Job Summary

Join Standard Chartered’s Markets Technology team as a SABRE Programme Delivery Risk Manager, a key member supporting the development of the bank’s strategic cross-asset pricing and risk management platform. You’ll oversee programme delivery risks for a USD 40M annual portfolio, ensuring accurate tracking, timely communication, and full compliance with governance standards. Working closely with the Programme Manager, Project Managers, Operational Risk, and Internal Audit teams, you’ll help ensure every key milestone and go-live meets the bank’s rigorous standards and is properly documented in Clarity systems. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional passionate about financial markets, technology, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage programme delivery risks, ensuring accurate tracking, timely communication, and reporting in line with bank standards.
• Coordinate with Programme and Project Managers on milestones, go-lives, and governance approvals.
• Maintain programme documentation in Clarity systems, ensuring complete audit trails and RAID lifecycle evidence.
• Liaise with Operational Risk, Enterprise Change Management, and Internal Audit teams to meet compliance expectations.
• Support programme governance by ensuring adherence to approval processes and standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement within the SABRE programme delivery framework.

Skills & Experience

•    Minimum 8 years of experience in banking, preferably in Financial Markets.
•    Experience interacting with Operational Risk Officers and Auditors.
•    Familiarity with Clarity systems and enterprise change management processes.
•    Passion for innovation, learning, and continuous improvement within financial technology environments.
•    Strong knowledge of Project Management methodologies (Waterfall & Agile).
•    Hands-on experience managing RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) on large-scale programmes.
•    Excellent command of English; experience working in global, multicultural environments.
•    Solid academic background in Mathematics / Financial Mathematics / Statistics (MSc or PhD preferred).
•    Understanding of options & derivatives pricing in at least one asset class.
•    Highly structured, organised, and detail-oriented.
•    Proactive, self-starter with a problem-solving mindset.
•    Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
•    Integrity, accountability, and commitment to regulatory and business conduct excellence.

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.