Principal Platform Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

• Become a trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) on platform architecture. provide deep architectural expertise on complex cloud and on-premises projects.
• 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

• Become a trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) on platform architecture. 
• 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

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years hands-on experience (coding in Java, JS, Python) ideally full stack development.
• 3 + years of experience in platform and application architecture roles, leading complex architectural projects with multiple stakeholders, utilizing various security tools / technologies.
• 3 + years of experience in platform and application architecture and / or networking architecture and / or Cloud Service Providers: AWS, Azure, Google, etc.
• 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
• Cloud Native Architecture
• DevOps Architecture
• Platform / Application Security
• Application Development

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along 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.

Recruitment Assessments

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