AVP, Chapter lead, Engineering - LARC

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• *Requisition Number:** 58509

• *Job Location:** Bangalore, IND

• *Global Grade:** Band 5

• *Work Type:** Office Working

• *Employment Type:** Permanent

• *Posting Start Date:** 17/07/2026

• *Posting End Date:** 07/08/2026

Job Summary

The AVP – Engineering Lead is responsible for leading end to end design, development, and delivery of technology solutions for \[business/domain]. The role oversees multiple engineering squads, ensuring high quality, secure, scalable software that aligns with enterprise architecture, risk, and regulatory standards. The AVP acts as a technical leader, people manager, and key partner to Product, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership \& Delivery

Own delivery of complex applications/platforms from design to production support.

Lead multiple agile squads, ensuring predictable delivery, quality, and technical excellence.

Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and architecture.

Drive adoption of engineering best practices (coding standards, code reviews, design patterns).

Architecture \& Design

Collaborate with Enterprise/Domain Architects to define target architecture and roadmap.

Design scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise patterns and standards.

Oversee key technical decisions (frameworks, integration patterns, APIs, data flows).

Ensure effective documentation of architecture, designs, and technical decisions.

Quality, Reliability \& DevSecOps

Embed automated testing, CI/CD, and observability into all solutions.

Ensure nonfunctional requirements (performance, scalability, resilience) are met.

Work closely with Security and Infrastructure to ensure compliance with cyber and risk standards.

Drive root cause analysis and permanent fixes for production incidents; reduce technical debt.

Stakeholder \& Product Collaboration

Partner with Product Owners, Business, and Operations to prioritise and plan releases.

Provide technical input into product roadmaps, solution options, and effort estimates.

Represent Engineering in governance, steering committees, and change forums.

People Leadership \& Capability Building

Manage, coach, and develop engineers (backend, frontend, full stack, QA, DevOps, etc.).

Build a high performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on learning and continuous improvement.

Identify skill gaps and define training/upskilling plans (cloud, microservices, security, etc.).

Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management for the engineering team.

Risk, Compliance \& Controls

Ensure all solutions comply with regulatory, security, and data governance policies.

Embed risk and control requirements into design, development, and change processes.

Support audits, risk assessments, and remediation activities related to technology.

Skills and Experience

• *Strong expertise in one or more of:**

• *Backend:** Java / .NET / Node.js / \[your tech]

• *Frontend:** React / Angular / Vue / \[your tech]

• *Integration:** REST APIs, microservices, messaging, event driven architectures

Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).

Hands on experience with CI/CD tools and practices (Git, Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI, automated testing).

Knowledge of secure coding, application security, and relevant regulatory/industry standards.

Behavioural Competencies

Strong leadership and ability to inspire and coach engineering teams.

Excellent communication skills, able to bridge business and technical stakeholders.

Structured, analytical problem solver with strong delivery focus.

High level of integrity with a strong commitment to risk management, compliance, and quality.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; master’s preferred.

Typically, 10\+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in a lead/manager role.

Proven track record delivering complex, business critical systems in a regulated environment (e.g., banking/financial services is an advantage).

Experience leading distributed or multi\-vendor engineering teams.

About Standard Chartered

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

What we offer

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.

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