Job Summary

The Head of Market Risk & Reporting Technology is accountable for setting the strategic direction, delivery outcomes and operational integrity of the Bank’s Market and Counterparty Credit Risk technology platforms supporting Markets, Traded Risk Management, Group Risk and Finance. Operating within the T&O 30 and Markets Target Operating Model, the role leads a globally distributed organisation delivering control-critical risk capabilities that must meet exacting standards of correctness, timeliness, explainability, auditability, resilience and regulatory confidence.

As a member of the Markets Technology Management Team, the role provides senior technology, engineering and organisational leadership for the downstream Market and Credit Risk & Reporting estate, balancing strategic change, platform health, service resilience, control effectiveness and cost discipline. The role shapes priorities and investment decisions across a broad stakeholder landscape, partnering closely with Traded Risk, Finance, Operations, Architecture, Infrastructure and the Markets business to ensure platforms remain strategically aligned, operationally robust and capable of supporting evolving business, control and regulatory demands.

Key scope and Capabilities include
•    Limits & Utilisation – platforms that support risk limit setting, monitoring, breach management, utilisation tracking and management reporting across Markets businesses.
•    Intraday Credit Risk – real-time and near real-time risk capabilities that provide timely visibility of counterparty exposures, utilisation and emerging concentration or stress events.
•    XVA Analytics – analytics platforms supporting valuation adjustments, risk sensitivities, methodology implementation and transparent consumption of XVA outputs for control, management and regulatory purposes.
•    EOD Credit Risk – end-of-day risk processing, exposure calculation and control reporting capabilities that provide a complete and auditable view of market and counterparty credit risk positions.
•    Credit Risk Batch – batch processing and orchestration services that underpin large-scale risk runs, data aggregation, reconciliations and downstream reporting with strong control, stability and processing integrity.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Set the end-to-end technology strategy for Market Risk & Reporting platforms, ensuring architecture, engineering, data and operational investments support resilient, scalable and well-controlled capabilities across limits, utilisation, intraday credit risk, XVA analytics, EOD credit risk and batch processing.
•    Translate enterprise, Group Risk & Finance objectives into a coherent technology roadmap for Market & Credit Risk & Reporting, ensuring platforms remain fit for evolving business demand, regulatory expectations and control requirements and drive a progressive strategy that optimises compliance, capital allocation and operational cost for compute.
•    Own the strategic change agenda across the estate, prioritising regulatory commitments, control remediation, modernisation, data quality uplift, resilience improvements and technical debt reduction within agreed investment capacity.
•    Drive platform simplification, common engineering standards and component reuse across Market Risk & Reporting capabilities to improve maintainability, reduce fragmentation and strengthen control consistency.
•    Maintain a forward-looking modernisation roadmap that reduces obsolescence, improves processing efficiency and ensures long-term supportability, recoverability and auditability of control-critical platforms.
•    Provide decisive leadership on material platform, delivery or control issues affecting Market Risk & Reporting services, making timely trade-offs and escalation decisions to protect business continuity, risk integrity and regulatory outcomes.
•    Drive a productivity, control and resilience agenda across the software development lifecycle, reducing manual intervention, improving processing integrity and delivering measurable improvements in service and control outcomes.
•    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, Traded Risk, Finance and Operations for Market Risk & Reporting capabilities, aligning priorities, service expectations, investment choices and delivery commitments to business, control and regulatory outcomes.
•    Promote a platform-led operating model across Market Risk & Reporting, building reusable and well-governed capabilities that support common risk and reporting needs while reducing fragmentation, operational dependency and duplication.
•    Lead investment planning, prioritisation and resource allocation for the estate, balancing strategic change, mandatory remediation, platform health and service performance against agreed business and control priorities.
•    Influence and challenge senior stakeholders across Business, Traded Risk, Finance, Operations and Regulatory Compliance to translate strategic, control and regulatory requirements into resilient and compliant platform outcomes.
•    Lead vendor and third-party relationships relevant to the platform 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 processing integrity, traceability, controlled releases, observability and operational resilience.
•    Ensure compliance with defined engineering, testing and release disciplines, using automation and tooling to support efficient, repeatable and well-controlled execution of risk and reporting deliveries.
•    Define and enforce engineering standards covering data quality, reconciliation, recoverability, service management and end-to-end controls across critical market risk and reporting processes.
•    Drive continuous improvement in platform stability, batch performance, exception management, incident learning and service recovery across the Market Risk & Reporting estate.
•    Operate within the established T&O Quality Control and Risk & Control frameworks, partnering proactively with control functions to sustain strong compliance and effective risk outcomes across the platform estate.

People & Talent
•    Provide visible leadership to a globally distributed organisation of c.400 staff, setting direction and building capability in risk platforms, data engineering, controls, resiliency and regulatory delivery.
•    Attract, retain and develop high-calibre engineering and platform talent required to deliver control-critical Market Risk & Reporting capabilities, while strengthening bench strength for the future.
•    Build and sustain high-performing teams that balance pace with accuracy, stability, security and control, recognising the critical importance of correctness and auditability in risk and reporting platforms.
•    Build a diverse and inclusive organisation, including within the direct leadership team, through inclusive hiring and promotion practices, objective talent decisions and an environment where different perspectives are heard and people can thrive.
•    Lead through example, setting the tone for a culture of accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence and constructive partnership with risk and control functions.
•    Ensure ongoing development of technical and domain capabilities across the organisation, including risk platforms, data controls, regulatory reporting, DevOps, cloud, resiliency and engineering excellence.
•    Establish clear succession pipelines and career paths for specialist and leadership roles within the Market Risk & Reporting Technology organisation.

Risk Management
•    Seek regular assurance that Market Risk & Reporting Technology is operating to an acceptable risk and control standard, taking prompt action to address weaknesses and ensuring timely remediation and escalation through the appropriate governance forums.
•    Act quickly and decisively when risk and control weaknesses become apparent, ensuring root-cause resolution, clear accountability and appropriate escalation through the relevant committees.
•    Act, where required, as a designated risk control owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level.
•    Ensure internal, legal and regulatory controls are embedded within platform design, delivery, operations and change management processes across the estate.
•    Balance business delivery, cost management and transformation objectives with risk and control requirements so that platform decisions remain within the Group’s risk appetite.

Governance
•    Participate in relevant architecture, design and governance forums to ensure the platform estate complies with enterprise standards, target architecture and the Group’s values and code of conduct.
•    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 execution risk across Market Risk & Reporting platforms in alignment with agreed priorities, control obligations and stakeholder commitments.
•    Be accountable for effective governance, including constructive challenge of peers and transparent engagement with internal oversight functions and, where relevant, local regulators.
•    Represent Market Risk & Reporting Technology in relevant governance, control, architecture, investment and prioritisation forums.

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
•    Markets Technology Management Team and senior Technology leadership
•    Traded Risk Management
•    Senior Markets business and product stakeholders
•    Quantitative Analytics (Quants)
•    Finance, capital, valuation and Regulatory Reporting partners
•    Operations, Risk & Control, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure and Production Services partners
•    Relevant platform owners, programme leads, internal audit, external partners, vendors and third-party providers

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and the Group’s brand, values and valued behaviors across the Market Risk & Reporting Technology organization.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures, consistent with the scale and accountability of the role.

Skills and Experience

15+ years of Extensive senior leadership experience in banking technology, preferably within Markets, with strong track record leading large-scale engineering organizations, risk or reporting platforms, strategic change, control-critical services and modern

•    Business Strategy and Model
•    IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
•    Software Development
•    Software Architecture
•    Data Governance
•    Emerging Technologies
•    Cloud Pipelines and Environments

Qualifications

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

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.

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