Job Summary

•    Lead the global Trading Control & Supervision Technology organisation, owning technology capabilities that enable trade review, control assessment, exception management, supervisory oversight and operational risk management across Financial Markets.
•    Own the strategy, architecture and delivery roadmap for resilient, scalable and configurable control platforms, ensuring effective identification, assessment, management and supervision of trade processing risks and control exceptions across asset classes.
•    Drive the evolution of strategic Trading Control & Supervision capabilities, enabling greater automation, proactive risk detection, management transparency and control effectiveness across the trade lifecycle.
•    Lead platform modernisation, AI-enabled risk analytics, workflow automation, observability and data-driven supervision capabilities to reduce operational risk, improve control outcomes and strengthen regulatory readiness.
•    Provide senior engineering leadership across a global organisation, ensuring architecture, security, data, risk and operational design decisions translate into reliable, auditable and well-governed control outcomes.
•    Act as the senior technology partner for Markets COO, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Regulatory Programmes and Markets Technology leadership on control transformation, supervisory capabilities and control effectiveness strategy.

Key Responsibilities

The role holder leads others and is accountable for strategy, delivery outcomes, technology risk management, stakeholder alignment, investment prioritisation and organisational capability across the global Trading Control & Supervision Technology organisation.

Strategy and Transformation
•    Define and execute the multi-year Trading Control & Supervision technology strategy, aligned to Markets control objectives, operational resilience priorities, regulatory expectations and enterprise architecture standards.

End-to-End Capability Ownership
•    Own control assessment, trade review, exception management and supervisory technology capabilities end-to-end, with accountability for control effectiveness, workflow efficiency, data quality, traceability and auditability.

Platform Ownership and Business Outcomes
•    Lead resilient, standardised and scalable control platforms and services that improve operational transparency, risk identification, exception resolution effectiveness, supervisory oversight and management decision making.

Architecture and Platform Modernisation
•    Drive simplification and convergence of fragmented control tooling toward strategic enterprise control capabilities, reducing duplication, technical debt and operational complexity while improving agility and scalability.

Controls, Risk and Regulatory Readiness
•    Lead technology capabilities supporting trade review, control execution, exception detection, case management, workflow orchestration, escalation management and remediation tracking, ensuring consistent governance and accountability across Markets.

Risk Analytics, AI and Supervisory Intelligence
•    Drive adoption of AI-enabled supervision, intelligent exception analysis, predictive risk monitoring, control analytics and management insight capabilities to improve control effectiveness, accelerate root-cause identification and support proactive risk management.

Portfolio Governance and Investment Management
•    Strengthen control governance, data lineage, auditability, entitlement controls, evidencing capabilities and regulatory reporting support, ensuring platforms operate within the Bank's risk appetite and supervisory expectations.

Enterprise Leadership and Stakeholder Management
•    Influence senior stakeholders across Markets, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Architecture and Technology leadership to align strategic priorities, regulatory requirements and control transformation initiatives.

People and Talent
•    Lead a global engineering and product organisation with accountability for talent development, succession planning and organisational effectiveness, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills    
    •    Software Product Business Knowledge
    •    Technology Strategy, Innovation and AI Enablement
    •    Technology Platform and Engineering Leadership
Other Skills    
    •    People Leadership and Team Culture
    •    Strategic Stakeholder and Portfolio Management
    •    Operational Resilience and Service Management

Motivations

•    The ideal candidate is motivated by strengthening the safety, integrity and effectiveness of Financial Markets operations through technology-driven controls and supervision. They are energised by building strategic platforms that improve transparency, risk management and regulatory readiness at enterprise scale.
•    They thrive on solving complex control and operational risk challenges, influencing enterprise-wide governance outcomes, and delivering measurable improvements through data, automation, AI and modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

Key Experiences
•    Extensive experience in Markets Technology with strong knowledge of trade control processing.
•    Proven leadership of large-scale engineering teams and mission-critical technology platforms.
•    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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.