VP, Chapter Lead, Engineering

Job ID: 34979

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 8 Aug 2025

Job Summary

Strategy

• 3 to 5 Years of experience in working and delivering Data science/AI-ML projects. Should have clear conceptual and working knowledge in these areas.
• 8 to 10 Years of experience in application development using SQL, Postgres, Oracle, UNIX(RHEL) & shell scripting
• Excellent knowledge on infrastructure capacity planning for the projects to efficiently manage the production, Test and Dev systems.
• Should be able to grasp and conceptualize the configuration of the technical components for Silent8, Fircosoft product using tools and expertise in the areas of system configuration, APIs, unix shell script, SQL query.
• Support and guide the team in finding and resolving critical production issues with technical expertise.
• Good understanding of fundamental architecture and design principles, object-orientation principles, and coding standards.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks.
• Develops implementation tools and process with an eye on automating manual activities.
• Experience in presenting solutions to architecture forums and follow the principles and standards in implementation. Should be able to influence the architecture and the solution for the screening applications for the best outcome for the bank.
• Work closely with vendor team for technical as well as functional solution design and delivery.
• Continuous engagement with vendor & partner teams to ensure zero delivery risks to cost and schedul

Business

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

Processes

• Compliant to SDF/TDA/RAT process and drive bank towards automating process areas removing redundancies.
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall models.
• Understanding on source control, versioning, branching etc.
• Descent knowledge on testing methodologies like performance testing, smoke testing, stress testing, endurance testing, etc.
• Run code reviews and ensure the implementation adheres to standards and solution desig

People & Talent

• Capable of working collaboratively with senior stakeholders.
• Should be able to positively motivate the team members to achieve stretched objectives.
• Capable of resolving issues quickly that arise among team members. Should be able to manage escalations from stakeholders.
• Should foster healthy work relationships and raise objections in a professional manner.

Risk Management

• 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

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key stakeholders

• Transaction Screening Product Management
• Fircosoft, SilentEight Product Management
• T&I Functions senior Management
• FCSO Program Management
• List Management Team
• FCC Stakeholders
• FCSU
• SPOT
• S8 Users

Skills and Experience

• Should have overall 18 years of relevant experience in IT industry with Technology delivery roles and preferably majority in banking domain with exposure to Screening/AML.
• The role will lead a nimble and lean agile squad. Hence the ideal candidate would need to multitask in terms of technology SME, domain SME and delivery roles.
• Should have 15 years of experience in owning and coordinating project deliverables and activities. , that also includes Release Management.
• You participate in all phases of the design, test, and implementation process, helping to modify the project scope, identify and troubleshoot problems with implementation or efficiency, perform data analysis to assess what types of modifications need to occur, and determine how well the new implementations are working.
• Should be able to influence stakeholders with clear KPIs to achieve the business goals in bank's interest.
• Should have excellent motivation, communication skills (oral & written) along with good presentation and documentation skills.
• Create and own project plan(s) and implementation cost. End to end ownership of technology delivery.
• Ability to multi-task and engage productively on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
• Should be able to negotiate with stakeholders in effective manner to create a win-win situation for the project objectives.
• Manage PMO spocs for the projects with clear management of financials. Accurate forecasting and planning aiming towards zero variance.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Artificial Intelligence

Communication skills

Cloud

Devops

Data Science

Oracle

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.