Spl''st, IT Resilience

As an IT Resilience specialist focused on CIB Technology Resilience in one of the leading Global Banks, you will closely work with the domain resilience leads on resilience planning and improve the resilience posture for CIB. This will include performing end to end resilience assessments for the critical applications and having a thorough understanding of resilience design, operational and service management processes, technical architecture, data resilience and testing activities. Your primary objective is to help drive the CIB Technology Resilience agenda forward by providing able support and align the Resilience Standards.

Strategy
•    Awareness of the Group Technology Resilience standards. For external candidates, general awareness of the global Resilience standards

Business
•    Awareness and understanding of Technology Resilience controls like availability, failover, backup, restore and recovery. Also, understanding of IBS and ICS controls.

Processes
•    Responsible for maintaining the Resilience posture of CIB by working along with CIB domain resilience leads

People & Talent
•    Ensure end to end resilience assessment is done for all CIB critical applications
•    Ensure that capacity planning is done for CIB applications
•    Ensure restore and recovery plans are available / renewed on time for CIB applications and the same tested successfully
•    Work with Technology resilience teams in propagating resilience standards / changes to the CIO domains
•    Closely monitor the CIB IBS Health indexes and mitigate any breaches

Risk Management
•    Identify and mitigate any delays to timely review / renewal of capacity planning and restore & recovery planning and testing

Governance
•    To assist Technology Resilience domain teams in IBS mapping and in maintaining the IBS Health dashboard with timely inputs
•    Closely keep track of all capacity breaches and ensure timely mitigation / capacity review

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
•    CIB Domain Technology Resilience teams
•    CIB SRE Teams
•    Group Technology Resilience team

•    Education - Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
•    Certifications - Desirable (any resilience certification)
•    Languages - English

•    Python
•    Microsoft Excel
•    SQL
•    Power BI

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 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
• Are 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 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 - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.