Job Summary

This role could be based in Poland and India. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The Cyber Security Principal Engineer will be a senior technical person responsible for delivering the bank’s unified cyber and financial crime monitoring platform. Working under the Cyber Platform Engineering Lead, this role will bridge engineering excellence, process maturity, and organizational collaboration to deliver a data-driven, cloud-native platform that underpins threat detection, fraud prevention, and financial crime analytics across the enterprise. Role will have influence on end to end architecture for security datalake and SIEM platforms. Role require depth engineering and security understanding.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, from architecture and design to deployment and operational readiness.
• Standardize ingestion and transformation processes using OCSF/Avro schemas and DevSecOps pipelines (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible).
• Implement continuous monitoring and observability frameworks across Databricks, Kafka, and cloud workloads.
• Embed secure eSDLC practices, ensuring compliance with internal audit and regulatory controls.
• Drive process automation to improve delivery efficiency, incident response, and data onboarding lifecycle
• Support Engineering Lead to establish and maintain governance structures for platform changes, data quality, and operational integrity.
• Support Engineering Lead to define technical and process standards to ensure consistency across global environments and regions.
• Support Engineering Lead to oversee risk management activities, ensuring alignment with cyber, compliance, and audit requirements
• Maintain transparent reporting and metrics on platform health, availability, and compliance posture.
• Ensure data residency and sovereignty requirements are met for all Financial Crime data processing and storage.

Our Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in cybersecurity or threat detection.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experienced in Scripting Knowledge (Bash / Python / SQL DB’s / API’s / PowerShell / Shell).
• Experienced in DevOps tool stack like Azure ADO, Jenkins, Git/bitbucket, SonarQube, Artifactory, application scanning software’s, docker registry to enable teams to adopt Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployments.
• Experience with DevOps & Automation tools like Puppet, Ansible, Terrafor.    
• Knowledge about Apache Nifi, Apache Kafka.
• Proven experience in Data Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in Security Datat analytics.
• High attention to detail and ability to manage complex projects.
• Proactive, adaptable, and results-driven mindset.
• Integrity, accountability, and a commitment to the organization’s values.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

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.