Senior Solutions Architect

**JOB SUMMARY**
- Standard Chartered Bank aspires to uplift the Trade Technology estate to modern architecture to provide solid foundation for business. This role is pivotal to meet these outcomes. During the definition phase, As a seasoned architecture professional, Trade architect will be responsible for leading the “to-be” architecture definition in partnership with business, ops and technology teams. During the implementation phase he/she will lead solution effort to ensure that solution not only meets functional / non-functional requirements but also architecture strategy/standards/patterns and engineering principles.He/she will also influence enterprise tech/architecture standards as Domain architect and contribute actively to group-wide initiatives.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- About Standard Chartered Bank: We are a leading International bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.
- We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realize their' full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
- Background: Standard Chartered Bank is undergoing major Trade transformation journey to replace legacy apps with modern tech infra to provide solid foundation for business

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with business, product, tech, delivery, and others to define the target, roadmap and periodically refresh the same
- Define architecture principles, reusable patterns, integration standards and guardrails for the domain and work closely with the development teams to implement the same
- Drive domain APIs design and adoption
- Evaluate different solution options for business requirements and recommend best option to move forward
- Keeping track of industry developments, conducting R&D to incorporate best in class practices and methodologies and sharing the same with team and stakeholders.
- Chair and run governance forums - Architecture review forum, tech design authority to provide guidance and govern that investment dollars actually move towards target state
- Align architecture across different domains within bank from integration standard perspectives, to eliminate frictions and enable teams move forward
- Create / Review solution intent documents from perspectives including stability, resilience, performance, recoverability, availability, scale, DR and security.
- Lead domain architecture in group wide initiatives
- Evaluate vendor solutions during RFP process and propose the best fit approach
- Guide and coach development teams and junior architects to meet architecture outcomes.
- Eliminate decision stall by aligning solutions / strategy with different domains
- Participate in code reviews, assist & mentor team on technical aspects.
- Act as an SME on trade management technologies

**Key Expertise**
- Ability to define the future and explain for various initiatives - what are the outcomes, how it should work, who will do what, how will systems interact and how will the process, systems and data coherently align to meet the goals
- Functional skills - Ability to create e2e functional architecture for products and services in trade management domain
- Engineering skills - Microservices architecture, experience in platform as a service, Cloud, Devops, SRE, Observability, Security, API management, Integration technologies.
- Process skills - Ability to drive process and operational standardization
- Strategy - Ability to straddle both big picture and the low level developer concerns
- Communication - Skilled in presenting complex ideas in simple fashion.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate to meet the outcomes at different levels in the bank
- Listening skills and ability to empathize with others outcomes / concerns
- Documentation - Ability to create good quality documents, diagrams and ability to review various documents
- Strong leadership skills and outcome oriented to drive forward looking momentum /conversations

**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.- Bachelor’s in computer science, software engineering or related technical field. Masters in any field is an