Head, Cloud Core Engineering

Job Summary
• A great opportunity to lead Core Engineering for the Public Cloud at Standard Chartered bank. This role reports directly to the Global Head of Cloud Infrastructure.
• The head of Cloud Core Engineering is responsible for performance, reliability of the public cloud Infrastructure of Standard Chartered Bank. The role ensures the efficient delivery of cloud services, driving automation, cost optimisation, and scalability.
• The successful applicant will be accountable for engineering, including engineering improvements and enhancements required to the day 2 operations of the platform.

Strategy
• Design enterprise-grade cloud landing zones for AWS and Azure, including identity, networking, security, logging, monitoring, policy, tagging, and cost controls.
• Manage the relationship with both AWS and Azure
• Process definition for Cloud Management
• Lead the creation and management of cloud products and services such as:
o Standard compute platforms
o Container platforms
o Database platforms
o Storage services
o Network connectivity services
o Observability services
o Secure deployment pipelines
o Backup and databunker services

Key Responsibilities

Business
• Build, operate, and continuously improve global public cloud platforms that enable secure, standardized, and self-service consumption.
• Take accountability for all services being delivered with automated or self-service day 2 operations into account, reducing the dependencies for Cloud Operations
• Focus on Cloud resource management and building tooling to ensure optimized utilization of Standard Chartered's cloud resources globally
• Establish reusable platform services, golden patterns, blueprints, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering practices to improve developer productivity, engineering consistency, and deployment velocity.
• Own, maintain the cloud core foundation across AWS & Azure
• Ensure the core is efficient, easy to off/onboard and resilient

Processes
• Accountable for definition and delivery of cloud management process. Additionally the process delegate for Cloud Management, which encompasses the following
o Cloud Operations and stability
o Cloud engineering
o Cloud Governance
o Cloud Security
o Cloud commissioning and decommissioning

People & Talent
• Lead through example. Demonstrate technical and people leadership
• Build a culture that aligns to banks values and behaviours. Ensure staff ahead and remain compliant with the banks policies and procedures
• Needs to empower workforce but be able to step in when needed to course correct
• Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workforce. Ensure psychological safety.
• Foster a collaborative and partnership driven 'better together' ethos across the function and wider partners
• Promote innovation and agile delivery
• Ensure the function has the appropriate balance between operations and engineering skills. Promote an engineering culture
• Employ, engage, develop and retain high quality people.

Risk Management
• Own the risks linked to the delivery of code into production
• Own the risks linked to the maintenance of code in production
• Own the end-to-end risks associated with the dev/test environments and the requisite tooling
• Drive for the closure of risks, operational events and audit findings on time, once and done
• Educate the team on risk management and continual mitigating of risk
• Comply with organisation risk management framework
• Find automated solutions to reduce risk and prevent human and manual solutions

Governance
• Ensure the value determination & realizations for workload migrations to cloud
• Ensure compliance with all applicable SC governance frameworks
• Adhere to and optimise cloud governance frameworks and processes
• Stay aware of changing regulatory landscape so that we can proactively manage the emerging requirements for workloads
• 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 and anti-money laundering 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
• Global Head, Software Engineering
• Head, Networks
• Head, Infrastructure delivery
• Global Head, Cyber Security Operations
• Global Head, Cyber Advisory, Assessment & Testing
• Head of Infrastructure Architecture,
• Distinguished Engineers
• Head, Cloud Regulatory Governance

Our Ideal Candidate
• Computer Science/Computer engineering degree with 15+ years of experience in cloud or related technologies
• Deep experience with enterprise-scale multi-account AWS and multi-subscription Azure operating models.
• Strong understanding of AWS and Azure reference architectures, landing zones, control planes, management groups, account structures, and cloud-native design principles.
• Proven ability to define cloud engineering standards aligned to:
o AWS Well-Architected Framework
o Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
o Azure Well-Architected Framework
o Enterprise architecture principles
o Security and regulatory requirements

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Resource Management
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Platforms

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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