Lead, Cloud Migration Services

About the position

The role requires the individual to lead cloud migration squads to deliver workload migrations and deployments to cloud. This position is pivotal to drive the workload migration and deployments on the cloud, working closely with CIO application teams to make the migration process easy and efficient.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive migration strategies for transitioning on-premise applications to Cloud.
• Conduct detailed assessments of existing infrastructure, applications, and workloads to determine migration feasibility and required changes.
• Be an interface with CIO application teams to deploy and migrate workloads to cloud.
• Support the banks strategy to consolidate the data centre footprint and enable migrations to cloud.
• Support the cloud migrations to generate value for the bank and drive the ROTE.
• Forge trusted partnerships with domain architects and CIO application teams to drive the migrations to cloud.
• Define migration timelines, budgets, and milestones in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Identify new and upcoming requirements to support workloads and work closely with platform engineering teams to enable the required capabilities.
• Implement automation for migration tasks using tools like AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate or third-party solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Standard Chartered governance frameworks and challenge them where appropriate.
• Keep program management teams in-tune with statuses and risks during change delivery.
• Comply with organisation risk management framework.
• Partner with CIO application engineering teams to reduce risk and prevent manual solutions.
• Work closely with risk counterparts across technology, cyber and other areas for safe deployment of workloads to cloud.
• Ensure the value determination & realizations for workload migrations to cloud.
• Adhere to and optimise cloud governance frameworks and processes.
• Stay aware of changing regulatory landscape so that we can proactively manage the emerging requirements for workloads.
• 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.
• Lead the Cloud migration team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matter.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in enterprise Cloud / Container infrastructure at senior level with focus on enabling multiple teams and collaborating with platform architecture and security.
• Education - Bachelor of Engineering.
• Training - CLOUD, SECURITY, AI/ML, FINOPS.
• Certifications - AWS, AZURE.
• Languages - PYTHON, INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE.

Nice-to-haves

• Software Engineering
• Generate business value through technology
• Strategic thinking
• Thought Leadership
• Cloud Architecture
• Cloud Technologies
• Application Modernization
• Resiliency and Security
• Cloud Regulations
• DevOps
• Agile
• API
• Leadership
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Advocacy

Benefits

• 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.