Director, Engineering Lead

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Supports Hive Tech Lead on Technology strategy, roadmap, and execution.
- Support Chief Product Owner & Hive Tech Lead on analysis for planning, budgeting and QPR reporting, including trade-off analysis.
- Deliver outputs that make a significant contribution to the organization's strategic goals.
- Partner with stakeholders to determine the right solutions to business needs.

**Business**
- Promote engineering craftmanship and focus on delivering business value.
- Responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.
- Works across multiple squads or hives for delivery of complex Features, Epics & Releases.
- Point of escalation for delivery issues across all impacted hives and squads.
- Work with Change Delivery Manager (Release Manager) to develop delivery and release plans with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the team and architect.
- Exhibit passion for client experience with a user-first mindset.
- Drive the domain towards future state of banking and technology.
- Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.

**Processes**
- Study existing engineering processes and contribute to improvements to drive up efficiencies. Present ideas across other areas and foster innovation.
- Analyse, remove, or mitigate dependencies across teams to enable speed and quality of delivery.
- Responsible in the preparation of production outputs and their planning in alignment to ESDLC standards. Vendor Data Management - reviewing the data handling practices from the vendor to ensure they adhere to the data protection regulation and best practices defined by Standard Chartered bank.**Risk Management**
- Mitigate delivery risks and issues, and ensure quality, affordability, and scope of delivery.
- Act as the risk control owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level.

**Governance**
- Address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements through the delivery lifecycle (design reviews, security reviews, SAT, OAT, etc.) with support from HTL(Hive Tech Lead) / PO / CPO (Chief Product Owner).
- 8 years of experience in the following: Programming Java, Micro Services using Spring Boot or Quarkus, Python & PL/SQL.
- May also take on Chapter Leadership as long as he/she is an active practitioner in the craft of the Chapter that they lead; i.e., has full accountability to the growth of the Chapter, and not solely an line management responsibility.
- Employ, engage and retain high quality talent that the team is adequately staffed and skilled to deliver on business commitments.
- Work on upskilling of technical expertise in line with latest market trend.
- Mentoring and training the squad on technical skills.
- Work with Hive Tech Lead to ensure the agreed blend and balance of in-house and vendor resources.

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- JIRA & Confluence
- Scrum & Kanban Board
- DevOps, GIT, Testing, Data Structures & Algorithm
- Design patterns, database, software lifecycle
- Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills
- Java, Python, Machine Learning, programming frameworks & API Design Principles
- Risk Management, Impact Assessment & Security Assessment

**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 mon