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This role owns the foundational technology stack that enables AI adoption at scale, including the execution substrate, control plane, model serving infrastructure, and underlying data architecture.\nThe role holder will establish enterprise standards, architectural principles, and governance frameworks that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant deployment of AI capabilities across the Bank. The individual will work across business, technology, data, cybersecurity, risk, and engineering teams to create a reusable AI platform that supports agentic systems, generative AI, machine learning, and future intelligent automation capabilities.\nThe successful candidate will be a recognized technical authority with deep expertise in distributed systems, data architecture, AI platform engineering, and enterprise governance within highly regulated environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategy\nDefine and drive the Bank's long-term AI platform strategy, architecture vision, and technology roadmap.\nEstablish enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks for AI platform adoption.\nShape the evolution of the Bank's agentic AI ecosystem, ensuring scalability, resilience, governance, and regulatory compliance.\nAdvise senior executives and technology leadership on strategic AI platform investments and architectural decisions.\nDrive technology standardization while balancing innovation, operational efficiency, and risk management.\nBusiness\nAct as the principal architect for the Bank's enterprise AI platform.\nDefine and govern platform interfaces, service boundaries, data contracts, and operational controls.\nLead architecture reviews and design authority forums for AI-related initiatives.\nCollaborate with engineering, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and risk teams to deliver scalable AI services.\nSupport adoption of AI capabilities across business functions through reusable platform services and reference architectures.\nDrive multi-provider AI model strategies that optimize performance, resilience, portability, and cost.\nProcesses\nDesign and govern distributed execution architectures supporting agentic and AI-enabled workloads.\nEstablish standards for orchestration, durable workflows, agent state management, and tool integration.\nDefine enterprise approaches for model deployment, evaluation, observability, monitoring, and lifecycle management.\nCreate canonical data models and semantic layers across heterogeneous enterprise data domains.\nGovern architecture decisions relating to lakehouse platforms, object storage, graph databases, vector stores, and NoSQL technologies.\nLead architecture decision record (ADR) development and architecture review board submissions.\nPeople & Talent\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship across architecture, engineering, and data teams.\nDevelop architectural capability within the organization through coaching, standards, and knowledge sharing.\nInfluence technology direction across teams without direct reporting authority.\nFoster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and architectural discipline.\nRisk Management\nEnsure AI platform architecture aligns with enterprise risk management frameworks.\nEmbed security, privacy, auditability, explainability, and resiliency principles into platform design.\nDefine controls supporting sovereign deployment requirements and data localization obligations.\nDrive architecture patterns that mitigate operational, technology, cyber, and model risks.\nGovernance\nEstablish and enforce enterprise-wide architecture standards for AI systems.\nDrive governance frameworks covering identity, authorization, tool access, routing, audit, and usage controls.\nPartner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Information Security teams to ensure regulatory compliance.\nProvide evidence and architectural assurance for internal governance and regulatory reviews.\nRegulatory & Business Conduct\nDisplay exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.\nTake personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, and business conduct across Standard Chartered Bank.\nEnsure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and technology governance requirements.\nEffectively identify, assess, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters associated with AI platforms and services.\nOur Ideal Candidate\n15+ years of experience in software engineering, platform architecture, data architecture, or distributed systems engineering, with a strong track record of building enterprise-scale platforms.\nProven experience designing and evolving enterprise platforms that support multiple engineering teams and business domains.\nDeep expertise in distributed systems, including execution models, state management, consistency, concurrency, resiliency, and failure recovery.\nStrong experience defining enterprise architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and governance frameworks within large, federated organisations.\nExpertise in control plane architecture, including identity, authorisation, policy enforcement, routing, auditability, and delegated machine-to-machine access controls.\nExperience designing canonical data models, ontologies, taxonomies, semantic frameworks, knowledge graphs, RDF models, or property graph architectures.\nExperience architecting large-scale data platforms leveraging lakehouse architectures, object storage, graph databases, vector databases, and NoSQL technologies.\nStrong understanding of AI platform engineering, model serving infrastructure, LLM deployment, retrieval architectures, observability, evaluation, and governance.\nExperience with agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, durable execution, agent state management, and tool integration patterns.\nExperience operating in regulated environments where security, privacy, compliance, auditability, and operational resilience drive architectural decisions.\nAbility to influence technology strategy, establish enterprise standards, and drive adoption across teams and functions.\nDegree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related discipline. Experience within banking, financial services, or regulated industries provides additional value.\nRole Specific Technical Competencies\nEnterprise AI Platform Architecture\nDistributed Systems Architecture\nAI Control Plane Design & Governance\nIdentity, Authorization & Security Architecture\nAgentic Systems & Orchestration Frameworks\nData Architecture & Semantic Modelling\nKnowledge Graphs, RDF & Ontologies\nLakehouse & Data Platform Architecture\nVector Database & Retrieval Architecture\nGraph Database Architecture\nEnterprise API & Service Architecture\nModel Serving & LLM Operations\nMulti-Cloud Architecture (Azure/AWS)\nKubernetes & Platform Engineering\nTechnology Governance & Architecture Assurance\nTechnical Writing & Executive Communication\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOur 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.\nTogether we:\nDo the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do\nNever settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well\nAre better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term\nWhat we offer\nIn line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.\nCore bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.\n 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.\nFlexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.\nProactive 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\nA continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.\nBeing 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.\nRecruitment Assessments\nSome of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. 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