Senior Solutions Architect -Trade Finance

at  Standard Chartered

JOB SUMMARY

• Standard Chartered Bank aspires to uplift the Trade Technology estate to modern architecture to provide solid foundation for business. This role is pivotal to meet these outcomes. During the definition phase, As a seasoned architecture professional, Trade architect will be responsible for leading the “to-be” architecture definition in partnership with business, ops and technology teams. During the implementation phase he/she will lead solution effort to ensure that solution not only meets functional / non-functional requirements but also architecture strategy/standards/patterns and engineering principles .He/she will also influence enterprise tech/architecture standards as Domain architect and contribute actively to group-wide initiatives.

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

RESPONSIBILITIES

• About Standard Chartered Bank: We are a leading International bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
• To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It’s about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.
• We’re committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realize their` full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
• Background: Standard Chartered Bank is undergoing major Trade transformation journey to replace legacy apps with modern tech infra to provide solid foundation for business

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with business, product, tech, delivery, and others to define the target, roadmap and periodically refresh the same
• Drive standardization of applications, elimination of duplication and reduction of costs within domain from technology / architecture perspective
• Define architecture principles , reusable patterns, integration standards and guardrails for the domain and work closely with the development teams to implement the same
• Drive domain APIs design and adoption
• Evaluate different solution options for business requirements and recommend best option to move forward
• Keeping track of industry developments, conducting R&D to incorporate best in class practices and methodologies and sharing the same with team and stakeholders.
• Chair and run governance forums – Architecture review forum, tech design authority to provide guidance and govern that investment dollars actually move towards target state
• Align architecture across different domains within bank from integration standard perspectives, to eliminate frictions and enable teams move forward
• Create / Review solution intent documents from perspectives including stability, resilience, performance, recoverability , availability , scale, DR and security.
• Lead domain architecture in group wide initiatives
• Evaluate vendor solutions during RFP process and propose the best fit approach
• Guide and coach development teams and junior architects to meet architecture outcomes.
• Eliminate decision stall by aligning solutions / strategy with different domains
• Participate in code reviews, assist & mentor team on technical aspects.
• Act as an SME on trade management technologies

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of Trade management
• Architectural experience in large Trade transformation
• Domain architecture, target state, roadmaps , Domain APIs
• Trade as a service experience
• Architecture patterns and engineering principles
• Data strategy
• Integration / interoperability
• Communication Skills
• Demonstrated proficiency across key technologies
• Excellent executive presence and leadership
• Strong conviction and ability to drive to the right target not necessarily the easy on