CSS Platform Engineering Team SRE LEAD (India & Malaysia)

Standard Chartered Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking a senior SRE/engineering leader within its PET SRE organization to drive operational resilience across cyber security platforms. The role emphasizes technical leadership, governance, and enterprise-wide accountability in a globally distributed Bank technology environment.

This senior position reports into Global Business Services and supports the Bank's critical security controls across EESP, VMIS and ASA platforms with a focus on scalable, reliable systems and

Qualifications

• Senior individual contributor or team lead with significant technical expertise.
• Experience delivering complex technology solutions and governance.

Skills

Technical leadership

Leadership

Complex problem-solving

Job description

This role could be based in India or Malaysia. When you start the application process youwill be presented with adrop-downmenu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based

The CSS PET SRE function has evolved from a traditional production support capability into a strategic Site Reliability Engineering function responsible for ensuring operational resilience across multiple cyber security platforms supporting the Bank’s critical security controls. The portfolio now spans EESP, VMIS and ASA, with significant expansion planned over the next 12–24 months through new platform onboarding, strategic transformation programmes, and ownership transitions from delivery teams into PET SRE. As the operational landscape grows in scale and complexity, the existing role has expanded significantly beyond traditional SRE responsibilities and now requires higher levels of technical leadership, governance, stakeholder management, and enterprise-wide operational accountability.

Technical Knowledge/Domain Skills:

• Advanced level proficiency in technical/domain skills
• Broad and/or deep understanding of sophisticated or specialized aspects
• Experience applying skills in the full range of typical situations and some more complex contexts

Leadership Skills:

• Core to Advanced level leadership skills are expected
• As you move up the bands, leadership skills become increasingly important alongside technical expertise

Key Characteristics:

• Complexity: Broad and/or deep understanding of sophisticated or specialized aspects of the technology domain
• Experience: Experience applying technical skills in varied situations, including some complex contexts
• Responsibility: Senior individual contributor or team lead role with significant technical expertise
• Technology Focus Areas:
  • System development and architecture
  • Technical leadership and mentoring
  • Complex problem-solving in technology solutions

Standard Chartered Global Business Services forms a critical component, enabling superior customer service by leveraging on scale and efficiency. The centre has evolved from being a cost-effective venture for Standard Chartered Bank to becoming an integral part of its operations and one of its Centres of Excellence.

Established in 2001, it now provides a multitude of services to Standard Chartered Bank which has a 150-year history in some of the world’s most dynamic markets. The centre provides dedicated world-class technology, software and system development, information technology support services, banking operations and customer care capabilities to businesses globally.

It now houses one of the largest software development centres in Malaysia as well as the Bank’s Collective Intelligence and Command Centre, a state-of-the‑art facility which provides situational awareness and response capability to Standard Chartered Bank and its subsidiaries using the latest technologies for monitoring and analytics. It has a total workforce of more than 4,300 employees.

Standard Chartered Global Business Services was conferred the ICT Organisation of The Year Award in 2011 by The National ICT Association of Malaysia, making it the first Global Shared Services Centre of an international bank in Malaysia to win the prestigious award. In 2014, Standard Chartered Global Business Services was awarded the Silver Award for the Employer of Choice category in the Malaysia HR Awards organised by the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management.

Standard Chartered Bank’s two other global shared services centres are based in India and China.

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Standard Chartered Global Business Services forms a critical component, enabling superior customer service by leveraging on scale and efficiency. The centre has evolved from being a cost-effective venture for Standard Chartered Bank to becoming an integral part of its operations and one of its Centres of Excellence.

Established in 2001, it now provides a multitude of services to Standard Chartered Bank which has a 150-year history in some of the world’s most dynamic markets. The centre provides dedicated world-class technology, software and system development, information technology support services, banking operations and customer care capabilities to businesses globally.

It now houses one of the largest software development centres in Malaysia as well as the Bank’s Collective Intelligence and Command Centre, a state-of-the‑art facility which provides situational awareness and response capability to Standard Chartered Bank and its subsidiaries using the latest technologies for monitoring and analytics. It has a total workforce of more than 4,300 employees.

Standard Chartered Global Business Services was conferred the ICT Organisation of The Year Award in 2011 by The National ICT Association of Malaysia, making it the first Global Shared Services Centre of an international bank in Malaysia to win the prestigious award. In 2014, Standard Chartered Global Business Services was awarded the Silver Award for the Employer of Choice category in the Malaysia HR Awards organised by the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management.

Standard Chartered Bank’s two other global shared services centres are based in India and China.

Follow Standard Chartered Global Business Services on www.facebook.com/scgbs