Lead Culture and Transformation Craftsman

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.Role Responsibilities Strategy Culture and Transformation Master Craftsman
• Setup Agile Teams in, Chennai & Bangalore for tech deliveries across FSTS.
• Define and manage the Agile transformation program and champion the sustainability of best practices for Agile in line with the new Agile standards defined by the Bank.
• Embed Agile methodology and principles in the enterprise, reflected in mindset and culture changes.
• Responsible for the direct oversight and coordination of the multiyear Agile transformation portfolio.
• Define scope, timelines, value proposition for delivery planning of projects and entire Agile transformation program.
• Develop strong, effective working relationships with Business Line and key stakeholders to effectively execute projects and embed Agile sustainability practices.
• Identify training and other change initiatives to prepare the overall organization for the adoption of an Agile methodology.
• Define key metrics and develop an approach for capturing the benefits of the Agile approach.
• Lead a group of Scrum of Scrum masters.
• Ensuring the build team adheres to the engagement model and that it is engrained in their DNA to deliver the release / deployment tasks with the associated documentation whilst maintaining a close customer relationship.
• Business
• Collaborate on the creation and implementation of an effective Agile Architecture Operating Model, transformation roadmap and drive supporting activities.
• Develop and monitor metrics to track the progress of Agile Architecture adoption, enablement, scaling and maturity to aid in accelerating overall transformation efforts.
• Review and define Architecture standards and best practices.
• Advance best practices for scaling and optimizing Agile practices in the organization.
• Develop and implement Agile Assessment Framework (AAF) to provide development inputs/data for capability development.
• Guide and promote the adoption and application of Scrum and Agile principles, practices, values, tools.
• Facilitate Big Room planning events with cross functional and leadership teams to align on outcomes, priorities and resource allocation for innovation and architecture groups.
• Ensure agile architecture of one short- and long-term Transformation for the Bank.
• Identify technology bottlenecks in around culture and specify optimization / automation to be implemented.
• Partners with other technology teams in the Bank including Security, Networks, and others to ensure shared transformation is designed properly.
Drive engineering practice outcomes, partnering with enterprise technology teams, ex
• Democratise and establish continuous delivery process
• Evaluate new practices for adoption across the enterprise.
• Performing agile design and reviews.
• Provide feedback to product owners on strategic initiatives.
• Introduce & support emerging technology and best market practices which accelerate time to market and ensure effective client experiences.
Processes
• Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, Data, Cloud and Technology Governance to follow appropriate policies, procedures, and controls for enablement of nWoW Standards.
• Contribute to the selection process for future Distinguished Engineer cohorts within the organisation.
• Help maintain the Engineering standards across the industry.
• Remediate or provide expertise on initiatives with significant best practices around technology challenges.
Innovation Opportunities and Impediments Resolution
• Work with cross functional projects teams and leadership teams to identify innovation opportunities and process improvements.
• Collaborate with others to remove impediments and agree on conflict resolution methods across strategic projects and related processes.
• Facilitate critical retrospectives (as brainstorming and training sessions) to identify organizational improvements.
Design Thinking
• Motivate team members to try out new out-of-the box approaches without taking undue risks.
• Lift overall maturity levels to demonstrate sustainable performance gains.
People and Talent
• Lead through example and build the engineering culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team and stakeholders.
• Form Community of Practise across the group, mentor and scale the team.
• Provides mentorship and guidance for our team around software life cycle and enterprise agility.
• Is open-minded, a team player, and excited by Agile Enterprise Transformation challenges in an innovative working environment.
• Drive creation and provide ongoing input and support for the delivery of technology talent programmes.
• Develop and nurture an extensive internal and external network of agilist.
• Create a positive impact in the organisation and across the industry by sharing knowledge and expertise with others.
• Source knowledge and expertise for own initiatives and in supporting others to achieve their initiatives.
• Develop organisational capability with agile values and strategies.
• Have a positive impact on relevant technology communities.
• Perform a vital communication role within the organisation on enterprise agility and transformation.
• Create strong relationships with the business and ensure the flow of information between technology and the business.
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Keyskills :
life insurancelife cyclehuman skillskeeping things simplekey metricssupporting others