JOB SUMMAR

This role will be responsible for developing global key strategy and standards for NAS, Block and Object Storage in Standard Chartered Bank, taking into consideration all available technologies and business requirements. It will be a senior role responsible for the design and planning Standard Chartered Bank’s storage technologies and providing the correct levels of security and resilience standards for operation teams implementation.  Additionally, this role will play major role in working on an archival strategy and providing senior level coverage across the domain, as well as liaising with the architects on the design and roadmap. 

Key Responsibilities

• Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
• Identify & recommend new products or technology that can add value to the organization and align to the storage strategic goals.
• Work with Security Technology Services to ensure Storage architecture design/solutions can meet bank security standards.
• Develop RFPs/RFIs, oversee product evaluations, coordinate product selections, ensuring pricing, terms and conditions meet bank IT standards.
• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the group operates.
• As a critical technology service for the bank, ensure Storage architecture design have high availability to remains stable and performing optimally. 
• Gain a deep understanding of business objectives and priorities. 
• Ensure that Storage Engineering complies with the Technology Services processes within the Architecture Framework. These include, Security Architecture & Capability Authority (SACA), Technology Services Technology Council (TSTC) and Infrastructure Architecture Standards.
• Ensure the team always follows operational best practices. Ensure the highest levels of ownership, accountability and service are maintained within the team.
• Review, uphold and enforce all Bank technical, security, quality, and engineering standards on supported products.
• Ensure compliance with Bank ITSM processes such as Incident, Change and Problem Management.
• Manage Storage product lifecycle (support dates, investment status), features, bugs, CVE’s and security standards.
• Proactively identify risks and issues or react to them in a timely manner to minimise any potential impact. Create and implement remediate plans to resolve any non-compliance.
• Support auditory, regulatory and risk and compliance initiatives that contain deliverables related to the Storage Engineering.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor of Science required.
• Knowledge of Netapp ONTAP 9, Hardware and Snapmirror data protection.
• Skill with S3 Object Storage solutions and integration.
• Technical knowledge of SAN Storage (Hitachi/Pure/Dell). 
• Technical knowledge of Backup (Cohesity/Networker/NetBackup/Arcseve).
• Architecture, design, implementation and support of Storage Solutions.
• Storage Security and Standards.
• Software skillsn Python with experience in Scripting – BASH, KSH, PowerShell.
• Understand and be proficient with Automation using REST API or CLI integration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills.
• Advanced Business English.

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.