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Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Manager - GIAI Technology to lead the capabilities of the Senior Product Owner and Delivery Manager including product management, business analysis and release planning across strategic GIAI technology platforms. The role will act as the bridge between business users, audit stakeholders and technology delivery teams, ensuring business needs are translated into high-quality, developer-ready requirements and delivered through a structured Agile framework.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can move seamlessly between strategy, detailed requirements, delivery governance and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will be expected to drive outcomes, challenge constructively, improve ways of working and contribute beyond their immediate remit to support the wider GIAI technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Partner with business stakeholders, users and technology teams to define product vision, roadmap and priorities.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable product plans and delivery outcomes.
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, persona reviews and user journey analysis.
• Establish clear prioritisation frameworks for competing business demands.

Business
• Own and maintain the product backlog.
• Write and review epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable and traceable from business objective through to delivered capability.




• Define and maintain Definition of Ready and Definition of Done standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in requirements quality and delivery predictability.

Processes
• Lead Program Increment planning and release train activities.
• Manage dependencies across teams and platforms.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement and release readiness activities.
• Monitor delivery progress, risks and impediments and drive timely resolution.
• Ensure delivery aligns with agreed business outcomes and strategic goals.
• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and technology teams.
• Present progress, risks and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Facilitate decision-making across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Build robust relationships across Audit, Technology, Risk and Control functions.
• Quality & Continuous Improvement
• Champion user-centric design and data-driven decision making.
• Drive improvements in governance, requirements management and delivery practices.
• Promote use of AI-enabled product management and analysis techniques where appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve user experience.

People & Talent




• Provide cross-functional leadership to internal teams and be responsible for team members development and performance.
• Ability to coach and mentor wider business analysis and product team - playing a key role in elevating the overall capabilities around the Business domain and product knowledge.

Risk Management
• Manage the Bank's, and, Group Internal Audit and Investigations projects and change initiatives in line with enterprise risk management standards, deploying effective controls and sustainable risk management processes.

Governance
• Lead Program Increment planning and release train activities.
• Manage dependencies across teams and platforms.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement and release readiness activities.
• Monitor delivery progress, risks and impediments and drive timely resolution.
• Ensure delivery aligns with agreed business outcomes and strategic goals.

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.
• Lead Group Internal Audit and Investigations to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
• Group Internal Audit and Investigations
• Group Technology

Skills and E

📌 Senior Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Bengaluru