Job Summary

Lead the global Settlements technology organisation, owning post-trade settlement capabilities across asset classes, including settlement processing, payment accuracy, settlement instruction integration, netting, exception management, controls and regulatory readiness.
•    Own the strategy, architecture and delivery roadmap for resilient, standardised and scalable settlement platforms, ensuring consistent processing from trade enrichment and instruction generation through payment, settlement status, accounting and exception resolution.
•    Drive platform modernisation, application simplification, data quality improvement, AI-enabled engineering, automation and observability to increase straight-through processing, reduce manual intervention and settlement risk, and improve resilience and cost discipline.
•    Provide senior engineering leadership across a global team, ensuring architecture, security, data, risk and operational design decisions translate into accurate, timely and controlled settlement outcomes.
•    Act as the senior technology partner for Markets Product, Markets COO, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Architecture and Markets Technology leadership on settlement strategy, transformation, service performance and regulatory delivery.

Key Responsibilities

The role holder leads others and is accountable for strategic direction, delivery outcomes, technology risk management, stakeholder alignment and talent development across the global Settlements technology organisation.
•     Strategy and transformation: Define and execute the multi-year settlement technology strategy across asset classes, aligned to Markets Technology, Post Trade Services, regulatory priorities and enterprise architecture standards.
•    End-to-end capability ownership: Own settlement processing from trade enrichment and settlement instruction integration through netting, payment generation, accounting, status management, exception handling and completion, with clear accountability for accuracy, timeliness and control.
•    Platform ownership and business outcomes: Lead resilient, standardised and scalable settlement platforms and integrations, improving straight-through processing, payment accuracy, capacity, stability, release quality and service performance.
•    Architecture and modernisation: Simplify legacy estates and drive convergence toward strategic settlement capabilities, including RATAN, GPTM, SSI+, LCM-CLS, FMSWIFTGATEWAY and related integration with upstream trade-processing and downstream payment, messaging, accounting and reporting services.
•    Controls, risk and regulatory readiness: Strengthen preventive and detective controls, settlement instruction quality, entitlement governance, data lineage, payment controls, audit readiness, cyber remediation and delivery of market, country and regulatory change. 
•    Automation, AI and observability: Apply intelligent automation, AI engineering, workflow management and end-to-end monitoring to reduce exceptions and manual intervention, accelerate root-cause identification and improve operational outcomes.
•    Portfolio governance: Partner with Portfolio and Technology leadership to prioritise investment, manage run and change spend, address obsolescence and technical debt, and provide transparent executive reporting.
•    Stakeholder and people leadership: Partner with Product, Markets COO, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Architecture, Cyber Security and Enterprise Technology; lead a global team with clear accountabilities, strong succession and a culture of engineering excellence, inclusion and pro-business delivery.

People and Talent 
•    Set direction and drive high performance by translating strategy into clear direction, aligning individual goals to team outcomes and providing regular, constructive feedback.
•    Develop talent and capability through coaching and career conversations that build critical skills, stretch potential and prepare individuals for future opportunities.
•    Lead by example by role-modelling the Bank’s valued behaviours, upholding strong risk and conduct standards, exercising sound judgment, and creating an inclusive team culture that supports wellbeing, values diverse perspectives, and drives accountability.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills    
    •    Cross-Asset Settlements Domain Expertise
    •    Technology Strategy, Innovation and AI Enablement
    •    Technology Platform and Engineering Leadership
Other Skills    
    •    Settlement Risk, Controls and Regulatory Readiness
    •    People Leadership and Team Culture
    •    Strategic Stakeholder and Portfolio Management
    •    Operational Resilience and Service Management

Motivations

This role is energised by solving complex, cross-asset settlement challenges that combine deep technology, operational resilience, control rigour and measurable business impact.
•    Building high-performing global engineering teams and creating a culture where payment accuracy, resilience, collaboration and accountability are non-negotiable.
•    Delivering measurable improvements in settlement timeliness, straight-through processing, payment accuracy, operational resilience, risk reduction and time-to-market.
•    Shaping future-ready settlement platforms by combining standardisation, intelligent automation, AI engineering, strong controls and pragmatic delivery discipline.

Qualifications

Key Experiences    
•    15+ years of Financial Markets technology experience with significant leadership responsibility across cross-asset settlement and payment platforms. Demonstrated experience delivering settlement transformation, payment and instruction integration, netting, controls, regulatory change, resilience improvement and large-scale post-trade technology modernisation.
•    Demonstrable experience applying AI engineering, intelligent automation or advanced analytics to production technology and operational workflows, with clear control and business outcomes.
•    Strong technical background with credibility to challenge architecture and integration decisions across settlement processing, payment flows, messaging, data and controls, and translate technical choices into business outcomes.
•    Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in Financial Markets technology, ideally including cross-asset settlements, payments or broader post-trade environments.
•    Proven ability to lead global teams, cultivate engineering excellence, partner effectively with Operations and Product, and deliver resilient, controlled and scalable settlement outcomes.
Certifications / Qualifications     
•    Graduate degree required. Relevant certifications in AI/ML delivery are advantageous.
Languages    
•    English required. Additional regional language capability is beneficial for global team and stakeholder engagement.

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.