Product Owner

Job ID: 32286

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 24 Jun 2025

**Job Summary**
- SCB’s Common Engineering Platform aims to provide excellent developer experience by collaborating with architecture and chapters. The platform product owner role is at the centre of providing top notch experience to the developers.
- Common Engineering is a strategic focus for WRB. The business objective is to deliver efficiency by creating secure, simple to use, well documented and reusable artefacts.
- The workstream will drive platform innovation and with an objective of reducing the development and maintenance cost by 10% YoY. At the same time continuously improve on client experience and security.
- Track and optimise the squad performance.**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
Product Development
- With deep knowledge of agile principles, own the vision of the developer platform and hold accountability for defining and delivering on the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) of that squad including
- Defining end-to-end requirements, making sure they are complete, integral and consistent.
- Building and prioritizing Squad backlog in terms of user stories to achieve business goals; Continuously keeping the backlog up to date
- Managing relationships and synchronizing Technology colleagues with the Hive Lead, Chapter Lead and other Product Owners in cross-squads responsible for related products to align on roadmaps, priorities and dependencies.
Ensure high degree of stakeholder management to enable all requirements and deliverables are correctly understood, planning is up to date, priorities are reaffirmed, and stakeholder expectations are appropriately managed.

**Business**:

- Work with markets in scope for commercialization and monetization of the capabilities, helping to increase product adoption.
- Develop, deploy and track key success metrics.
**Processes**:

- Evaluate processes for optimisation of technical stack and automation of back-end processes for end-to-end Straight Through Processes. You will build product as well as prioritise product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectations, prioritisation and overall product roadmap.
**People & Talent**:

- Proactively provide inputs into squad members evaluation and performance review on a regular basis
- Working with Hive Lead, dynamically allocate resources within the squad based on (i) squad backlogs and (ii) resource needs.
- Define the set of necessary competences in the squad with Hive Lead / Chapter Lead, highlighting missing competencies and ensuring fulfilling these in timely manner so as to maintain the Hive work on track.**Key Responsibilities**

**Risk Management**:

- Ensures timely, and quality (error free) submissions, as needed for internal governance forums like QPRs / MPRs
- Ensures that all the applicable and relevant standards and policies are duly met to ensure there are no regulatory / compliance lapses.
- Working with cross functional teams including technology, Legal, Compliance, Fraud, operational risks during the course of each delivery
- Ensure, where applicable, adequate and appropriate systems, controls and compliance within area of responsibility. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting.
- Act as a governance leader promoting the highest levels of ethical conduct. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
**Governance**:

- Act as a governance leader promoting the highest levels of ethical conduct. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
**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 [country / business unit / function/XXX [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- [Insert local regulator e.g. PRA/FCA prescribed responsibilities and Rationale for allocation].
[Where relevant - Additionally, for subsidiaries or relevant non -subsidiaries]
- Serve as a Director of