Product Owner - Partnerships

Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

Job SummaryWe are looking for a Product Owner (PO), who will be an empowered decision maker, responsible for maximizing the business value of the work of the Squad. The PO will own and manage product backlog and is ultimately accountable for the successful delivery of the Partnership build & platform.Our group delivers customers journeys related to Open Banking & FinTech Partnerships. These customer journeys are delivered using Open APIs, File Transfer Programs, and customer facing digital channels such as mobile & internet banking applications. Our external stakeholders are digital banking leads from our markets, banking regulators & large FinTech companies.Our ideal candidate will have following attributes:

Is from fintech or financial services sector
Has 10+ years of experience
Has technical background having played development role for few years
Has extensive knowledge of APIs
Understands basics of AWS based cloud computing & application containerization
Can write SQL queries
Can make Pivot tables in Excel
Can draw system interactions & data flows diagrams
Is a master communicator - speaking & writing.
Can report progress using PowerPoint to management team
Can breakdown work into epics, features, and user stories
Can lead a product squad of 10-15 squad members
Can comprehend policy documents of the bank & regulators
Familiar with basics of project financials - Capex, Opex, and Accruals

Key ResponsibilitiesStrategy: Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy for open banking and partnerships. Align product strategy to the same.Business: Awareness and understanding of the corporate plan targets for partnerships including new customers, ending net receivables, revenue, and operating profitProcesses: Awareness and understanding of governance processes such as delivery risk assessment & change risk assessment, and operational risk assessment of the projectPeople & Talent: Lead the squad through example and build the appropriate culture and values.Risk Management: Identify key risks & issues for project and put in place appropriate controls and measures. Timely closure of cybersecurity (ICS) risksGovernance: Adherence to project governance framework including executing project on budget, providing accurate budget forecasts, Azure DevOps (ADO) user story hygiene, allocation of timesheet, ensuring pre-Go Live checks such as architecture & tech council approvals, SIA, UAT sign off, and updating Customer Go-Live (CGL) in project management system (Clarity).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

Collaborate with digital leads of FinTech companies to design system integrations for partnership business
Collaborate with Banking regulators on matters related to open banking regulations, and business process outsourcing for partnerships
Work with Hive lead, WRB Head & Digital leads of our markets to meet partnership targets & open banking commitments

Skills and Experience

SQL
API
Cloud Computing
Application Containerization
Encryption & Digital Signature
Excel

Qualifications

EDUCATION BCA, MCA, B-Tech (Computer Science), or MBA
CERTIFICATIONS Agile Practitioner, Certified Product Owner, AWS Certification, or Kubernetes Certification
LANGUAGES English

About Standard CharteredWe'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

What we offerIn 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.

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