Job Description
Senior Manager, Data Protection-()
Job
:Trust, Data & Resilience
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Bangalore
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:14/Feb/2026, 1:12:35 AM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
RESPONSIBILITIES
• This role who will report directly to Executive Director, Head, Information Protection & Head, Data Security. The role will be accountable for formulation, operational planning and reporting of teams' strategies, validation against constraints, identification of opportunities for collaboration and leveraging existing initiatives.
• This is a Strategy & Planning lead role with the accountability to uplift the maturity of governance over teams' book of work within the function with unified goal setting, data driven decisions, reporting and resource planning and working with the leads to build the strategy for the domains.
Strategy & Operational Activities
• Provides oversight over initiatives prioritisation, risk buydown estimation and alignment to strategic goals and stakeholders' expectations
• Assists leaders in creating narratives for bottom-up initiatives to ensure benefits are communicated and considered in prioritisation with clear supporting message
• Develops capability and technology roadmaps, aligned across Information Protection & Data Security function and to the overarching Cyber Security strategy
• Serves as centralised information collection point about existing initiatives to leverage efforts and allow flexible adaptation to everchanging business and regulatory requirements
• Continuously identifies opportunities for delivery enhancement, inter- and intra- teams' collaboration, resource allocation optimisation
• Interprets complex information & generate recommendations to support strategic & corporate goals
• Creates platform for unified goal setting and reporting
• Ensure teams' internal and external communication is consistent, understandable to wider internal forum
• Builds team's brand within and outside Cyber Security.
Process
• Periodical reports that need to be published Interna & external.
• Contributes to management action plan definitions and collation where required.
• Gathers and analyses information for taking meaningful decisions.
People and Talent
• Facilitates collaboration between the teams within IP & DS.
• Continuously builds relationships with different stakeholders within and outside of IP &DS to strengthen the team's brand and eminence
• Monitor teams' structure and capacity plans and its alignment to strategic goals
• Individual contributor and team player
• Highly entrepreneurial with high level of energy, dedication and an unrelenting drive to deliver value with the focus on value form collaboration and learning loop.
• Strong sense of responsibility to deliver upon commitments with confidence in teamwork value.
• Is confident and will roll-up his/her sleeves to help others achieve.
• Able to get things done in a quick-paced environment with changing operational priorities. Be transparent and open around what works and what doesn't.
Risk Management
• Help team leads communicate identified risks and issues.
• Identify operational risks
• Lead through example and promote the appropriate conduct, culture and values.
Financial Management
• Plans, monitors, reports, and forecasts the finances of the Information Protection & Data Security service domain (run, change and continuous improvement).
Governance
• Jointly ensure that book of work progress continuously meets business needs, changing requirements and leads to defined goal achievement while following Bank's established processes as well as technical standards.
• Provide reporting to Heads on the achievement of committed benefits 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Head, Information Protection
• Head, Data Security
• Cyber Security – Service Heads, Service Managers
• Programme Directors, Project Managers – Information Protection & Data Security.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science/Information Technology or its equivalent. Additional formal education in Business Administration or Management welcome.
• Experience in Cyber & Information Security in Banking and Financial services preferably combined with experience in top tier consulting firm.
• Strong knowledge of business management, resource planning, process management and optimisation and performance measurement.
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation. Sound knowledge of MS-Excel, PPT, and Word.
• Proven track record of working as a facilitator between Technology and Business
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, across various levels in the organization including senior leadership teams, in influencing key decisions taken in the business and in support teams.
• Customer focus;
• Strong analytical skills and ability to gather competitive intel, prioritise, summarise, make decisions, and work to tight timeframes and changing environment.
• Ability to solve complex problems with high number of stakeholders and conflicting interests.
• Strong business acumen and deep knowledge and experience in the handling businesses.
• Ability to both assess strategic priorities and to focus on detailed aspects of a function in order to drive effective delivery. Strong integrity, independence and resilience.
ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Information Security Policy & Strategy
• Cyber Kill Chain
• MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Cyber Security Incident Response
• Security Logging & Monitoring
• Network Security – Firewalls, DDoS, WAF
• Malware Protection
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
Job
:Trust, Data & Resilience
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Bangalore
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:14/Feb/2026, 1:12:35 AM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
RESPONSIBILITIES
• This role who will report directly to Executive Director, Head, Information Protection & Head, Data Security. The role will be accountable for formulation, operational planning and reporting of teams' strategies, validation against constraints, identification of opportunities for collaboration and leveraging existing initiatives.
• This is a Strategy & Planning lead role with the accountability to uplift the maturity of governance over teams' book of work within the function with unified goal setting, data driven decisions, reporting and resource planning and working with the leads to build the strategy for the domains.
Strategy & Operational Activities
• Provides oversight over initiatives prioritisation, risk buydown estimation and alignment to strategic goals and stakeholders' expectations
• Assists leaders in creating narratives for bottom-up initiatives to ensure benefits are communicated and considered in prioritisation with clear supporting message
• Develops capability and technology roadmaps, aligned across Information Protection & Data Security function and to the overarching Cyber Security strategy
• Serves as centralised information collection point about existing initiatives to leverage efforts and allow flexible adaptation to everchanging business and regulatory requirements
• Continuously identifies opportunities for delivery enhancement, inter- and intra- teams' collaboration, resource allocation optimisation
• Interprets complex information & generate recommendations to support strategic & corporate goals
• Creates platform for unified goal setting and reporting
• Ensure teams' internal and external communication is consistent, understandable to wider internal forum
• Builds team's brand within and outside Cyber Security.
Process
• Periodical reports that need to be published Interna & external.
• Contributes to management action plan definitions and collation where required.
• Gathers and analyses information for taking meaningful decisions.
People and Talent
• Facilitates collaboration between the teams within IP & DS.
• Continuously builds relationships with different stakeholders within and outside of IP &DS to strengthen the team's brand and eminence
• Monitor teams' structure and capacity plans and its alignment to strategic goals
• Individual contributor and team player
• Highly entrepreneurial with high level of energy, dedication and an unrelenting drive to deliver value with the focus on value form collaboration and learning loop.
• Strong sense of responsibility to deliver upon commitments with confidence in teamwork value.
• Is confident and will roll-up his/her sleeves to help others achieve.
• Able to get things done in a quick-paced environment with changing operational priorities. Be transparent and open around what works and what doesn't.
Risk Management
• Help team leads communicate identified risks and issues.
• Identify operational risks
• Lead through example and promote the appropriate conduct, culture and values.
Financial Management
• Plans, monitors, reports, and forecasts the finances of the Information Protection & Data Security service domain (run, change and continuous improvement).
Governance
• Jointly ensure that book of work progress continuously meets business needs, changing requirements and leads to defined goal achievement while following Bank's established processes as well as technical standards.
• Provide reporting to Heads on the achievement of committed benefits 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Head, Information Protection
• Head, Data Security
• Cyber Security – Service Heads, Service Managers
• Programme Directors, Project Managers – Information Protection & Data Security.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science/Information Technology or its equivalent. Additional formal education in Business Administration or Management welcome.
• Experience in Cyber & Information Security in Banking and Financial services preferably combined with experience in top tier consulting firm.
• Strong knowledge of business management, resource planning, process management and optimisation and performance measurement.
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation. Sound knowledge of MS-Excel, PPT, and Word.
• Proven track record of working as a facilitator between Technology and Business
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, across various levels in the organization including senior leadership teams, in influencing key decisions taken in the business and in support teams.
• Customer focus;
• Strong analytical skills and ability to gather competitive intel, prioritise, summarise, make decisions, and work to tight timeframes and changing environment.
• Ability to solve complex problems with high number of stakeholders and conflicting interests.
• Strong business acumen and deep knowledge and experience in the handling businesses.
• Ability to both assess strategic priorities and to focus on detailed aspects of a function in order to drive effective delivery. Strong integrity, independence and resilience.
ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Information Security Policy & Strategy
• Cyber Kill Chain
• MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Cyber Security Incident Response
• Security Logging & Monitoring
• Network Security – Firewalls, DDoS, WAF
• Malware Protection
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Manager| Data Protection position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Bangalore offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
