VP, Engg Lead

Job ID: 40757

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 7 Oct 2025

Job Summary

Seeking a highly skilled SAP Application Architect with extensive experience in SAP systems and hands on Hadoop, HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and midrange servers. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing robust SAP solutions, integrating them with big data/midrange technologies, and ensuring the scalability and performance of our enterprise applications. This role requires a deep understanding of both SAP and big data ecosystems, and the ability to align technology solutions with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Designing Application Architecture, Data Model, Data Engineering
• High Level Design, Low Level Design, Security Design, DevSecOps
• Conducting Pilot & Prototype, Pattern Library, Open-Source Enforcement
• Ops Interface, Delivery Interface, Audit Interface, Cloud Adoption
• Responsible for solution design , delivery and maintaining guard rails for the hive.

Business

Coordinate with business analysts and internal customers to develop business requirement and specification documents

Processes

• Strong commitment to sound development practices, including test and deploy with version control (GIT)
• Ensure compliance of regulations, policies and requirements of the In-Scope countries

People & Talent

Architect, Build, Manage and streamline business intelligence data warehouse.

Risk Management

Ensure Risk Compliance and registration for non Adherence

Governance

Ensure compliance of regulations, policies and requirements of the In-Scope countries

Other Responsibilities

• Lead the Solution Intent creation for different use cases across the SAP-BTP platform
• Conduct multiple review discussions across multiple stakeholders in refining the Solution intent document
• Present the Solution Intent in various forums for review and approval including the Architecture Review Forum (ARF), Functions Technology Committee (FTC), Cloud Clearing House (CCH), Security review Forum etc
• Get involved and help drive the overall SAP-BTP enablement including architectural and process recommendations across the portfolio
• Proactively advice the management team on the emerging technology transformation trends that are most relevant to the company's goals and evolving needs
• High degree of proficiency in hands-on low-level design, coding, automation and troubleshooting
• API, Microservices design expertise. Build reusable components / API's when designing any foundational data engineering project
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Identify, design and implement internal process improvements, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability etc
• Work with stakeholders including the executive, product, data and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Support transformation agenda, business operating models, standards, finance risk controls and compliance with regulations
• Engage with various business and technology stakeholders, participate in agile squad's to recommend and finalise architecture design. Manage key stakeholders and senior management for architecture decisions and inputs
• Experience in establishing effective partnerships across teams and influence senior management, peers and subordinates
• Working with business clients to understand their needs and to implement the cloud strategies designed to meet those needs.
• Ensuring Security while on-boarding apps into Cloud

• Design and architect comprehensive SAP solutions that integrate with Hadoop and other big data technologies.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into Solution Intent documentation.

• Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, technical documentation, and best practices for SAP and big data integrations.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in SAP, Hadoop, and big data technologies, and evaluate their potential impact on the organization.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field

Skills and Experience

• SAP Application Architecture & Design
• Hadoop / HAAS & Big data technologies
• S4 HANA / Datasphere / SAC BI / CO / MM / SD / PP & HCM
• SAP FIORI / SAP UI5
• Cloud platform & Services (AWS / Azure etc)
• Networking Concepts & Protocols
• Software engg principles / Design Patterns

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.