Principal Engineer

**JOB SUMMARY**
- A talented and passionate senior individual to join Standard Chartered as a Principal Engineer. In this role, you will drive the engineering strategy of the platform teams under Technology & Architecture. This role will play a critical part in helping shape and guide the future growth and development for Technology Strategy & Architecture 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 certain platform capabilities crucial to our strategy. In addition, you will be the example for engineering excellence and will set the 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

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Have the responsibility to deliver the architectural requirements on functional and non-functional (security and reliability) of technology platform under Software Engineering platform services
- Lead the design and delivery of strategic initiatives for T&A
- Standardised and simplify software engineering platform landscape and architecture
- Deliver on the best practices for engineering to enable business and platform performance
- Ensure adequate 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 on risk management and continual mitigating of risk
- Comply with organisation risk management framework
- Find automated solutions to reduce risk and prevent human and manual solutions

**Governance**
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

**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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance mattersTake 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

**Key Stakeholders**
- TTO Management Team
- T&A Management Team
- Software Engineering Platform Teams
- Engineers
- Business, Regional & Country CIOs & COOs
- CISRO, CISO
- CDO
- Group and Country Compliance & Regulators
- Group Internal Audit
- Operational Risk

**Other Responsibilities**
- Stakeholder management and