VP, Engineering Lead, WRB Tech

Job ID: 28502

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 May 2025

Job Summary

• Should be an SME in Open Banking, with hands-on exposure implementing solution across different markets
• Must be able to conceptualize and design solutions prevalent with market requirements and relevant technology solution aligned to agreed bank standards.
• Should be able to interact with senior technical and domain stakeholders across group and country to implement solutions
• Should be able to guide developers to understand the design and implement solutions.

Strategy

• Continually ideate, scope, develop, deliver, test and iterate features for the constantly evolving API Platform.
• Ensure appropriate levels of automation are adopted (build, deploy, configure, validate, monitor).

Business

• Lead planning, design and implementation of technical solutions for global internal and external customers.
• Represent the bank technically at industry, regulatory API forums and workshops with external partners.

Processes

• Liaise with other global technology, data, operations, compliance teams to execute.
• Follow a structured approach to software delivery within the team
• Advocate best practice release and change management protocols for developments consisting of multiple streams.

People and Talent

• Take ownership and accountability of squad's deliverables.
• Be a positive contributor to team culture and constructive feedback to peers and partner teams

Risk Management

• Assess and remediate risk pro-actively

Key Responsibilities

Governance

• Establish cadence meetings with stakeholders to bring in early visibility of progress, issues and risks

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 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.

Key Stakeholders

• PO, country CTM, Business, Risk owner, technology teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in WRB. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); Participate in
• WRB Hiring
• Design Discussion across WRB
• Adoption of tech. standards
• Train and develop college grads

Skills and Experience

• Java
• Design Patterns
• Open API Standards
• API Security
• Communication skills

Qualifications

• Graduate or Post-graduate in engineering with hands-on experience in implementing enterprise solution

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.