Job Description

Job Summary
This role will serve as the Solution Architect for Risk/CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance), Audit, Legal Domains and expected to function as a senior member of the larger Risk/CFCC/FCSO/Legal/Audit architecture team. Besides stakeholder management and ensuring that architecture governance and technology standards are met in the assigned domains, the role is also expected to actively own and define the target architectures for these domains and govern the transition states. Working closely with the various Domain Technology teams, the person will also help drive architecture strategy, roadmap, governance and provide architecture guidance where necessary.
This will then help to drive standardisation and consistency across the Functions domains, with a view of landscape simplification and cost efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Responsible for Solution Architecture for Risk/CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance), Audit, Legal Domains
• Collaborate with the wider architecture community across SCB to ensure that Group and Functions Architecture Strategies are executed within the area of responsibility, and on relevant pan-bank topics.
• Responsible to work with Application Architects, project team and vendors to ensure that solutions are aligned to wider Functions/Group Architecture Strategy, Policy and Standards. Understand and review vendor product architecture and capabilities, where applicable
• Ensure that patterns and best practices are being considered and applied across solutions
• Responsible to work with Application Architects, domain teams and/or vendors to define domain architecture roadmaps.
• Drive wider enterprise-wide strategic Architecture initiatives, where applicable.

Business

• Collaborate with Business and Technology stakeholders (such as Technology Domain Heads and Global Heads, Domain Architect and Chief Architect) to drive alignment between Business, Architecture and Technology Strategies.
• Engage proactively with business stakeholders to ensure that Architecture is involved at the onset of any solution that requires Technology, through active participation in business strategy workshops, QPRs and/or Refinement Forums.
• Contribute to investment planning/prioritisation with the businesses and TTO.
• Improve cost efficiency - drive efficiency by identifying opportunities to rationalise to a fewer best of breed platforms which provides strategic business capability and aggressively decommission redundant applications.
• Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape, where applicable, across the assigned domains and Group Functions whilst balancing regulatory requirements like cloud approvals, data sovereignty and security.

Processes

• Ensure Architecture standards and processes are adhered to for the assigned domain and domain level technical debt is tracked and monitored.
• Work with Application Architects and Project teams on Evaluations and Proof of Concepts for new technologies and other strategic technology initiatives
• Contributes to development of architecture strategy and standards for the organization
• Responsible for creating, maintaining or reviewing Domain/Sub-Domain level architecture documentation in the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for Reviewing Application / Project level architecture documentation from Application Architect/Project Team.
• Facilitate cloud governance & approvals for the assigned domains, constantly seek opportunities for process optimisation and enhancements

People & Talent

• Collaborate closely with Application Architect and Project team to provide guidance and drive architecture direction.
• Thought leadership in the assigned domains and key contributor to Group Architecture initiatives/strategy
• Be a mentor or coach to other members of the team, as appropriate

Risk Management

• Proactive in seeking regular assurance that function is performing to an acceptable risk and control standards.
• Include internal controls, legal and regulatory requirements in the processes supporting the function
• Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees.
• Balance business performance delivery and cost management with risk and control matters to ensure that it does not materially threaten the Group, remaining within risk appetite.
• Work in collaboration with risk and control teams.

Governance

• Be a part of domain architecture governance forums to actively be aware of and govern emerging decisions, in alignment with Functions and wider Enterprise architecture standards/policies/guidelines
• Accountable for the governance of all domain level tech and architecture decisions through the applicable Architecture Review Forums and Functions Tech Council
• Ensure compliance with all salient SCB governance processes/frameworks/policies where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream influence for Group Functions.
• Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws, anti-money laundering, Open Banking, and Data Protection regulations and guidelines

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 the Functions TTO teams 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

• Global Head, Risk and CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance), Legal Technology
• Domain Heads for Risk/CFCC, Legal
• Application Architects, Development Managers/Leads and Project Teams in the relevant domains
• Group Functions and TSA Technology teams
• Risk & CFCC business
• Legal business

Other Responsibilities

• Embrace and practise SCB's brand promise of Here for Good and corporate values
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
• Responsible for building a culture of good conduct

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent with 15 or more years of total experience.
• More than 10 years of relevant experience, in a hands-on role for solution architecture in the Finance sector, preferably in banking
• Functional knowledge in at least one of the domains of Compliance, Risk, Surveillance & Monitoring or any Compliance functions is required
• Experience in large, complex organisations, ability to handle cultural diversity and managing senior stakeholders.
• At least 3 years of experience on developing enterprise applications using modern programming languages.

This is not an Enterprise Architecture role.
Skills and Experience

• Application Design, Architecture
• IT Architecture
• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
• Platform Architecture
• IT Governance
• Data Architecture
• Application Development Tools
• Cloud Computing Architecture

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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