Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Join a team of dedicated architects working on challenging projects that will have a significant impact on the banks future technology stack. This role will involve strong technical skills and a proven ability to communicate across all levels to build trust, provide advice and deliver strategic and tactical solutions together with our engineering and development teams.

Strategy

• Work with stakeholders to contribute to the banks standards and strategy relating to database technologies and database resiliency standards.

People & Talent

• Build a strong network of relationships in the bank and across vendors to ensure dissemination of knowledge and best practice.

Risk Management

• As part of a team, help to identify risks to the banks data technologies and suggest safeguards.

Governance

• Maintain and contribute to the banks regulatory and internal commitments regarding data management and resiliency.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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

• Domain Chief Architects
• Enterprise Technology
• Catalyst Program Management

Our Ideal Candidate

• 12+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in financial services.
• 5 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in architecture role.
• Strong analytical skills across technical solutioning and cost justification.
• General good understanding of Networking concepts as they relate to Databases.
• Experience of Data Warehousing, Data Governance (inc. Data Lineage and Data Quality) and ETL.
• General knowledge of common data technologies such as Oracle, Postgres, Mongo, DB2, TeraData, Hadoop.
• Familiarity with cloud and common application architectures.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Common Database Technologies
• Cloud Technologies (AWS/Azure)
• Database performance and resiliency
• Data Governance / Regulations
• Infrastructure (Storage / Compute)
• Verbal / Written Communication (Business Communication)

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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:

\xc2\xb7 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

\xc2\xb7 Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

\xc2\xb7 Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

\xc2\xb7 Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations

\xc2\xb7 Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum

\xc2\xb7 Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns

\xc2\xb7 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

\xc2\xb7 A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning

\xc2\xb7 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.

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