VP, Chapter Lead, ODM (Wealth Advisory)

Standard Chartered; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in London seeks a Product Specialist to drive solutions and innovate within the Wealth Journey. This role involves leading a high-performance team, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring compliance with standards. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in IT or related fields and 10-12 years of relevant experience. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, along with flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Parental leave

Continuous learning opportunities

Proactive wellbeing support

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of working experience in IT industry.
• Experience in Wealth technology & IBM ODM is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of modern technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-performance team to deliver outcomes.
• Contribute to squad delivery in product delivery.
• Ensure adherence to Change Delivery Standards.

Skills

Understanding of Wealth Journey

Technical understanding of product architecture

Agile methodologies experience

Technical troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

IBM WebSphere

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Summary

Product Specialist is the driver of solution to the business requirement or user journey. The job holder has sound understanding on the product capabilities of the system/platform and able to drive solution with product owner, architect, vendor and supporting technology team. The job holder possesses deep product knowledge with strong technical skills to work on product innovation along with team and product vendors (IBM ODM). They work with product owner to derive product/system roadmap to deliver fit for purpose capabilities. This person should also be committed to the discovery and development of innovative solutions in an ever-changing digital landscape in banking industry.

This is a People Leader role. Experiences in building high performance team or team management would be required.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Execution of functional standards and best practices
• Acts as a conduit for the wider domain strategy, for example technical standards.
• Prioritises and makes available capacity for technical debt.

Business

• Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft (Eg. Engineering).
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.

Processes

• Adopt and embed the Change Delivery Standards throughout the lifecycle of the product / service.
• Follows the chapter operating model to ensure a system exists to continue to build capability and performance of the chapter.

People & Talent

• Develop and manage a high performance team to effectively deliver outcome.
• Responsible team are well equipped with right skilled individuals.

Risk Management

• Follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their chapter domain.
• Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain.

Governance

• Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., SCB Governance Standards, ESDLC etc.).

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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Architect, Engineering Leads.
• Global Wealth Management Digital Owners, for business priority and initiatives.
• Business & Technology Managers, for solution design and delivery.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Wealth Journey squad;
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Skills and Experience

Software Product Business Knowledge

• Strong understanding of Wealth Journey and WM Sales Governance processes (onboarding New to Wealth customers, risk profiling, pre/post trade compliance check, portfolio performance and etc)

Software Product Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of Wealth Journey Platform architecture, functionality, and capabilities, with hands‑on experience in solution design, configuration, customisation, and integration.
• Application servers – IBM WebSphere, JBOSS
• Databases – Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL
• Container Platform – OCP, AKS, EKS
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Change Request Management
• Application Delivery Process
• Technical Troubleshooting

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree, or higher, in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Training

• At least 10 to 12 years of working experience in IT industry
• Strong understanding of modern technology stack, with hands‑on experience in solution design, configuration, customisation, and integration; supported by good technical skills.
• Prior experience on Wealth technology & IBM ODM product would be added advantages

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.