This role is responsible for:

• designing and developing repeatable on-premise and hybrid cloud architectures through the combination of best practices on infrastructure as codes, orchestrations, toolings, CI/CD, GitOps, etc.;
• utilising these architectures from development to production environments;
• making reference implementations for these architectures;
• and continuously improve these architectures to adopt the growing demands in both internal and external customers/stakeholders.
• The potential candidate for this role should:
• be the technical lead for the team on anything related to DevOps and Cloud infrastructures;
• drive engagement and motivate the team to success;
• be committed to continuously challenge self for the better;
• adhere to small and consistent increments that can deliver value and impact to the business;
• have Agile and growth mindsets;and strive for excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of Trade Finance, the wider business, economic, and market environment in which the Group operates.

Processes

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s change management processes and DevOps practices.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.  Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
• Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s risk management processes and practices.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank’s governance frameworks applicable to Trade Finance and practices that support them.

Key stakeholders

• CIB Trade ITO Team

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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Serve as a Director of the Board 
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in team 
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
• Multiple functions (double hats)
   

Skills and Experience

• System Administration (GNU/Linux, *nix)
• On-demand Infrastructure/Cloud Computing, Storage, and Infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Virtualization, Containerisation, and Orchestration (Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) and Automation (Jenkins, Ansible)
• Project Management
• Infrastructure/service monitoring and log aggregation design and implementation (Appdynamics, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc)
• Distributed data processing frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, etc), big data platforms (EMR, HDInsight, etc)
• NoSQL and RDBMS Design and Administration (MongoDB Official notification