Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Strategy

IT power's Standard Chartered Bank's vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative, secure and efficient IT solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders; we will improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.

Role Responsibility: Technology and Project Management

• Responsible for supporting the development and implementation of an oversight framework for Operational Resilience activities that will include IT resilience, third party resilience and crisis management
• Implement Operational Resilience Programme to meet PRA's SS1/21 expectations for the operational resilience of SCBs' important business services by 2025.
• Identify technology services mapped to IBS and validate capability to recover within impact tolerance.
• Operationalise SS1/21 requirements of mapping, testing and risk identification (including implementation controls) for about 200 services mapped to 19 IBS.
• Perform technology Resilience assessments; includes operational and service management processes; independent challenge and testing of controls on operational resilience.

Skills Required

• Subject matter expertise in business continuity, operational resiliency or IT disaster recovery
• Strong knowledge of security/ resilience frameworks, principles and architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Financial related products and operations will be preferred.
• Strong experience in data analysis especially drawing meaningful conclusions from large/diverse datasets.
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across Businesses, Functions and Countries.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
• Self-starter, able to self-manage with strong collaboration skills

Key Stakeholders

• Project team
• Architecture teams
• T&I service owners
• T&I Leadership Team,
• Process Strategy & Design lead
• Resilience Planning Lead

Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

• Good understanding of Project delivery methodologies - Agile, SDLC, Prince
• Years of exp - 5 to 10 years
• IT DR Qualifications

Role Specific Competencies

• Strong project management background having experience in resilience, continuity and technologies.
• Structured decision making and superior problem-solving skills
• Ability to grasp the big picture of the business drivers and IT drivers to create solutions and work at a detailed level, as may be required by business and IT teams to implement solutions
• Ability to identify similar problem patterns and create standard solutions while adapting these to the peculiar needs of a given business or IT problem
• Ability to develop designs and solutions that pay attention to architecture design quality, cost effectiveness and the inherent risks in approach while proposing credible and effective mitigations
• Ability to collaborate with teams across the firm to leverage previous experiences, utilities and shared capabilities
• Formulates solutions that are credible and holistic and take into consideration a broad array of factors that will shape the solution design. These include feasibility of testing, implementation, availability of skills for the technology, viability of relevant third parties
• Very knowledgeable about best practices, industry standards, open-source, emerging trends
• Good visualization and presentation skills to create visual models and experience using industry modelling tools
• Excellent team player with ability to communicate effectively with software engineers, infrastructure engineers, business analysts, and business managers
• Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Business or Risk Management (or equivalent professional qualification).

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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