Job Summary

•    The Head of FX Trade Processing Technology is accountable for the end-to-end technology strategy, investment planning, platform governance and delivery of the FX Trade Processing capability across Financial Markets. The role provides senior leadership for engineering, resilience, controls, AI innovation and organisational effectiveness across a globally distributed technology organisation, ensuring platforms support business growth, operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
•    The role leads a critical portfolio of FX trade processing platforms covering booking, validation, enrichment, workflow orchestration, lifecycle event processing, ensuring timely, accurate and resilient processing across the FX trade lifecycle.
•    The role provides senior technology and engineering leadership across a globally distributed organisation, partnering closely with Markets business, Operations, Product, Risk and Infrastructure teams to ensure technology platforms support business growth, operational efficiency, platform resilience and regulatory compliance.
•    As a member of the Trade Capture & Lifecycle Technology leadership team, the role balances strategic transformation with platform stability, driving modernisation, simplification, engineering excellence across the FX technology estate.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Own the end-to-end FX Trade Processing technology capability and target architecture, ensuring consistent platform strategy, engineering standards and delivery execution across all constituent applications and services.
•    Define and own the technology strategy and roadmap for FX Trade Processing Technology, aligning investment decisions with business priorities, regulatory requirements and platform health objectives.
•    Lead the evolution of FX trade processing capabilities, including trade capture, validation, enrichment, workflow orchestration, state management and lifecycle event processing.
•    Drive platform simplification and convergence, reducing duplicate capabilities, technical complexity and operational risk across the FX estate.
•    Establish target architectures and modernisation roadmaps that improve scalability, resiliency, maintainability and cost efficiency.
•    Ensure platforms support future business growth, product expansion and increased automation.
•    Make architectural decisions and contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning

Technology & Engineering
Trade Capture & Lifecycle Event Management
•    Lead platforms supporting FX trade booking, validation, enrichment and trade state management.
•    Ensure accurate, scalable and resilient processing of FX transactions across the trade lifecycle.
•    Drive reduction of manual intervention, operational exceptions and processing breaks through automation and platform improvements.
•    Ensure lifecycle events are accurately generated, orchestrated and propagated across downstream platforms.
•    Maintain trade state integrity, risk consistency and data quality throughout the lifecycle process.
•    Improve event processing efficiency, transparency and traceability.

AI & Innovation
•    Lead the adoption of AI-enabled software engineering, platform operations and production support practices across FX Trade Processing Technology, delivering measurable improvements in engineering productivity, software quality, resiliency and operational efficiency.
•    Act as the senior technology lead for AI innovation within the FX processing domain, identifying opportunities to apply AI to trade processing workflows, exception management, controls, observability and operational decision-making. Drive automation opportunities across development, testing, support and operational workflows.
•    Ensure responsible adoption of AI technologies through appropriate governance, security, model risk controls, observability and regulatory compliance standards.
•    Support broader Markets Technology AI initiatives and contribute to enterprise engineering standards and best practices.

Business Leadership
•    Act as the primary technology partner for FX business, Operations and Product stakeholders. 
•    Translate business strategy into technology outcomes and prioritised delivery roadmaps. 
•    Influence investment decisions by balancing business value, platform health, regulatory commitments and risk reduction. 
•    Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Markets, Operations, Risk, Finance and Architecture teams.

Delivery & Execution
•    Lead delivery of strategic programmes, regulatory change, control remediation and platform modernisation initiatives.
•    Ensure engineering teams execute with strong Agile, DevOps and software engineering disciplines.
•    Establish measurable outcomes around platform availability, processing efficiency, defect reduction and delivery performance.
•    Drive adoption of standard engineering practices, automation and reusable platform services.

Executive Governance Authority
•    Act as the accountable executive for material platform investment, architecture, resilience and control decisions within the FX Trade Processing estate, balancing business growth, risk appetite, regulatory obligations and engineering sustainability.
•    Provide executive representation for FX Trade Processing Technology at investment, governance, architecture, audit and regulatory forums.

Financial Accountability
•    Accountable for technology investment, workforce planning, vendor spend and overall cost efficiency across the FX Trade Processing estate, ensuring resources are aligned to strategic priorities and regulatory obligations.
•    Drive productivity and cost optimisation through platform simplification, automation, cloud adoption and AI-enabled engineering practices.

Risk & Controls
•    Maintain strong oversight of operational, technology and regulatory risks across the FX estate.
•    Ensure timely identification, escalation and remediation of control weaknesses and service risks.
•    Embed risk management considerations into platform design, delivery and operational processes.
•    Partner with audit, compliance and control functions to maintain an effective control environment.
    
People and Talent 
•    Lead and develop a globally distributed organisation of engineering, platform and delivery professionals. 
•    Build high-performing teams with strong technical expertise, domain knowledge and engineering discipline. 
•    Develop future leaders and establish robust succession plans across critical technology functions. 
•    Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. 
•    Champion engineering excellence, DevOps adoption, AI-enabled delivery and platform ownership.
 

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills    
    •    Software Product Business Knowledge
    •    Software Development
    •    Leadership
    •    Stakeholder Management
    •    Develop Talent
    •    Drives Vision and Purpose
Other Skills    
    •    AI

Motivations

The ideal candidate is motivated by the opportunity to shape the future of FX Trade Processing Technology and deliver strategic outcomes at enterprise scale. They are energised by owning business-critical platforms, influencing technology direction, and leading large-scale transformation that improves business performance, operational resilience and control effectiveness.
They are driven by:
•    Building market-leading technology capabilities that directly enable business growth, client outcomes and competitive advantage.
•    Leading complex transformation journeys that simplify technology landscapes, modernise platforms and create sustainable long-term value.
•    Solving large-scale operational, processing and control challenges where technology can materially improve efficiency, risk management and resilience.
•    Influencing senior business and technology stakeholders to align strategic priorities, investments and execution outcomes.
•    Creating high-performing engineering organisations with a strong culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
•    Developing future leaders and building enduring organisational capability that extends beyond individual platforms or programmes.
•    Delivering measurable outcomes through platform industrialisation, automation, AI adoption and operational simplification.
•    Operating at the intersection of business strategy, technology innovation and execution excellence, turning ambitious objectives into tangible results.

Qualifications

Key Experiences
•    Extensive experience in Markets Technology with strong knowledge of FX trading and post-trade processing.
•    Proven leadership of large-scale engineering teams and mission-critical technology platforms.
•    Strong understanding of trade processing, lifecycle management and regulatory expectations.
•    Experience leading technology transformation, platform modernisation.
•    Demonstrated success delivering strategic change while maintaining operational stability.
•    Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
Certifications / Qualifications
•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Languages
•    English

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

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