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

•    Analyse and understand requirements from stakeholders. 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.
•    Be an active member of the scrum team, contributing to the solution build and delivery, reviewing test cases, closing out open issues/questions, assisting with sprint planning and retrospective
•    Assist the business with user acceptance tests, including communication, planning, preparation and test case preparation
•    Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders
•    Identify risks and impediments early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to workstream lead and business stakeholders in a timely manner
•    Be delivery focused, committed to specific tasks and ensure these and the deadlines are met.
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

•    Business Analysis and Solution Design
•    Financial Markets and Derivatives Product Knowledge
•    Problem Solving and analytical ability
•    Key technology concepts and SDLC
•    Hands on skills, like Excel/VBA, Python, SQL and data analysis
•    Communication and presentation skills

Qualifications

•    6-10 years’ experience with business analysis, solution design and end-to-end delivery in the Financial Markets industry
•    Strong knowledge of derivatives across asset classes encompassing product knowledge, pricing, risk analytics and trade life cycle
•    Extensive knowledge in the reference and market data (rate/fx/cds/commodities curves, vol surfaces, FM instruments, bonds/ABS, futures …etc)
•    Experiences in real-time market data (i.e. Bloomberg BPIPE and Refinitiv RTDS/TREP) is a big plus. 
•    Background in engineering is a big plus
•    Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
•    Quantitive finance understanding, ability to liaise with quants on pricing and risk topics
•    Proven ability to work across business streams and have exposure to front to back system implementation.
•    Good understanding of key technology concepts, basics in SQL, functional programming and architecture. Strong technical acumen is a big plus.
•    Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices
•    Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.
•    Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail.
•    Ability to drive multiple agenda and effectively manage priorities.
•    Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English are a must.
•    Multicultural awareness. 
•    Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics

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.