Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

We are looking for a self-driven and passionate individual to join our team as Solution Architect for Loan Technology.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of an innovative team responsible for leading the development and implementation of technology solutions for the Loan businesses globally within Financial Markets.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to contribute to a paradigm shift in the industry. We are seeking individuals who are mission-driven and eager to make a significant impact.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the overall Loan solutions Technical Delivery ensuring loan solutions are delivered on scope, time, budget as well as meeting engineering/design requirements in a matrix organization.
• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of a recently started platform (LoanIQ, Loan related services and analytics apps) for our Loan desks \xe2\x80\x93 trading, syndication, lending/banking books - ensuring it aligns with our Financial Markets and global Credit strategy.
• Oversee the development of applications and analytics around the system.
• Drive the implementation of LoanIQ as the anchor system for Loan Trading/Booking/Processing and and ability to integrate the system
• Responsible for delivery across Loans trading, settlements, payments and downstream data distribution
• Drive cross-teams solutions to deliver end-to-end Loan solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering technology solutions within a financial services environment.
• Meet stakeholders expectations: Traders, Head of businesses, COO, Head of Functions, IT peers, IT management, Analytics teams.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders

• Traders, Head of businesses, COO, Head of Functions, IT peers, IT management, Analytics teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred with a strong engineering complexity sensitivity and Financial / Capital markets Loan businesses culture stemming from a decade in an investment bank / credit markets.
• 10 + years of experience working in Loans / Lending Technology and products like LoanIQ or ACBS.
• Proven expertise with Loans related technology (internal, vendors), and ability to integrate systems.
• Hands on with requirements analysis, solution design and delivery. Perform high-level code reviews to ensure delivery matches expectations.
• Experience in delivery and technical team management through the complete project lifecycle. Extensive experience in business stakeholder management including front-office and back-office clients.
• LoanIQ product Architect for the Loans Technology team, responsible for developing the Global Loans IT strategic roadmap.
• Work closely with stakeholders and other product lines across Global Credit Products (GCP) IT to ensure alignment of resourcing and target state delivery
• Proven ability to lead large-scale implementation and integration projects, building and managing successful teams and stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills.
• Possess a strong technical acumen and have the capability to analyse situations from a technical standpoint.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work with senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering technology solutions within financial markets/global loan businesses environments.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Proven expertise with the LoanIQ system and ability to integrate the system
• Proven ability to lead large-scale implementation and integration projects, building and managing successful teams and stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in delivering technology solutions within a financial services environment

\xc2\xadAbout 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 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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