Associate Architect

Requisition Number: 35594

Job Location: Chennai, IND

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 07/11/2025

Posting End Date: 05/12/2025

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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data & AI Architect to be part of Legal, Audit, Risk & CFCC domains who is highly skilled in designing and architecting large and complex data and Agentic AI applications. Delivering value to our customers is at the core of what our teams do - this role works closely with Enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment of application architecture to broader enterprise architecture patterns and strategies.

This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining a robust and scalable data architecture that meets the needs of our legal, risk, audit, and compliance technology initiatives. This role will closely with cross-functional teams to identify data needs, develop data models, and ensure that data is accurate, reliable, and available for analysis and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Clear understanding of the Enterprise Architecture patterns and strategy.
• Drive the simplification, standardization, improve reusability of the solutions and adoption of industry best practices across all data applications in the domains
• Work with other Data Architects across Functions Architecture and Group Architecture to ensure that Group and Functions Architecture Strategies are executed within the area of responsibility.
• Drive optimisation with a rigorous focus on efficiency & optimisation of application infrastructure capacity.
• Drive innovation in improving the quality of the data and in monetizing the data

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the group operates.
• Knowledge of end-to-end data flows for Legal, Audit, Risk and Compliance domains
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks like BCBS239 which mandate data lineage and data quality standards.
• Managing the technology evolution and maintaining its long-term vision & roadmap and communicating the technology vision & strategy to stakeholders by participating RFs and QPRs.

Processes

• Creating and maintaining architectural documentation and diagrams, and for communicating the design and technical direction to the development team.
• Prepare Solution Intent documents and work with domain architects in getting it approved
• Perform threat modelling and work with SACA team to get SACA request approved
• Present proposed solutions in ARF and FTC and working with domain architects to get approvals
• Identifying and addressing any technical issues or bottlenecks in the application, and for leading technical discussions and reviews
• Work with hive leads and engineering teams to ensure data applications are complaint with SCM, SDF and ICS standards and adopt bank standard CI/CD pipelines.

• Establish and publish engineering best practices and standards for Engineering teams and ensure that Engineering teams follow these standards.

• Help in the selection of technologies and frameworks to be used in the development of the applications and help in the design of the system's infrastructure and deployment.

• Bring outside in view of industry trends and emerging technologies to development teams and management.
• Improve speed to value by adopting composable and evolutionary architectures and increasing the reusability.
• Identifying and addressing scalability, performance, and security issues in Legal, Audit, Risk and CFCC data applications.

People & Talent

• Provide Architecture and Engineering guidance to the Project team
• Helping engineering teams to become more productive by empowering them with modern tool stack and helping them to shift left the DevOps and DevSecOps practices &tools
• Work with Project teams to lead and drive Evaluations and Proof of Concepts for new technologies and other strategic technology initiatives
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Increasing participation in technical communities and guilds
• Build future pipeline of engineering talent by upskilling and reskilling the existing engineers

Risk Management

• Work closely with Project Team to ensure projects are implemented in line with approved Architecture and Target Architecture.
• Work with project team closely to address day to day architecture and engineering challenges
• Work with hive leads and engineering teams to ensure all our applications are complaint with SCM, SDF and ICS standards and adopt bank standard CI/CD pipelines.

Governance

• Responsible to work with project Team to ensure submissions to Architecture Review Forum (ARF) and Functions Technology Council (FTC) meet the required level of due diligence and quality from an architecture perspective.
• Responsible to ensure that Application/Project level architecture processes and any related deliverables are completed/met.

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: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• Global Head, Legal, Audit, Risk and Compliance Technology
• Domain Heads of Legal, Audit, Risk and Compliance Technology
• Domain Architect and Functions Chief Architect
• Head of Compliance Surveillance Data & Analytics
• Global Head - Change Management – CFCC
• Chief Product Owner / Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Agile Delivery Leads

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Technology Services – Functions. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [Bring continuous improvement culture in the team and work with SRE Lead to bringing automation first attitude of team

Qualifications

• Education-Tertiary qualification, Master/bachelor's degree in computer engineering / computer science preferred.
• Certifications-Bigdata, cloud and python related certifications
• Languages-English

Skills and Experience

• Data Architecture and Design
• Architecture Governance and Processes
• Programming languages (Python, Scala)
• Data and Big Data Technologies
• Analytics and AI/ML
• APIs, Integration and Middleware Technologies
• Container Technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)

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.