Job Summary

The Global Head of Market FO (Front Office) Risk and Trader Tools is accountable for the strategic direction, engineering leadership, delivery and operational integrity of a globally significant platform estate supporting front-office risk management, trader tooling, risk analytics and control-critical workflows across Financial Markets. Operating within the T&O 30 and Markets Target Operating Model, the role leads a large global organisation and owns technology capabilities that are fundamental to trading control, decision support, risk transparency, resilience and regulatory confidence. This is a Managing Director opportunity based in the UK.

As a member of the Markets Technology Management Team, the role provides enterprise-scale technology, engineering and people leadership across front-office risk and trader tool capabilities, setting strategy, shaping investment, governing execution and ensuring strong control outcomes across a complex global estate. The role partners closely with Markets business leadership, Traded Risk, Finance, Operations, Architecture, Infrastructure and control functions to translate business priorities and regulatory expectations into scalable, resilient and well-governed platform outcomes.

Key scope and capabilities include:
•    Intraday risk – technology platforms and workflows that provide timely visibility of front-office risk exposures, limit usage, sensitivities and risk movements during the trading day, enabling informed decision-making, effective control and rapid escalation of material changes.
•    Lifecycle events – platforms supporting the generation and reporting of trade lifecycle events, including payments, barrier and early termination events.
•    Market Risk Batch – batch processing services that generate risk measures, sensitivities, scenario outputs and reporting datasets used for risk oversight, control, analytics and downstream consumption, with strong emphasis on timeliness, completeness, performance and control integrity.
•    Deal Stores – core trade and position data stores that underpin front-office risk, trader tooling and downstream processes, ensuring accurate, controlled and accessible representation of trade populations, lifecycle state, positions and associated reference attributes across products and businesses.

Key Responsibilities

•    Quant Interface (Cortex) – technology interfaces and services connecting front-office platforms with quantitative libraries, models and analytics, enabling controlled integration of pricing, risk and scenario capabilities into trader and risk workflows while supporting performance, transparency and model-consumption governance.
•    Market & Product Data – services and controls supporting the sourcing, distribution, quality and governance of market, static and product-related data required for front-office risk calculation, trader decision support, analytics and control processes across the platform estate.
•    Business growth and innovation – key to this role is developing a risk technology stack that supports rapid product innovation, working with Quants and front-to-back teams to support seamless integration of new payoffs, coupled with dynamic scaling enabled through optimal infra utilsation.

Strategy
•    Set the end-to-end technology strategy for Market FO Risk and Trader Tools, ensuring architecture, engineering, data and platform investments deliver resilient, scalable and well-controlled capabilities across front-office risk workflows, decision support and trader tooling.
•    Shape the strategic direction of the platform estate in line with Markets, Technology and Group priorities, ensuring the organisation remains positioned to meet evolving business demand, regulatory expectations, control obligations and growth ambitions.
•    Lead the strategic change agenda across the estate, prioritising delivery across business growth, control enhancement, regulatory commitments, platform modernisation, resilience uplift and productivity improvement.
•    Drive platform simplification, common engineering standards and component reuse to reduce duplication, improve maintainability, increase delivery leverage and strengthen consistency of controls across the estate.
•    Own and maintain a multi-year modernisation roadmap that reduces obsolescence, strengthens resilience, improves engineering efficiency and ensures long-term supportability of control-critical services.
•    Provide visible executive leadership on material platform issues, control weaknesses or delivery risks, ensuring timely escalation, cross-functional alignment and sustainable remediation.
•    Drive a productivity, control and resilience agenda across the software development lifecycle, reducing manual dependency, improving automation and increasing the quality, speed and predictability of delivery.

AI & Innovation
o    Provide senior leadership for AI engineering across Markets Technology, acting as an SME for AI development and AI engineering, and ensuring consistent adoption of approved patterns, standards, guardrails, observability, and secure‑by‑design delivery practices.
o    Support cross-markets/group innovation in automation of EOL and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) remediation through tooling development and best practices.
o    Deliver tangible AI‑enabled productivity gains and/or enhanced product capabilities, translating innovation into measurable engineering, operational or client outcomes.
o    Support  business teams in understanding and articulate the ‘art of the possible’ for AI, supporting the design and delivery of coherent, scalable solutions that enable innovation, client personalisation and operational efficiency, while contributing to Group‑wide core platform strategies.

Business
•    Act as the senior technology partner to Markets and key functional stakeholders for Market FO Risk and Trader Tools, aligning priorities, service expectations, investment choices and delivery commitments to business, control and regulatory outcomes.
•    Promote a product- and platform-led operating model, building reusable, well-governed capabilities that improve time to market, reduce fragmentation and support sustainable scale.
•    Lead investment planning and prioritisation across the organisation, balancing strategic change, mandatory remediation, platform health, workforce capacity and service performance against agreed outcomes.
•    Partner closely with Business, Traded Risk, Finance, Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Architecture and Infrastructure teams to translate complex business, control and regulatory requirements into scalable and compliant platform outcomes.
•    Lead material vendor and third-party relationships relevant to the estate to secure appropriate commercial, service, resilience and control outcomes across the full lifecycle.

Processes
•    Embed disciplined engineering, Agile and DevOps practices across the organisation, with particular focus on control by design, release discipline, traceability, observability and operational resilience.
•    Ensure compliance with defined engineering, testing and release processes, using automation and tooling to improve repeatability, quality and control effectiveness across deliveries.
•    Define and enforce engineering standards covering data quality, security, recoverability, resilience and end-to-end controls across critical front-office risk and trader workflows.
•    Drive continuous improvement in platform stability, engineering productivity, incident learning, service recovery and operational readiness across the estate.
•    Operate within established Technology and Group risk and control frameworks, partnering proactively with control functions to sustain strong compliance, robust governance and effective risk outcomes.

People & Talent
•    Provide visible enterprise-scale technology and domain leadership across a large global engineering organisation, building deep capability in front-office risk platforms, trader tooling, architecture, controls, resiliency and delivery execution.
•    Attract, retain and develop high-calibre leadership, engineering and platform talent required to deliver a control-critical global technology estate, while promoting diversity across background, experience, gender and thought.
•    Build and sustain high-performing teams that combine pace, technical excellence and innovation with the discipline, accuracy and control required for front-office risk and decision-support platforms.
•    Build a diverse and inclusive organisation, including within the leadership team, through inclusive hiring and promotion practices, objective talent decisions and an environment where different perspectives are valued and people can thrive.
•    Lead through example, setting a clear tone on performance, accountability, conduct, collaboration and controls, and working in close partnership with risk and control stakeholders.
•    Ensure ongoing development of technical, leadership and domain skills required across the organisation, including platform engineering, architecture, data controls, DevOps, resilience, risk domain knowledge and engineering excellence.
•    Establish clear career pathways, succession plans and leadership pipelines for critical specialist and management roles across the organisation.

Risk Management
•    Maintain regular assurance that the organisation operates to an acceptable risk and control standard, taking prompt and decisive action to address weaknesses and ensuring timely remediation and escalation through the appropriate governance forums.
•    Act quickly and decisively when any risk or control weakness becomes apparent, ensuring issues are contained, addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through relevant committees where required.
•    Act, where required, as a risk control owner or accountable technology owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level.
•    Ensure necessary internal, legal and regulatory controls are embedded within platform strategy, design, delivery, change and operational management processes.
•    Balance business performance, investment and cost management decisions with risk and control considerations to ensure outcomes remain within the Group’s risk appetite.

Governance
•    Participate in, and where appropriate influence, relevant architecture, design, investment and governance forums to ensure the estate remains aligned to enterprise standards, target architecture and strategic priorities.
•    Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering regulations and guidelines.
•    Manage delivery scope, milestones, dependencies and trade-offs across the platform estate in alignment with agreed priorities, control obligations and stakeholder commitments.
•    Demonstrate effective governance, including the ability to challenge constructively, make balanced decisions and engage with regulators and control stakeholders in an open and cooperative manner where required.
•    Represent Market FO Risk and Trader Tools Technology in relevant governance, control, investment and prioritisation forums.

Qualifications

Education     
•    Engineering, Computer Science, Quantitative Discipline or equivalent practical experience

Experience 
•    Extensive senior leadership experience in banking technology, preferably within financial markets, with a strong track record leading large global engineering organisations, shaping technology strategy, delivering complex platform transformation and managing control-critical services. deep knowledge of modern engineering practices, platform architecture, data and cloud-enabled delivery models is expected.

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.