Job Description

The Role Responsibilities
The Project Manager of Cloud is responsible for delivering Bank\'s AWS cloud & platform services so as to have safe, secure, resilient and compliant services made available to our clients at the most optimal costs. Role has responsible to drive the outcomes on time with high certainty, proactively manage risks and remediate any findings. Manage costs aspects in the platform delivery of both implementation and resource allocation. Promptly attended and resolve incidents or disruption. Ensuring that Standard Chartered cloud environments are consistent with Bank audit and compliance requirements and consistent with the design ethos. (ie: MCAP Submissions). Focus all efforts against objective of Consistent, Secure and Resilient platform.
Strategy

• Plan and execute operations and initiatives; publish portfolio health, accomplishments and milestones, report and track portfolio issues (with action plans), risks (with mitigation strategies)

Business

• Proactively monitoring and reporting all critical aspects of the teams\' initiatives to enable the stakeholders, including the Cloud management team, to have a consistent, transparent and accurate view of their status as well as their probable trajectory.
• Partner across technology units to drive technical solutions and develop/deliver them to meet the prioritised business initiatives. Engage customers proactively and provide timely response or updates to customer, where required.
• Be a recognised and trusted partner for the team, stakeholders, senior management, business application owners and other technology teams who seek to make use of Cloud based infrastructure.

Processes

• Track, report and drive delivery of initiatives, whilst optimising resources.
• Provide Service Performance Reports at agreed schedule.
• Anticipate issues to plan actions and preventions, ability to identify and recognise the root causes of problems, apply creative problem-solving, and own/drive improvements
• Improve operating processes, measure & track productivity, and coordinate organisational procedures for optimised efficiency.

People & Talent

• Holds sufficient knowledge in a function, product or process
• Executes products, policies or processes
• Supervises and manages team members

Risk Management

• Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment within the Cloud organisation

Governance

• Main contact point for all contract liaison including:
• Ensuring compliance with SCBuy processes, contract management, periodic assessments.
• Manage Statement of work orders with partners & vendors including ensuring smooth onboarding, tracking.
• Manage & representation at Deal Approval Boards for all AWS contracts.

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.

Key stakeholders

• Communicate effectively on technical and business issues to both internal team members and customer

Our Ideal Candidate
Technology / Process

• 10 years of experience within large Financial Institution and excellent stakeholder management on Enterprise scale preferably utilising Amazon Web Services
• Project Management Professional (PMP/PMI) Certification to be in line with Project management standards in the bank.
• Proficient contract, vendor management to ensure smooth delivery of the services.
• Strong experience in planning and executing operations as well as new projects
• Expertise in developing and implementing Operational Governance framework
• ITIL orientated approach around deployment and infrastructure control on Enterprise level
• Cloud Technology knowledge to handle and run Change, Incident and Problem management
• Successful data driven Continuous Service Improvement delivery

Planning and Design

• Demonstrates high analytical skills, is self-motivated/directed
• Applies standards consistently across processes and reports
• Demonstrates senior level technical skills and ability to successfully complete and resolve complex, non-routine solution designs to address customer requirements
• Demonstrates strategic foresight while employing hands-on skills on projects and work assignments
• Demonstrates ability to develop, organize and analyse performance metrics in their given function
• Demonstrates ability to develop, communicate on Cloud offering aspects

Personal and Inter-Personal Skills

• Delivers by possessing productivity, professionalism, customer service attitude, attention to detail and quality; ability to multitask and adherence to standard operating procedures
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and ability to take direction from multiple areas
• Comfortable in an agile and fast-moving environment
• Strong communicator; able to communicate complex, often vague topics in a compelling manner.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to problem solve.
• Developing Self & Others through Coaching, Contributing to Team, continuously learning and sharing knowledge

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Stakeholder Engagement
• Development and implementation of Ops Governance Framework
• Service Delivery, Change, Incident and Problem management
• AWS or Azure Cloud Core Services acumen
• Project Management Professional certification

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:

• 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
• 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.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• 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
• 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.

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