Associate Director, Cloud Enablement(Philippines, Singapore)

Job ID: 39860

Location: Makati City, PH

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 18 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Philippines and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

This role is going to lead the proactive enablement of our AI platform capabilities. This role defines and drives the implementation of backend and cloud infrastructure features (on Azure and AWS, Databricks) needed to support secure, scalable AI workload deployment, including PII data onboarding and service-oriented platform features.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business

• Define and maintain the AI platform cloud capability roadmap
• Design service-oriented platform features to support AI and GenAI adoption at scale
• Liaise with platform teams to ensure backend infrastructure is ready for secure PII onboarding
• Identify and close capability gaps for AI workloads on Azure and AWS Databricks
• Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and templates for compliant deployment
• Work cross-functionally to align platform evolution with business and governance requirements
• Oversee rollout of new platform features into production environments
• Monitor adoption and effectiveness of new platform capabilities across AI use cases
• Coordinate updates or optimizations to platform features based on operational feedback

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 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

AI Solutions, Technology and Architecture, AI and Data Operations, ICS, Business Units, 3rd Parties

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

• Set the vision for AI platform evolution, ensuring cloud capabilities support AI use cases securely and at scale.
• Drive 'idea to impact' at the platform layer, turning strategic platform requirements into working capabilities deployed across Azure and AWS Databricks.
• Lead innovation in platform design, ensuring service-oriented features are developed to support new business opportunities.
• Be an ambassador of responsible AI, embedding governance, resilience, and ethical AI principles in platform enablement.
• Foster collaboration with technology, data, and business stakeholders, ensuring cross-functional ownership of platform outcomes.
• Build once, scale many -enable reusable patterns, frameworks, and infrastructure that accelerate group-wide adoption.
• Take on broader Data & AI responsibilities when needed, such as contributing to group-wide strategy papers, regulatory dialogues, or innovation showcases.
• Live SCB's values by ensuring platform capabilities reflect the highest standards of client trust, sustainability, and innovation.

Qualifications

• Strategic Visioning: Ability to set a platform capability roadmap aligned to long-term AI adoption.
• Cloud & Data Expertise: Deep knowledge of Azure and AWS, particularly Databricks, MLOps/DevOps, and data engineering.
• Platform Enablement: Skilled at designing service-oriented platform features and reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to drive cross-team initiatives and align diverse stakeholders.
• Innovation Orientation: Brings forward new ideas to make the platform more scalable, secure, and business-ready.
• Governance & Risk Awareness: Strong understanding of compliance, security, and regulatory frameworks in financial services.
• Execution & Delivery: Able to oversee operationalization, adoption, and optimization of new features.
• Values Alignment: Acts as an ambassador of responsible AI, ensuring the platform reflects SCB's commitment to ethics, sustainability, and trust.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data Science
• Gen AI
• Cloud (AWS/ Azure)
• AI, ML
• Data Engineering
• Solution Planning
• Databricks

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.