Job Summary

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

Whilst the SABRE platform has continuously been improved over the years to scale to an ever-increasing user base and a growing number of capabilities, amount of data and computation, its static and market data components have grown organically without going through any drastic transformation. The refreshed FM static and market strategy also provides a unique opportunity to realign the SABRE Static and Market Data Service (MDS) software architecture, interfaces and operational processes to that strategy.

The role consists in joining the team driving the new project to build the strategic market and reference data platform FALCON with unified data interfaces and centralised data store to support the Financial Market intraday and EOD pricing and risk management.

FALCON is Financial Markets’ strategic market and reference data platform, built to unify how the bank sources, stores, manages, and distributes market data across all asset classes. Instead of today’s fragmented landscape — multiple systems, duplicate data flows, inconsistent repositories, and manual curve setups — FALCON provides a single, end‑to‑end data foundation for real‑time intraday prices, historical time series, official EOD snaps, and reference data. It offers a unified API, a cross‑asset data model, and a modern UI for searching, viewing, publishing, marking, and restatement. By centralising market data into one cohesive platform, FALCON improves data quality, ensures consistency for pricing, PnL, and risk, reduces operational complexity, and streamlines onboarding of new market observables. Ultimately, FALCON delivers fast, accurate, and controlled data to all downstream systems—Front Office, Risk, Finance, and Operations—while enabling future automation and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive end‑to‑end technical delivery across core market data infrastructure platforms, including storage and associated data and analytics stacks, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and fit for long‑term strategic use.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to deeply understand business objectives and requirements, challenging legacy approaches and solution bias to ensure the right problems are being solved.
• Lead solution intent reviews and technical design discussions, ensuring proposed architectures and implementations are aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and strategic technology direction.
• Define clear, unambiguous delivery plans and implementation guidance for engineering teams, including scope, success criteria, non‑functional requirements, and operational readiness expectations.
• Provide strong technical oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle, including design validation, development progress, testing approach, release readiness, and post‑deployment stabilisation.
• Act as a senior delivery partner to Agile teams, supporting sprint planning, dependency management, issue resolution, and delivery governance, while maintaining focus on outcomes rather than outputs.
• Ensure effective coordination across front‑to‑back technology and business streams, managing cross‑team dependencies and aligning multiple workstreams to a coherent delivery roadmap.
• Support and oversee user acceptance testing activities, ensuring business users are well prepared, test coverage is fit for purpose, and outcomes meet agreed success criteria.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, technical debt, and execution impediments, defining mitigation strategies and escalating appropriately with clear, timely communication to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders, acting as a trusted delivery lead who can balance technical depth with pragmatic execution.
• Maintain a strong delivery focus, driving accountability across teams, tracking commitments, and ensuring milestones and deadlines are consistently met.

Key Responsibilities

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

Traders, quantitative analysts, middle office, operations, market risk, finance, developers, testers, project managers, support groups

Skills and Experience

• Technical Analysis and Solution Design
• Financial Markets and Derivatives Product Knowledge
• Problem Solving and analytical ability
• Key technology concepts and SDLC
• Hands on skills in coding and software development
• Communication and presentation skills

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience delivering complex, end‑to‑end solutions within the Financial Markets domain, spanning business analysis, solution design, and full delivery lifecycle execution.
• Deep understanding of derivatives across multiple asset classes, including product structures, pricing methodologies, risk analytics, and trade lifecycle processes.
• Strong domain expertise in reference and market data, including rates, FX, CDS, commodities curves, volatility surfaces, financial instruments, bonds/ABS, and futures.
• Hands‑on experience with real‑time market data platforms such as Bloomberg BPIPE and Refinitiv RTDS/TREP is highly desirable.
• Solid engineering or computer science background is a strong advantage, enabling effective engagement with architecture and development teams.
• Proven quantitative finance knowledge with the ability to work closely with quants on pricing models, analytics, and risk‑related topics.
• Demonstrated capability to operate across front‑to‑back business and technology streams, with experience delivering large‑scale system implementations.
• Strong technical acumen, with a good grasp of core technology concepts including system architecture, data platforms, SQL, and functional programming paradigms.

Qualifications

• Practical experience working in Agile delivery environments, with a clear understanding of modern software development practices.
• Exceptional problem‑solving and analytical skills, with a pragmatic and outcomes‑focused mindset.
• Self‑driven and proactive, able to work independently while taking ownership of complex delivery agendas.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities concurrently, balancing strategic objectives with operational execution.
• Strong communicator with excellent written and verbal English, capable of engaging senior stakeholders and presenting complex topics with clarity.
• Collaborative team player with strong attention to detail and the ability to work effectively in multicultural, global environments.
• Demonstrates personal authority, integrity, and high ethical standards in all interactions.

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.