Hiring for the role of Head, Technology, Open Banking and Partnerships

Job Description

Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.Role Responsibilities The Technology Hive Lead, Open Banking & Partnerships (OB&P), is responsible for the delivery of technology solutions to support the CPBB agenda. The role owner owns the technology roadmap for OB&P and works closely with the business to deliver on the business s strategic agenda while ensuring adherence to overall architecture principles. The role provides technical strategy and thought leadership for all capabilities owned by the function to ensure all systems are robust, scalable and resilient to support business growth. Strategy
• Lead and implement the vision, strategy and technology solution for OB&P systems; driving change on transformation agenda and support the overall architecture strategy.
• Work with OB&P Hive lead to drive client focused technology roadmap and capabilities that will help to elevate the client experience.
• Work in collaboration with OB&P business to ensure the delivery roadmap is well executed within the allocated funding to achieve the business outcome.
• Work with group and regional stakeholders to drive delivery strategy that is aligned with the overall CPBB Partnerships business strategy.
• Drive the Agile Transformation of the team to the new Ways of Working, by restructuring the team in alignment with target end-state with focus on squads, chapters, communities of practice and guilds.
Business
• Deliver OB&P system capabilities with modernized technology and increased speed to market.
• Deliver program benefits on time and within budget whilst adhering to organizational quality standards.
• Develop and maintain an integrated portfolio plan with effective change management discipline.
• Manage Hive OKR and QPR processes. Coordinate across multiple Hives for inter-Hive technical dependencies. Incl. management of people, budget, technical, security, cloud migration, obsolescence.
• Manage the dependencies, risk and issue across project initiatives with workable resolution to deliver target capabilities.
• Manage 7 - 12 squads in 4 countries delivering a multi-year book of work.
• Define strategy solution delivery approach that is cost efficient to optimize business values.
• Drive change and adoption of new technology & delivery model with Agile, DevOps, Cloud and identify working opportunities on innovation.
• Ensure full DevOps and SRE adoption to increase stability and serviceability whilst optimizing time to market.
• Embed strong and effective stakeholder management with outstanding communication skills.
Processes
• Champion standards and ensure projects are delivered in accordance to the Bank s delivery framework.
• Provide inputs, support and challenge process or operating model to constantly identify opportunities to simplify and drive efficiency.
• Effective vendor management skills. Be able to contribute actively in negotiation conversations with external vendors.
• Develop opportunities for process standardization and efficiency across OB&P delivery portfolio.
People and Talent
• Attract, retain, develop, and have fun with a talented and diverse group of people is your primary responsibility on People front.
• Encourage Hive members to acquire and grow the skills and capabilities needed for efficient and effective delivery.
• Lead and facilitate interaction and knowledge sharing processes among the Hive members.
• Cultivate leadership mindset and create high performing teams.
• Coach and mentor team members on learning, career development and provide / identify opportunities to unleash their potentials.
• Maintain sustainable resource model with the right talents; skills set and expertise to deliver.
Risk Management
• Provide thought leadership and solutions to complex challenges at the project or hive levels (e.g. prioritization of business requirements when faced with budget / time constraints, trade-offs of resource allocation across projects, squads and deliverables).
• Identify, manage and mitigate risk that would impact the overall portfolio success.
• Support organization transition and define target operating model for team to deliver on outcomes.
Governance
• Work with program management office and 2nd line of defence teams to ensure portfolio governance is well managed.
• Ensure conduct values, practices are strictly adhered to by teams (eLearning completion, DLP prevention, etc).
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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Group Product Heads, Regional and country businesses, Operation team, Technology Heads across domain, Vendors, Partners, Digital Platform Lead, Business Hive Lead.
Our Ideal Candidate
• 10+ years of proven IT leadership and software delivery and business experience in the financial services industry.
• Transformation leader mindset with willingness to experiment and drive value fast through iterative processes.
• Delivery experience in implementing new core tech platforms and business capabilities.
• Domain knowledge in Open Banking & Partnerships ideal.
• Experience in building digital products leveraging new technologies a must.
• Experience with Banking as a Service and value proposition a plus.
• Awareness of data in motion and real-time streaming capabilities and how this can be used to drive value.
• Ability to understand business goals and connect them with technology capabilities and solutions.
• Ability to establish, lead and manage engineering teams.
• Ability to engage with senior business stakeholders and drive prioritization of roadmap and capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with 3rd party vendors and select and integrate major vendor software.
• Experience with adopting and executing technical standards, process, and governance across a broad project portfolio.
• Extensive experience with formal Agile delivery, DevOps and SRE methodologies.
• Bachelor s Degree - Required
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Technology Delivery
• Program Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Vendor Management
• Team Development and Management
• Agile and Change Management
• Banking Knowledge
• Business Solution
• Risk Management
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