Job Description

Job Summary
A talented and passionate senior individual to join Standard Chartered as a Hypervisor Engineer. In this role, you will play a key role in testing, releasing and managing Software hypervisors. This role will play a critical part in helping shape and guide the future growth and development for Private Cloud Infrastructure and will be responsible for the creation and transformation of the capabilities that will define how we organise to deliver on the strategy. This includes leading the design and delivery of the virtulization platform and storage capabilities crucial to our strategy. In addition, you will be instrumental in driving the engineering excellence culture and promoting engineering practices for the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Design, manage and review our technology stack for our on premise virtualization solutions.
• Take a leading role in securing the platform.
• Lead the design and delivery of strategic initiatives for T&A
• Solving complex problems with best practice engineering to enable business and platform performance
• Develop and champion solutions through coding and automation
• Ensure platform delivery and services meet highest level of standard of availability and reliability.
• Ensure platform delivery and services meet security and risk requirements and operational SLA.
• Perform extensive periodic review of the infrastructure and proposal improvements
• Anticipate and evaluate business challenges and take action to mitigate
• Develop opportunities for innovation and out of the box thinking
• Enforce (through automation) engineering processes and policies and associated risk controls

Business

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver new solutions and new practices to ensure the organisation capitalises on industry learning and growth
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects
• Appraise and interpret complex requirements to understand the impact of the organisation's ability to deliver change

Processes

• Realize the end-to-end delivery practice and its associated list of processes
• Responsible for delivery processes
• Be responsible for the risk management of change
• Drive the optimisation of delivery by reviewing and optimising data pertaining to the effectiveness of change

Risk Management

• Own the risks linked to the delivery of code into production
• Own the risks linked to the maintenance of code in production
• Own the end-to-end risks associated with the dev/test environments and the requisite tooling
• Drive for the closure of risks, operational events and audit findings on time, once and done
• Educate the team on risk management and continual mitigating of risk
• Comply with organisation risk management framework
• Find automated solutions to reduce risk and prevent human and manual solutions

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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

• TTO Management Team
• T&A Management Team
• Software Engineering Platform Teams
• Engineers
• Business, Regional & Country CIOs & COOs
• CISRO, CISO
• CDO
• Group and Country Compliance & Regulators
• Group Internal Audit
• Operational Risk

Other Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management and education sessions to clarify complex topics into digestible sound bites
• Be an example of great engineering leadership in terms of ownership, accountability, and practices
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
• Responsible for building a culture of good conduct

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years experience with Infrastructure and application deployments.
• Creating, and reviewing architecture designs for future technology
• Ensuring a joined up approach to solutions crossing multiple domains
• Making sure projects are run to completion and on time.
• Identifying gaps and propose solutions in the bank processes or security controls
• Champion automation and self-service solutions.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of application architecture and how to execute on virtual platforms
• Understanding applications and how to do performance analysis
• A round knowledge of infrastructure and best practice architecture
• Strong knowledge of Virtualization, storage and networks.
• Able to write code.
• Strong written and verbal skills

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.

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