Job Description

Roles and Responsibility
The purpose of this role is to:

• Define and own the LCS data strategy
• Drive business value for the data assets and support improved risk management and compliance in LCS.
• Define data solutions and data delivery roadmaps to meet the evolving needs of the LCS practice areas.
• Enable establishment of data-driven culture and processes in LCS to deliver enhanced productivity.
• Define and maintain a data assurance programme to ensure data quality and integrity.

Strategy

• Define and deliver a strategy to improve the availability, use and analysis of data to support strategic decision making.
• Drive business value for the data assets to support improved risk management and compliance in LCS.
• Define data solutions and data delivery roadmaps to meet the evolving needs of the LCS practice areas.
• Enable the establishment of data-driven culture and processes in LCS.

Business

• Create best practices, solution frameworks and techniques to deliver a next-generation data analytics outfit.
• Guide the Data Engineering & Insights team in eliciting data requirements and identification of golden sources for data.
• Establish data roadmaps, in conjunction with the Legal Risk & Policy and TTO teams to manage the LCS end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Establish a data knowledge bank and advisory function to enable improved data insights and enhanced productivity across LCS.
• Act as a thought leader for the data and reporting processes in LCS.

Processes

• Liaise with the wider data community in establishing best practices, solution patterns and nimble data analytics solutions.
• Perform horizon scanning on upcoming trends in data management practices, data science technologies and incorporate into ways of working.
• Define and maintain a data assurance programme to enable data quality and integrity, and to support data driven decision making in LCS.
• Lead / manage the build out of the data systems, strategy and pipeline of work; streamline the data delivery process across the function; and identify and implement methods to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Be client focused - evaluate business needs and objectives to deliver outputs that match or exceed the expectations.
• Collaborate with TTO regarding the data infrastructure on maintenance and on relevant projects which impact Legal technology and data.

People & Talent

• Lead the Data Engineering & Insights team in delivering the objectives.
• Attract and retain talent to support creation of a best-in-class data solutions\xe2\x80\x99 team within LCS.

Risk Management

• Embed compliance with data management risks, including data quality, secrecy, privacy, records management and AI ethics in the design and use of data solutions.
• Ensure compliance with the risk management practices applicable for the role.

Governance

• Support compliance of all relevant policies and procedures for data platforms and activities within remit.
• Ensure timely escalation and remediation in the event of serious data breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 the Data Engineering & Insights team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• LCS COO team
• LCS Leadership team
• LCS BPMs
• Functional stakeholders including Finance, TTO, HR

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, or another relevant field.
• Very strong experience as a data engineer or in a similar role.
• Hands-on experience with database & data lake design & technologies (e.g., SQL, or Azure, etc.).
• Technical expertise with data models, data mining, data manipulation, data mapping and segmentation techniques.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Strong communication skills, with confidence explaining complex concepts in a simple manner.
• Good presentation and interpersonal skills with experience of working with senior stakeholders.
• Great numerical and analytical / problem-solving skills.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience.
• Ability to handle sensitive matters at all levels of the organisation with discretion and confidentiality.
• Good requirements gathering skills.
• Good knowledge of information security and information privacy best practices.
• Working knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL or Java, etc.).
• Knowledge of Big data technologies, cloud concepts and data engineering techniques and tools.
• Data engineering certification (e.g. IBM Certified Data Engineer) is desirable.
• Knowledge of service desk principles or certification (e.g. ITIL) is desirable.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data Engineering
• Data Architecture
• Data Warehousing
• Data Governance
• Logical Data Modelling
• Data Gathering and Reporting
• Data Insights and Analysis
• Data Science
• Analytical Thinking
• Coaching Others
• Manage People

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 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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