Job Description

Technology Lead (6 months contract), SC Ventures

About The New Venture

We\'re a small but growing venture, with ambitions to help businesses of all sizes to get ESG right, in order to make the world a greener place.

We\'re looking for a Technology Lead for our venture. As the Tech Lead, you\'ll be accountable for the technical build and design of the greenfield platform.

The role is a full-time position. While the venture is being incorporated as a legal entity, you will be onboarded and pay rolled through an outsourced agency partner affiliated with SC Ventures. After incorporation, we expect to make this role a permanent position directly within the venture.

Responsibilities:

The Technology Lead has overall responsibility for all technical decisions for solution delivery, data strategy and operational accountability for the new venture. As the Tech Lead, you will manage the Engineering, Full-stack, Front-End and Platform Development Teams, working as part of a broader group of small, interdisciplinary teams, internally and externally, to build products and services that our customers love. The Tech Lead is expected to establish unified strategy, governance, support and escalation models. The ultimate success is critically dependent on Tech Lead\xe2\x80\x99s ability to manage business and technology stakeholders, make pragmatic decisions, capitalize on growing data sets, while influencing decision makers to build trust and secure long-term buy-in.

Stakeholder Management

• Effectively engage the new venture and SCV stakeholder\xe2\x80\x99s functions

• Strong communication skills, ability to tailor ideas to required audience and stakeholders

• Possess a driven, can-do attitude and proactive in supporting stakeholder engagement

• Comfortable in working with multiple stakeholders\xe2\x80\x99 teams and functions

• Build strong and effective relationships with the various technology and business counterparts

• Some experience in co-ordination of multiple dependencies and stakeholders in complex, large scale deployment environments

People and Talent

\xe2\x97\x8f Lead hiring of permanent headcounts in engineering and evaluation of selected vendors

\xc2\xb7 Nurture & build a strong local talent pipeline for future bench strength ensuring continuity

\xc2\xb7 Be the voice of the team when participating in projects / transformation agendas

\xc2\xb7 Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values

\xc2\xb7 Set appropriate tone and expectations for the new venture and work in collaboration with risk and control partners

Risk Management

\xe2\x97\x8f Identify risks and opportunities for all planned and inflight projects

\xe2\x97\x8f Manage escalations from vendors and communicate directly with stakeholders

Governance

\xc2\xb7 Act and escalate quickly when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees

\xc2\xb7 Work with multiple stakeholders to establish applicable risk / control framework to ensure that the Group\xe2\x80\x99s ability to remain within risk appetite is not materially threatened

\xc2\xb7 Familiarise self with governance structures and mandatory bank processes

• Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks.
• Reinforce an effective and exemplary risk and control culture and further strengthen the control environment.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

\xc2\xb7 Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s as well as the new venture\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct

\xc2\xb7 Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across SCB

\xc2\xb7 Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters

Key Stakeholders

\xc2\xb7 Venture Lead / CEO

\xc2\xb7 team members

\xc2\xb7 The new venture\xe2\x80\x99s board and SCV board

\xc2\xb7 SCV & Group Technology, ICS and Risk SMEs

Our Ideal Candidate:

\xc2\xb7 10+ years of experience of building large-scale digital services within a high growth rapidly changing environment, with 5+ years in developing solution architecture and leading engineering teams for digital product development and complex (partner) system integration projects

\xc2\xb7 A degree in a technical discipline (information systems, computer science, electrical engineering etc.)

\xc2\xb7 Proven track record in delivering solutions into production, and validating product market fit

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrated ability to manage internal and partner stakeholders

\xc2\xb7 Ability to identify opportunities and challenges in the marketplace, with constant evaluation of technological advancements and innovation to mitigate impediments and drive success

\xc2\xb7 Prior hands-on experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages

\xc2\xb7 Experience with building service-based architecture including use of micro services architecture

\xc2\xb7 Good understanding of application security and regulatory compliance

\xc2\xb7 Strong knowledge of DevOps and cloud infrastructure services

Good to have (Optional):

\xc2\xb7 Experience with start-ups or have been part of a founding team

\xc2\xb7 Any project experience on ESG/operations in financial services/ regulated environment is a plus

If you\'re ready to take on your next challenge, apply now.

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures (\xe2\x80\x9cSCV\xe2\x80\x9d) was established in 2018 with the purpose of \xe2\x80\x9cRewiring the DNA in Banking\xe2\x80\x9d by bringing three distinct areas together:

\xc2\xb7 The eXellerator Lab, enabling innovation at large in Standard Chartered (the \xe2\x80\x9cBank\xe2\x80\x9d) by supporting intrapreneurs and their ideas, collaborating with fintech\xe2\x80\x99s through the SCV Fintech Bridge and engaging with clients and co-creation ideas.

\xc2\xb7 The Investment Fund (\xe2\x80\x9cFund\xe2\x80\x9d), tasked to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies (\xe2\x80\x9cfintech\xe2\x80\x99s\xe2\x80\x9d) whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group.

\xc2\xb7 Venture building, with the objective of exploring new business models (\xe2\x80\x9cventures\xe2\x80\x9d), in the way it engages existing new customers and markets

There are c.100 team members (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nairobi, London, and San Francisco.

Standard Chartered