Job Description

The Role Responsibilities
Are you ready to be part of the team that drives the cloud strategy and architecture to build a cloud platform that meets banks security and resiliency standards? If yes, we are looking for a "Senior Cloud Architect" to be part of this team.
What you will do

• Architect and design cloud services to meet the security, resilience, availability requirements for the bank.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements for services on cloud.
• Deliver solution architecture and design for services on cloud.
• Perform architecture assessments on cloud services to meet bank\'s requirements.
• Work with application architects to build patterns and solutions for specific workloads.
• Build architectures that scalable, resilient, secure, fault tolerant, compliant with regulations.
• Build prototypes to validate the design and conformance to standards.
• Work with cloud service providers to drive the bank\'s agenda, provide feedback for service improvements to meet bank\'s requirements.
• Build relationships with architects and engineers across the bank and drive the adoption of cloud.

What you will bring

• Deep understanding and experience on cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure or others.
• Deep understanding in cloud services across compute, containers, serverless, storage, network and content delivery.
• Deep understanding on storage, RDBMS and No-sql /in-memory database services.
• Deep understanding of security, identity and compliance.
• Deep understanding of building hybrid cloud architecture.
• Strong expertise building solution architecture and design on cloud services.
• Strong experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practise, tooling and techniques (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Packer, Rundeck, Ansible, AppDynamics, Splunk).
• Expertise in one of the following programming languages such as : Java, C, C++, Golang or Javascript.
• Ability to do rapid prototyping and testing.
• Ability to use context to drive relevant architecture decisions.
• Be a good listener to be effective in designs.
• Goes without saying, able to sketch architecture diagrams and solutions.
• Ability to bring multiple perspectives & dimensions while solving a problem and identify solutions.
• Ability to zoom in/out to see different things and uncover details to build relevant architectures.
• Ability to say no to govern the design constraints.

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 country / business unit / function/ 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor\'s Degree with 12 years of software delivery and business experience in the financial services industry with 3 years of experience on cloud technologies.
• Industry certifications on Cloud and Container technologies.
• Strong experience in computer science fundamentals and engineering.
• Experience with adopting and executing technical standards, process and governance across a broad project portfolio.
• Preferred demonstrated capability in automation, cloud and open-source technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in modern technologies, cloud, APIs, and open source.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Cloud Technologies
• Architecture and Solution Design
• Contextual Design Making
• Listening and Communication Skills
• Software Engineering

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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