Job Summary

The role sits in the Standard Charted Financial Markets Risk Technology team focusing on the build out of the in-house strategic cross asset risk platform: SABRE. It consists in designing and delivering solutions to the users of this platform with a focus on Market, Static and Reference data management.

The market, static and reference data component of the SABRE platform (MDS) supports ~600+ million requests per day, with close to 3000 users worldwide and is a critical component of the FM Risk platform. It’s also an enabler for all major projects: Basel-IV, Trading Book Wind Down, FRTB, capital efficiency, key systems migrations and more. The core MDS team is made of ~30 people and delivers to all functions, FM Front Office, Middle Office, Traded Risk, Valuation Control, Product Control, Technology and Back Office. It covers all asset classes; FX, Rates, Credit, EQ and Commodities; and XVA.

The role focusses on enabling new business and regulatory initiatives, supporting ongoing enhancements for onboarded products, providing level 3 functional support on MDS, delivering production bug-fixes and supporting keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand users’ needs. Challenge status quo and the reflex of solutioning rather than focusing on the core requirement or perpetuating old processes and bad habits.
• Design and propose optimal and future proof solutions to meet these requirements.
• Define and articulate unambiguous implementation instructions for the development teams, success criteria for the test team and operational changes (when applicable) for end users.
• Assist the business with user acceptance tests, including communication, planning, preparation, and execution.
• Be an active member of the scrum team, contributing to the solution build and delivery, reviewing, and facilitating test automation, closing out open issues/questions, assisting with sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Be delivery focused, committed to specific tasks, and ensure these and the deadlines are met.
• Ensure solutions proposed and delivered do not compromise production stability.
• Adherence to the SABRE Agile Manifesto in all deliveries.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the FM ecosystem, key business processes front-to-back and trading systems.
• Strong knowledge of at least one asset class encompassing product, trade life cycle, pricing and risk. 
• Agile/Hybrid delivery experience and mindset is highly preferred.
• Good working knowledge of SQL to query large and complex datasets.
• Understanding of reference and market data and its role in derivative / security pricing and risk. Exposure to market data vendor systems such as Bloomberg and Refinitiv is a plus.
• Self-starter, strong communicator, and collaborator

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.