If you are not an engineer, cannot code, and are unable to motivate the organisation on the benefits of cloud, this role is not for you.
This role is for the engineering leader fluent in cloud services and workloads with an entrepreneurial spirit and an inspiration to all aspiring engineers. The role requires the individual to own the cloud pipeline for the bank world-wide and champion the workload migrations and deployments to cloud.
The ownership of cloud migration services is to drive the consumption on cloud meeting our commitments with the cloud service providers ensuring that we meet consumption targets while ensuring the value creation and benefits for the bank.
The role is pivotal to drive the workload migration and deployments on the cloud, working closely with CIO application teams to make the migration process easy and efficient.

Strategy

• Own, maintain and manage the cloud migration strategy for workloads
• Be the primary interface with CIO application teams to deploy and migrate workloads to cloud
• Engage external community such as cloud service providers to drive strategic value and innovation for the bank and continuously identify opportunities
• Partner with CIO application teams to empathise with challenges and drive tangible improvements for the cloud platform
• Support the banks strategy to consolidate the data centre footprint and enable migrations to cloud

Business

• Own, maintain and manage the cloud pipeline for the bank across all cloud service providers
• Support the cloud migrations to generate value for the bank and drive the ROTE
• Forge trusted partnerships with domain architects and CIO application teams to drive the migrations to cloud
• Work with architects and engineers and co-create the designs for cloud migrations aligned with cloud platform and patterns
• Identify new and upcoming requirements to support workloads and work closely with platform engineering teams to enable the required capabilities
• Take continuous feedback from architects and engineers and improve the platform to enable faster migrations
• Find automated solutions for application and data migrations to cloud, prevent manual solutions
• Unlock innovations (technical or otherwise) to delight our business partners
• Be responsible for the cloud consumption targets

Processes

• Work with Technology Governance to issue appropriate policies, procedures and quality checks for operating and servicing cloud workloads across the bank
• Have awareness of and understand the relevant regulation for the markets in which the bank operates such as sovereignty and resilience.
• Ensure compliance with Standard Chartered governance frameworks and challenge them where appropriate.
• Keep program management teams in-tune with statuses and risks during change delivery

People & Talent

• The leader is an engineer at heart and keeps a lean, motivated and highly skilled team of cloud engineers that together are obsessed with customer (internal or external) needs
• The team believes and advocates efficiency as a continuous engineering challenge not a commercial ambition
• Drives a deep sense of entrepreneurialism into the team to endlessly pursue opportunities with the cloud for the bank
• The team of talented engineers has it drilled into them that their success also pivots on the ability for other engineers to deploy workloads on the cloud platform easily and seamlessly
• Be an inspiration to other engineers attracting and developing new talent to the organisation and managing poor performers
• Keep a list of practical yet challenging objectives and measures for the team and individuals to target

Risk Management

• Comply with organisation risk management framework
• Partner with CIO application engineering teams to reduce risk and prevent manual solutions
• Work closely with risk counterparts across technology, cyber and other areas for safe deployment of workloads to cloud

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.
• Responsibility for building a culture of good Conduct within the team.
• 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 Cloud migration team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matter.
• Responsibility for risk, control and Conduct in the function and providing oversight over the risk, control and Conduct in the function.
• Responsibility for adherence to the Mandatory Conduct Requirements and demonstrating positive risk, control and Conduct behaviours as part of their role. Examples include:

o Timely escalation and proactive management and mitigation of risks and issues.
o Sharing lessons learnt with colleagues to prevent future errors.
o Raising concerns and dealing with mistakes in a timely manner and encouraging others to speak up.
o Cooperating fully with requests from regulators and Group Internal Audit.
o Promoting an inclusive culture, encouraging colleagues to act ethically, learn from mistakes, and set the right example to their teams.
o Responsibility to conduct and complete the Mandatory Conduct Affirmation (MCA) annually, as part of the year- end review to affirm the following:
o Risk & control and Conduct behaviours have been considered and assessed as part of continuous performance management.
o Colleagues approach to risk, control and Conduct was considered when making Total Variable Compensation (TVC) proposals during year-end review.
o Responsibility for recognizing and providing positive feedback through feedback 365 channels and Going the Extra Mile (GEM) award

Key stakeholders

• Global Head, Cloud Platform
• Global Head, Software Engineering
• Applications owners across CIB, WRB, Functions
• Application owners across CDO, ICS and Countries
• Chief Architect, Security, Data and Countries
• Chief Architect, CIB, WRB and Group Functions
• Head of Architecture, Cloud Platform
• Head, Cloud Platform Engineering
• Head, Cloud Platform Services
• Distinguished Engineers
• Head, Cloud Regulatory Governance
• CISO, CIB, Core Technology & Functions
• CISO, WRB & Markets

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