Lead, Infra Engineering

**Job Summary**
- A talented and passionate senior individual to join Standard Chartered as a Sr Software Developer. In this role, you will play a key role in the overall journey to treating infrastructure as code in the Storage and Backup domains, under the umbrella of Private Cloud Infra. This entails developing, automating, and working with stakeholders on requirements to improve the overall customer experience and streamlining processes to minimise mínimal human engagement. 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 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. This includes defining the proper practices for code reviews, testing, software and pipeline design, and ensuring proper security and reliability practices are enforced.
- Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) is a global organisation providing Cloud, Data, End User, Infrastructure, Integration, IT Service Management, Network and Security capabilities to all our clients and colleagues globally with an operating budget of $500mil USD and $200mil USD of change
- About our Infrastructure Engineering & Operations Team
- Our Infrastructure Engineering & Operations team are responsible for the Bank’s systems, development, and technology infrastructure and enjoy a strong engineering culture. We provide group-wide technology capabilities, including cloud data, IT service management, incident management and end user services.
If you’ve got the expertise to take our platform and infrastructure to the next level, we’ll help you channel that passion into a rewarding career path where you can make a real difference. Together, let’s transform the banking industry.
- About our Technology & Operations Team
- Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Have the responsibility to understand the overall infrastructure and architectural designs to translate to code that will be adopted by the technology teams and business users
- Lead the design and delivery of strategic initiatives for T&A
- Standardised and simplify software deployments
- Solving complex problems with best practice coding and engineering to enable business and platform performance
- Ensure adequate coding and engineering practices are implemented to deliver to the highest standard across the department
- 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 code-review and improvements to our code-base
- Perform extensive periodic reliability and security review to our platform
- 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