Principal Platform Engineer

**JOB SUMMARY**
- Deliver workable global/multi-country deployment models with cost / benefit analysis.
- Communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, provide guidance on proper architectural patterns. Identify and mitigate anti-patterns, redundancies and duplications.
- Perform gap analysis for specific domains, identify gaps in existing capabilities, service maturity.
- Identify missing platform capabilities in alignment with changing business needs, threat land scape and technical requirements to increase the quality of the selected solutions also including topics such as products’ convergence over time and products decommissioning.
- Define and manage architecture artefacts including reference architecture documents, blueprints, technical and non-technical security requirements aligned to the corresponding strategic roadmap.
- Aligns architecture principles with our platform strategy, ensures alignment to roadmaps, and resiliency standards as well as to our architectural framework.
- Responsible for platform architectural design, realisation of the architecture in the solution implementation roadmap.
- Analyse market trends and threat landscape, provide meaningful insights, opportunities and risks.
- Represent the architecture group in key internal service architecture governance forums.
- Work closely with your peers in the platform architecture group, service and solution architects, engineers, project teams.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Define and manage architecture artefacts including reference architecture documents, blueprints, technical and non-technical security requirements aligned to the corresponding strategic roadmap.
- Aligns architecture principles with our platform strategy, ensures alignment to roadmaps, and resiliency standards as well as to our architectural framework.
- Responsible for platform architectural design, realisation of the architecture in the solution implementation roadmap.
- Analyse market trends and threat landscape, provide meaningful insights, opportunities and risks.
- Represent the architecture group in key internal service architecture governance forums.
- Work closely with your peers in the platform architecture group, service and solution architects, engineers, project teams.

**Business**
- Provide deep architectural expertise on complex cloud and on-premises projects.
- Work closely with your peers in the platform architecture group, service and solution architects, engineers, project teams.

**Processes**
- Perform gap analysis for specific domains, identify gaps in existing capabilities, service maturity.
- Identify missing platform capabilities in alignment with changing business needs, threat land scape and technical requirements to increase the quality of the selected solutions also including topics such as products’ convergence over time and products decommissioning.

**People & Talent**
- Coordinate across different teams and locations
- Capability development of the team/ unit
- Conducting appraisals, feedback & handling work allocations for direct reports & reviewing the same for indirect reports.
- Managing the career growth, motivation & retention for team members

**Risk Management**
- Continuous management of the Trade Platfrom System risks
- Proactively identify issues and actions
- Monitor and remediate issues and actions from audits
- Awareness of the regulatory world and knowledge of AML, Fraud, Screening, Data Quality needs and ensuring these are catered for in the functional design

**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 matters.
- Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

**Key Stakeholders**
- Engineering Head, TradeXpress programmes, engineering teams, enterprise architecture, CISRO, etc
- 8+ years hands-on experience (coding in Java, JS, Python) ideally full stack development.
- Demonstrate expertise in developing and designing reliable software for distributed systems.
- Has good fundamentals pertaining to software engineering, containers, databases, networks, cyber security and infrastructure.
- Education with bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably majoring in computer science.

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Coder - Full stack Developer
- Platform / Application Architecture
- Network Architecture
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