Director, Hive Tech Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Summary

• Standard Chartered needs a Hive Tech Lead to drive the success of the combined Treasury Analytics journey. This role sits within Treasury Technology team and will work closely with Treasury COO, Finance Operations, Treasury Markets, Treasury Risk and Treasury Technology teams.

• The Hive Tech Lead will be accountable to drive technology strategy, project delivery, process, people agenda, risk and governance of the journey.

Strategy

• Responsible - Awareness of SCB's group strategy and steer hive strategy to achieve group outcomes

• Responsible - Alignment of technology strategy to business strategy

• Accountable - Management and measurement of strategic outcomes

• Accountable - Align Treasury Analytics Hive activities towards Technology Strategy/ Scorecard

• Accountable – Form and drive AI strategy for Treasury Technology

Business

• Accountable – Delivery of strategic technology systems and services to enable Treasury's analytics outcomes

• Responsible – Drive effectiveness and efficiencies of Treasury Analytics Hive to achieve business outcomes

• Informed – Awareness of the impact of Treasury Analytics processes to the bank's business

• Accountable – Ensures timely and stable running of systems owned by the hive

Processes

• Accountable – Implement systems operations processes leveraging the disciplines of SRE (Systems Reliability Engineering)

• Accountable – once Treasury Analytics services are implemented, transition domain over to ongoing Incremental Change (IC) model under Build & Maintain (B&M)

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Responsible – Building and maintaining strong technologists and technology leaders

• Accountable – Overall people leadership responsibility for technology teams with diverse skill sets, including budgeting, interviewing, hiring, coaching and developing more T-shaped/ M-shaped colleagues.

• Responsible – Ensuring squads are adequately resourced and fully funded

Risk Management

• Responsible - Management of third party risks related to usage of vendors and associated technologies

• Accountable – Manages all information and cyber security risks owned by the hive

• Accountable – Understands and manages capacity and resiliency of systems

Governance

• Accountable – Adherence of all hive releases to prevailing System Delivery Framework

• Accountable – Ensure the Treasury Analytics domain adheres to all tech governance standards across ICS, risk, audit, resilience, service level dimensions

Key stakeholders

• CIO, Functions

• CIO, Finance & Treasury

• Head of Treasury Technology

• Treasury COO

• Treasury COO – Head, Treasury Data & Analytics

• Treasury Analytics Product Owners

• Treasury Risk

• CDO – Head of AI Enablement

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 Treasury Analytics Hive 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.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in the Treasury Analytics Hive

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15+ years of experience in technology leadership with a leading commercial bank, preferably with international exposure
• Experience of leading a mid-sized technology domain (~50 people)
• Ability to define a tech domain strategy and drive subsequent execution
• Can straddle the business and technology domains with an ability to translate between the two
• Successfully able to navigate challenges requiring collaboration and stakeholder management
• Work with all levels of management and staff, successfully manage and engage multiple stakeholders, negotiate effectively in situations involving conflicting interests and positively influence key decision makers on critical issues. Proven people leader with experience managing other team leaders / senior individuals.
• Liaise and coordinate on an ongoing with various parts of the Bank, including senior business and risk stakeholders

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Big data, analytics, management information, business intelligence, data scienc
• Experience in appropriate analytics technologies such as Hadoop, spark/scala, python/pyspark, tableau, mst
• Experience in SAP analytics technologies a big bonus : datasphere, SAC, han
• Experience in Treasury, balance sheet management, risk management, or related banking business domain a big bonus

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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Tableau
Charter
Treasury
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Technology Leadership
Risk Management
Service Level
Strategy
Reliability Engineering
Banking
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