Job Summary

The Lead, Data Architecture is responsible for designing, creating, deploying, and managing the organization's data architecture. This role focuses on data modeling, database design, frameworks and data integration to ensure the efficient and secure handling of data across the organization, as well as data governance. Collaborating closely with data engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, and tech teams, the Lead, Data Architecture is a key contributor to data, analytics and AI within the bank.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Contribute to the development and execution of the data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the bank’s strategy on data, technology roadmap and business goals.
•    Design and document data models, architectural patterns, and integration approaches. 
•    Evaluate and recommend data technologies, tools, platforms, and analytics tools.
•    Ensure architectural consistency across domains and platforms. 

Business
•    Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to develop technology policies, standards, guidelines and best practices for effective data management and data governance aligned to the data governance and data management policies, standards and guidelines as defined by the Chief Data Office (CDO).
•    Help communicate architectural decisions in a clear, business-relevant manner.
•    Translate business requirements into technical data architecture solutions.
•    Support the definition of strategic data roadmap.

Processes
•    Ensure data architecture standards and ensure adherence to data governance policies. 
•    Contribute to the development and enforcement of data architecture standards, principles, and best practices to ensure consistency across organization.
•    Implement process for managing the complete data lifecycle, from acquisition and storage to transformation, archival and deletion.

People & Talent 
•    The role will report to Head, Data Architecture
•    Contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing by staying current on modern data architecture trends and practices. 
•    Mentor and guide data engineers and analysts to ensure alignment with strategic vision.
•    Build and lead the data architecture practice, set in place a succession plan to grow the next generation of data architects for SCB.

Risk Management
•    Responsible for proactively seeking regular assurance that function is performing to an acceptable risk and control standards.
•    Responsible to act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees. 
•    Responsible to balance business performance delivery and cost management with risk and control matters to ensure that it does not materially threaten the Group, remaining within risk appetite.
•    Responsible to work in collaboration with risk and control teams.

Key Responsibilities

Governance 
•    Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes PRA SS2/21, SS2/22 as well as local banking laws and other regulatory laws as applicable.
•    Ensure compliance with all salient SCB data governance frameworks where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream. 

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 Data Architecture 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.

Key stakeholders
•    Chief Data Officer & CDO’s office
•    Domain COOs & COO offices
•    Domain Chief Architects and teams
•    Domain CIOs and CIO delivery teams
•    Data Architecture & Platforms teams
•    Technology & Architecture (T&A) MT

Other Responsibilities
•    Embrace and practise SCB’s brand promise of Here for Good and corporate values.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
•    Responsible for building a culture of good conduct.

Skills and Experience

Data Architecture
Data Governance
Logical Data Modeling
Information Management
IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
Big Data Management

Qualifications

•    Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 20 or more years of total experience.
•    Expertise in designing logical, physical, and conceptual data models.
•    Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large-scale, enterprise level data systems. 
•    Understanding of data governance tools and frameworks and regulatory compliance standards
•    Experience in large, complex organisations, ability to handle cultural diversity and managing senior stakeholders.
•    Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
•    Experience in regulatory expertise like GDPR, AML, KYC, Financial Regulatory Reporting, and Core Banking is a critical differentiator.
•    Strong knowledge of the banking and financial services industry.

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.