Job Summary

The Talent Technology Lead will play a critical role in ensuring that we leverage technology to put people with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time in service of the Bank’s strategy. The role will be responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing oversight of our end-to-end talent technology ecosystem, responsible for how we leverage our chosen best of breed talent technology strategy to scale and sustain a skills first approach across all areas of the organisation. They will be expected to have a good understanding of our core talent technology suite – in particular SAP and Gloat - and in partnership with the overall Careers & Capabilities team define a strategy on how these can work together to deliver tech enabled, skills first experiences at critical moments across the Colleague and People Leader lifecycle. They will be responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with key vendor contacts, ensuring that they maximise these relationships to understand how product functionality can be best used in service of our strategy, and that product enhancements and any impact on our technology suite are understood and planned for in advance.   

Key Responsibilities

• Strong awareness and understanding of the overall Bank and individual Business strategies across the organisation, and therefore how technology can both be leveraged to put the skills we have today where they will have the greatest impact, and to help understand future skill demands based on the areas in which we operate.
• Strong awareness and understanding of the markets and sectors in which the Bank operates to be able to project what the current and future of these markets and sectors looks like and how this will impact skill requirements across the Business. 
• Understanding of how skills first experiences can be embedded and enabled by technology at critical moments of both the Colleague and People Leader lifecycle.
• Lead themselves and team members in line with our Bankwide values of ‘Better Together’, ‘Never Settle’ and ‘Do the Right Thing’. Constant adherence to the Bank’s culture of high performance that drives innovation through continuous career focused conversations.
• The ability to identify any risks in relation to technology process and governance and based on this information provide suggestions of how appropriate controls, measures and mitigations could be put in place to minimise impacts of any risks.
• Understanding of the Bank’s core technology governance processes and standards, and responsible for ensuring technology solutions meet the requirements and expectations of such standards and processes.

Skills and Experience

• HR Technology    
• Human Resource Consulting
• Human Collaboration & AI    
• HR Policies, Processes and Standards    
• Talent Management  
• Data Management    

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.