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This position is integral to the implementation and governance of advanced authorisation policies designed to secure enterprise operations. You will translate complex business, regulatory, risk, and security requirements into machine-consumable, enforceable policy artefacts that cover a broad range of identities including human users, machines, privileged accounts, digital agents, and emerging AI entities.\nAs a specialist in policy-based access control (PBAC), you will lead the integration of this framework into our security infrastructure, ensuring our authorisation solutions are precise, auditable, and scalable across hybrid enterprise environments. This role champions a disciplined engineering approach to authorisation-ensuring traceability and testability from policy specification through enforcement. You will collaborate with diverse technical teams and stakeholders to develop robust access governance, specifically focusing on agent delegation, trust boundaries, Identity Provider (IdP) integration, and continuous delivery of policy lifecycle management.\nIdeal candidates are passionate about innovation in cyber security, eager to address challenges related to AI governance and secure identity management in a dynamic financial services context. Join us in shaping the future of secure access controls and digital trust at Standard Chartered.\nKey Responsibilities\nIn this leadership role, you will be responsible for architecting and managing enterprise-wide authorisation policies based on Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) principles. Your key accountabilities include:\nDesigning, engineering, and governing scalable authorisation policies aligned with business objectives, regulatory mandates, and security standards.\nTranslating complex risk and compliance requirements into automated, executable policy artefacts that enable consistent and enforceable access decisions.\nDeveloping and maintaining detailed machine-readable policy components such as roles, user attributes, contextual conditions, constraints, and delegation protocols.\nCreating reusable policy templates and comprehensive reference frameworks that standardise policy deployment and reduce implementation complexity.\nEnsuring full lifecycle traceability across all policy artefacts, enforcement points, decision logs, and audit trails to support compliance and incident investigations.\nDriving semantic integrity across policy ecosystems by eliminating contradictions and ambiguities in policy rules.\nEstablishing governance models for delegated authorization involving AI agents, service principals, and machine identities, ensuring accountability and trust boundary enforcement.\nImplementing security guardrails to prevent privilege escalation, policy circumvention, and to manage delegation securely.\nSkills and Experience\nEssential Skills and Experience\nComprehensive experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, with proven expertise in designing and implementing Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) models.\nProficient in Policy-as-Code methodologies, enabling automated and version-controlled policy deployment and validation.\nHands-on knowledge of OAuth frameworks and on-behalf-of (OBO) delegation models.\nExperience integrating Identity Providers (IdPs) and Identity Governance solutions within complex enterprise environments.\nFamiliarity with authorization controls specifically applied to emerging agentic AI environments.\nDesirable Competencies\nAbility to translate high-level security and compliance requirements into precise policy statements.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills to work cross-functionally with technical teams, stakeholders, and regulators.\nExperience in architecting scalable governance frameworks enabling secure and auditable delegation of privileges.\nMotivations\nDriven by solving emerging authorization challenges, shaping agentic Identity, policy-driven governance, and enabling secure innovation. Thrives in environments requiring deep technical expertise, stakeholder engagement, and measurable improvements in security and operational effectiveness.\nQualifications\nExperience Requirements: 10-12+ years of progressive experience in Cyber Security and Identity & Access Management, demonstrating leadership in authorisation strategy development, policy engineering, and policy-based access control (PBAC) implementations. Proven track record in architecting enterprise-scale authorization frameworks accommodating human users, machines, and AI agents.\nEducational Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or related fields is required.\nRelevant security certifications are highly valued and may include CISSP, Microsoft SC-100/SC-300, CSPO/SAFe agile certifications, or recognised cloud security credentials such as AZ-500 or CCSP.\nStrong familiarity with emerging technologies including Agentic AI authorization, trust engineering principles, and leading enterprise identity platforms will significantly enhance a candidate’s suitability.\nLanguage Proficiency: Professional proficiency in English is essential for effective communication across global teams and stakeholders.\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOver 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.\nWhat We Offer\nBeing part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.\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 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