Job Summary

Role purpose
Serve as the functional and product-domain specialist for the FX Platform. The role connects Product Owners, business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, operations, vendors and control teams to deliver secure, resilient, scalable and customer-focused FX solutions.

•  We are seeking an experienced Senior Associate, Product Specialist for the FX Platform within the Wealth Digital Products and Proposition (WDPP) domain in WRB Technology.
•  The role holder will serve as a functional and product-domain specialist for the FX Platform, partnering with Product Owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams, architects, operations, vendors, and control functions to deliver secure, resilient, scalable, and customer-centric solutions across the FX trade lifecycle.
• The successful candidate will combine practical FX product and platform knowledge with technology delivery experience to translate business needs into effective digital solutions, support end-to-end product delivery, and improve platform stability, controls, operational efficiency, and user experience.
• This role is well suited for candidates with experience in FX, Capital Markets, Wealth Management, order management, pricing, execution, or trading platforms, together with strong functional analysis and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support the FX Platform product and technology roadmap by identifying opportunities to improve client and user experience, operational efficiency, platform resilience, integration, and scalability.
•    Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into technology initiatives and delivery outcomes.
•    Contribute to platform modernization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Business
•    Act as a functional and product-domain specialist for the FX Platform and its key business workflows.
•    Translate business, client, operational, regulatory, data, and integration needs into clear functional and non-functional requirements and solution outcomes.
•    Assess change requests and support prioritisation based on business value, customer needs, risk, dependencies, and delivery readiness.
•    Support rollout and adoption of new FX capabilities across markets, business stakeholders, operations, and users.

Processes
•    Partner with the Product Owner to support discovery, requirements analysis, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, testing, release readiness, and post-implementation validation across the delivery lifecycle.
•    Work closely with engineering, architecture, data, integration, and vendor teams to ensure solutions meet business, operational, security, resilience, and support requirements.
•    Maintain accurate and auditable product documentation, process flows, requirements, decisions, test evidence, and delivery artefacts.

People & Talent
•    Build strong collaborative relationships across business, product, engineering, operations, and control functions.
•    Provide FX platform subject matter support and practical guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders, escalating to senior specialists where required.
•    Contribute to knowledge sharing and capability development within the Product Specialist and wider WDPP community.

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, and escalate technology, operational, regulatory, and information security risks.
•    Support production incident investigation, impact assessment, root cause analysis, problem management, and implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
•    Ensure appropriate controls are considered throughout design, delivery, implementation, and production support activities.
•    Support audit, risk review, and remediation activities where required.

Governance
•    Adhere to Group policies, technology standards, architecture principles, and governance frameworks.
•    Ensure all product changes are supported by appropriate approvals, documentation, testing evidence, and implementation controls.
•    Maintain traceability between business requirements, solution delivery, testing outcomes, and production releases.
•    Provide transparent reporting of delivery status, risks, issues, and dependencies.

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
•    Product Owners
•    Engineering Lead
•    Domain Tech Lead
•    Delivery squad members
•    Business users and stakeholders across FX sales, pricing, order, execution, trade capture, and post-trade workflows
•    Operations and support teams
•    Technology Vendors

Skills and Experience

Software Product Business Knowledge
•    Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; knowledge of the install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.
Requirements Analysis
•    Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyse and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Software Change Request Management
•    Knowledge of, and experience with, managing product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
Scrum
•    Knowledge of the principles, components and features of scrum methodology; ability to apply this methodology to manage software product development processes.
Release Management
•    Knowledge of activities, practices, deliverables and application release techniques; ability to manage and control the implementation of new or enhanced applications into a production/live environment.
Application Delivery Process
•    Knowledge of major tasks, deliverables, and formal application delivery methodologies; ability to utilize these in order to deliver new or enhanced applications.

Qualifications

Education
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

Training
Essentials
•    Typically 6-8 years of relevant experience within financial services technology.
•    Strong experience in Product Delivery, Functional Analysis, Business Analysis, or Technology Delivery roles.
•    Good understanding of the FX trade lifecycle, including pricing, order capture, execution, booking, confirmation, settlement, and downstream integration. Experience with FX products and platforms, such as spot, forwards, swaps, options, order management, or electronic trading solutions.
•    Experience translating business needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
•    Experience working throughout the software delivery lifecycle, including design, build, testing, release, and production support.
•    Strong stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Desirable
•    Good understanding of FX products, market conventions, customer journeys, and platform workflows.
•    Experience with FX order management, pricing, execution, trade capture, or post-trade platforms. Exposure to vendor platforms and market connectivity is beneficial. 
•    Experience with LSEG FX Electronic Trading platform will be an added advantage.
•    Knowledge of SQL, APIs, system integration, data mapping, event flows, and microservice architectures.
•    Experience with Azure DevOps, Confluence, or related delivery tools.

Languages
•    Proficient in Business English (written and verbal communication).

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.