Key Responsibilities

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

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

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead 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.] 
• 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) 

Key stakeholders
• CIB Trade ITO Team

Qualifications

• At least one (1) year of Kubernetes administration experience, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) credential(s) a plus but not required
• Linux preferably with RHCE v7/v8 certification
• Automation with Ansible and Terraform
• Observability with Prometheus and Grafana
• Cloud on AWS and/or Azure
• CI/CD of pipelines as code on Jenkins
• Scripting/Programming with Bash, Groovy, Python, Ruby and/or Go

Skills and Experience

1.    Hands-on Experience with Dremio:
•    Proven experience using Dremio for data lakehouse querying and data virtualization.
•    Familiarity with Dremio’s UI, SQL Runner, and dataset management.
•    Experience configuring reflections (data acceleration).
•    Experience in optimising Dremio deployments.
 
2.    Strong SQL Skills:
•    Proficient in writing complex SQL queries.
•    Understanding of query optimization and performance tuning in Dremio.
 
3.    Data Lakehouse and Cloud Storage Knowledge:
•    Familiarity with data lake storage formats (e.g., Parquet, ORC, Iceberg, Delta Lake).
•    Experience integrating Dremio with S3, ADLS, HDFS, or other object stores.
 
4.    Experience with BI/Analytics Tools (Optional but Nice to Have):
•    Experience connecting Dremio to BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Apache Superset).
 
5.    Certifications (Optional but Nice to Have):
•    Dremio University certifications.
•    Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, Azure Data Engineer).

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.