Technical Delivery Lead

JOB SUMMARY

• The Technical Delivery Lead will be responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of our AI platform, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and successful project completion. This role requires a deep understanding of project management, AI and machine learning infrastructure, and technical leadership. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in delivering complex technical projects, with a strong focus on infrastructure as code, DevOps, and platform automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Management: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of the AI platform, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, ensuring best practices in software development, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with stakeholders, including data scientists, AI engineers, and business leaders, to define project requirements and deliverables.
• Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources effectively to ensure project success, including managing external vendors and contractors as needed.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the smooth delivery of the platform.
• Infrastructure as Code: Oversee the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of AI infrastructure.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Implement and manage DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, to streamline development and deployment processes.
• Platform Automation: Ensure the development and maintenance of automation frameworks to enhance platform efficiency and reliability.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure rigorous testing and quality assurance processes are in place to deliver a robust and reliable AI platform.
• Communication: Maintain clear and effective communication with all project stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to innovate and adopt new technologies and methodologies.

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10 years of experience in technical project management and delivery, with a focus on AI and machine learning infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, DevOps practices, and platform automation frameworks.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects, with strong project management skills and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
• Demonstrated leadership and team management experience, with the ability to inspire and guide engineering teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and address technical and project-related challenges.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Technical Project Management
• Stakeholder Management, Risk Management
• Oversee Platform Automation, Provide Quality Assurance for AI
• Oversee IaC implementation, Devops CI/CD pipelines for development and deployment 

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.

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