICS, risk, audit, resilience, service level dimensions
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.
- Lead the T-M/IDL Hive to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles:
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
- CIO, Functions
- CIO, Finance
- Head of Treasury Technology
- Treasury COO
- Treasury Markets COO
- T-M/IDL Chief Product Owners
- Head of Treasury Services
Our Ideal Candidate
- 10+ years of experience in technology leadership with a leading commercial bank, preferably with international exposure
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Business/Finance/Accounting/Science
- Proven and relevant experience preferably in trade lifecycle across Cash, Trade and Financial Markets. Relevant experience in Treasury activities preferable including risk management and intraday liquidity forecasting
- Familiarity with relevant parts of the CIB organisation with regards payment, settlement and ledger flows
- Thought leadership and proven ability to work across a global team and effectively collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders
- Strong analytical and program management skills with proven ability to collect and analyse data, establish facts, and make recommendations in written and oral form
- Successfully handle challenging roles requiring collaboration and stakeholder management
- Work with all levels of management and staff, successfully manage and engage multiple stakeholders, negotiate effectively in situations involving conflicting interests and positively influence key decision makers on critical issues. Proven people leader with experience managing other team leaders / senior individuals.
- Liaise and coordinate on an ongoing with various parts of the Bank, including senior business and risk stakeholders
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Information Management
- System and Technology Integration
- Planning: Tactical, Strategic
- Influencing Through Expertise
- IT Governance
- Finance and Accounting
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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