Product Owner

Job ID: 37455

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 21 Aug 2025

**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. 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
- 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
- **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 benef