Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Product Specialist (FX Derivative) to join our Wealth Digital Products and Proposition Domain. This critical role involves bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, value-driven software.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of capital market / Wealth product knowledge and FX Derivative processes, combined with advanced technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

•    Manage, maintain, and configure FX Derivatives platform to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement new features and enhancements for FX Derivatives platform.
•    Ensure platform capabilities align with business requirements and regulatory standards.
•    Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to the system in a timely manner.
•    Perform regular system upgrades, patches, and maintenance to ensure security and efficiency.
•    Conduct thorough testing and validation of new features to ensure high-quality deliverables.
•    Ensure compliance with the bank’s cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory, and legal standards.
•    Collaborate with interfacing systems to ensure seamless integration and data flow.

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
•    Subdomain Tech Lead
•    Engineering Lead
•    Release Managers
•    Product Owners

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in IT-Projects-TC-WRB; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; 

Skills and Experience

•    Knowledge of SQL and Excel, PowerPoint, ADO, Confluence.
•    Outstanding problem-solving skills, systematic approach with attention to detail, demonstrating a strong analytical mindset
•    Excellent written and verbal communications with the ability to tailor the message to the intended audience.
•    Strong interpersonal skills, able to engage and influence stakeholders across multiple levels within the organisation
•    Familiarity with RESTful APIs
•    Scrum: Knowledge of the principles, components and features of scrum methodology; ability to apply this methodology to manage software product development processes.
•    Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of, and experience with, managing product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.

Qualifications

Education     
•    Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
Training     
•    Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including:
•    Proven experience working on FX Derivatives in the financial services domain.
•    Knowledge in MarginMan would be an added advantage.
•    Hands-on experience in an agile delivery environment, with a solid grasp of scrum methodologies.

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.