AVP, Engineering Lead, WRB Tech

Job Summary

The Engineering Lead is a senior technology delivery professional responsible for driving the successful end-to-end delivery of complex products and features. This role provides technical leadership across multiple squads, ensures engineering excellence, and partners closely with Product, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to meet strategic outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Lead and support the formulation of technology strategy across the product domain, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business priorities
• Drive ownership of the product-suite strategy alongside Product Owners and Business stakeholders, ensuring prioritization and alignment with delivery outcomes
• Shape technology roadmaps, architectural direction, and long-term engineering plans to support sustainable delivery
• Oversee and contribute to budgeting, demand planning, and resource forecasting for engineering needs, ensuring transparent reporting and trade-off discussions
• Ensure consistency of solutions within the domain and alignment to broader enterprise technology standards

Business

• Champion engineering excellence and implement best-practice delivery methods across squads, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes
• Partner with Business, Product, and Architecture leads to translate business needs into feasible delivery plans and scalable technical solutions
• Promote an environment of innovation, encouraging teams to leverage modern engineering patterns and tools to solve business challenges
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering practices, delivery processes, and technical operations
• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise architecture standards and support long-term technology sustainability
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, providing leadership that reinforces accountability, ownership, and engineering craftsmanship

Process

• Oversee and continuously refine engineering processes to ensure efficient, predictable, and transparent delivery across all squads
• Enable timely and quality delivery of releases by ensuring disciplined sprint planning, dependency management, and effective removal of blockers
• Drive adoption of standardized eSDLC practices and ensure compliance with architectural, security, and operational guidelines
• Identify and implement improvements in engineering effectiveness, tooling, automation, and ways of working to maximize squad efficiency

• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of delivery metrics, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders
• Manage relationships and performance of technology vendors, ensuring value and alignment to engineering expectations
• Promote best practices in data management and governance to support reliable product delivery
• Guides engineering quality by defining evaluation criteria, enforcing best-practice AI tooling, and validating technical user stories, fixes, and core functionality enhancements.

People & Talent

• Take on Chapter Leadership as an active practitioner in the craft of the Chapter that they lead, i.e., has full accountability to the growth of the Chapter, and not solely a line management responsibility.
• Provide strong leadership to engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and high performance
• Actively engage in mentoring and capability uplift, strengthening technical skills, delivery discipline, and career development across squads
• Support hiring, onboarding, and talent development to build a resilient and skilled engineering workforce
• Promote a safe, inclusive, and collaborative environment, enabling teams to innovate and deliver their best work
• Ensure engineering teams adhere to craftsmanship principles and maintain high standards of code quality, testing, and design
• Optimizes AI knowledge reuse and consumption by identifying reusable capabilities and uplifting engineering skills across the hive.

Risk Management

• Identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks and issues proactively, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
• Ensure squads adopt appropriate testing, code reviews, security controls, and architecture governance practices
• Maintain strict adherence to eSDLC processes, ensuring high-quality engineering outputs and predictable delivery
• Promote safe delivery through proper documentation, change management, and quality assurance practices

Governance

• Address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements through the delivery lifecycle (design reviews, security reviews, SAT, OAT, etc.) with support from HTL(Hive Tech Lead) / PO / CPO (Chief Product Owner)
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, operational, and enterprise governance standards across all engineering work
• Support audits, oversight reviews, and risk committees with accurate and timely reporting
• Drive adherence to engineering governance frameworks, including architecture governance, risk controls, security requirements, and delivery standards
• Contribute to and participate in governance forums to represent engineering delivery health, risks, and strategic needs
• Evaluates & refines AI-generated requirements / technical artefacts, ensuring strategic alignment, feasibility, & adherence to standards.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills

• Programming/ Scripting
• Database Development
• Security Fundamentals
• Operating Systems
• Network Fundamentals
• Prompt Engineering
• Context Engineering
• Critical Thinking
• Systems Design & Architecture thinking
• AI Augmented Problem Solving & Workflow Design

Other Technical Skills

• DevOps
• API Development
• Web Security
• Testing

Human Skills

• Grows Self (Everyone)
• Grows Others (People Leaders)
• Grows Bank (Enterprise Leaders)

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.