Automation Architect-2400002409

Role Responsibilities 

The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Automation Architect to join our team. If you have a deep understanding of software architecture, the latest design principles, extensive knowledge of cloud service providers (CSPs) such as AWS and Azure, and rich experience in integrating SaaS tools with focus on scalability, performance, and data protection, we want to hear from you.

Strategy

• Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank’s software delivery pipeline.

Business

• This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

Processes

• Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement.

People & Talent

• Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery. Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support. Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

Risk Management

• Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance

• Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

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.

Key stakeholders

• Governance representatives of SDLC methods
• Delivery Leads of central DevOps Pipeline
• Engineering Community

QUALIFICATIONS

• We expect our team members to be better than the average Developer or Engineer, as our role is to fix what they cannot, to solve the problems they think are impossible, and to guide them through solutions or approaches.

The soft skills we are looking for include:

• Eagerness to learn – curious, self-learning, then applying
• Problem Solving Skills – Creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking
• Big-Picture Thinking – maintainability, testability, usability, performance etc.
• Positive Attitude – passion for the task and achieving a solution
• Communication Skills – explain, influence, listen, document thinking
• Independence - Ability to work and deliver unsupervised, a self-starter
• Discipline - to chase down solutions to resolution, to deliver quality

The hard:

• 8-10 years of proven experience with multiple CSPs, including AWS and Azure, and relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
• In-depth knowledge of integration architecture patterns, performance optimization techniques, and data protection strategies.
• Define and implement cutting-edge software architecture solutions that align with the latest industry trends and best practices.
• Lead architectural design efforts, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into architectural solutions.
• Design and implement secure and scalable cloud architectures on CSPs like AWS and Azure.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, guidelines, and best practices.
• Lead and mentor a team of architects and engineers to drive architectural excellence.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide guidance to ensure adherence to architectural principles.
• Evaluate and recommend tools for integration, performance optimization, and data protection.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, CSP updates, and industry trends to continuously improve architecture practices.
• Relevant architecture-related certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional) are a plus.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• Hands-on experience in architecting and designing complex, scalable, performant and fault tolerant software systems
• Good knowledge of various design and architecture patterns for deploying enterprise applications
• Hands-on development experience with any one of the programming language - C/C++ / Java / C# / Python / Go / Rust is desirable