Job Description

Role Responsibilities

This JD requests the suitable candidate to apply for the Release Manager in CCIB Channels. The candidate will help in delivering this programme by:

• End to end management of release life cycle for CCIB Channels application releases
• Planning and managing CCIB Channels application major application releases
• Manage change management team to ensure all production changes for CCIB Channels applications are managed within applicable metrics.
• Engaging closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable execution schedule.
• Having good knowledge of agile process and able to conduct scrums/daily stand-ups
• Pushing agile agenda through better collaboration and communication both within the teams as well as across partner teams
• Running daily release readiness standup calls, identify potential issues/risks and escalate appropriately and on-time
• Working with stakeholders including the Executives, Product, Design, Implementation, infrastructure and interface teams to align the project delivery
• Ensuring resource availability and allocation for managing production changes execution process.
• Performing risk management to minimize project risks
• Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements
• Having strong analytic skills

Key Requirements:

• BE/MCA - Great educational background, preferably in the fields of computer science or engineering for technical project managers
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Visio and Office

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 [country / business unit / function/[team] 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Solid 8 years of Release / Change management experience
• Certifications:
• Any of the below certification
• Project Management Professional
• Certified Scrum master
• ITIL Certification

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Analytical and Problem Solving Advanced
• Communication Advanced
• Teamwork Advanced
• Budgeting and Fiscal Control Core
• Application knowledge Knowledge in Unix, DB, DevOps Process
• Process Standards Core
• Systems Documentation Advanced
• Systems Integration Skills Advanced
• Project Planning Advanced
• Metrics Advanced
• Project Management Core
• Stakeholders Management Core
• Planning and Organization Advanced
• People Management Advanced
• Change Leadership Core
• Judgment and decision making Advanced
• Group policies and processes Core
• Leadership Core

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 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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