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Head of Development, Credit Risk Technology

Requisition Number: 37436
Job Location (Short): Singapore, SGP
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 11/11/2025
Posting End Date: 25/11/2025
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JOB SUMMARY
This is one-year contract role
Role Overview:
Lead the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions for Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) aggregation and collateral modelling. Responsible for technical strategy, architecture, and team leadership to ensure robust, scalable, and regulatory-compliant CCR platforms.Define and execute CCR technology roadmap and architecture.
Oversee design, development, and deployment of CCR platforms and applications.
Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams across multiple locations.
Ensure solutions meet regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements.
Drive adoption of best practices in software engineering, DevOps, and agile delivery.
Monitor emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
Collaborate with stakeholders in Risk, Product, and Operations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
The successful candidate will play a leading role in the delivery of multiple highly visible strategic Credit Risk Program's with the primary responsibilities around Development activities.
The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility, and accountability for critical deliveries.
The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exact requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with developers, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.
Business

• Contribute to the overall effectiveness of the department and projects.
• Play an active role in defining and improving the project and the application.
• Understanding of financial markets business - front/middle/back office
• Proven exposure over a number of years of large project/programme involvement in financial markets

Processes

• Deployment automation and monitoring of the application.
• Developing appropriate solutions for the application based on the requirements.

People & Talent

• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
• Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
• Strong analytical skills.
• A bachelor's degree in a numerate subject (e.g. science or engineering degree).
• Maintain high productivity in a fast-paced environment showing effective prioritization skills.

Technical knowledge

• Excellent Java knowledge and experience in developing scalable, multi-threaded applications.
• Proficiency in software architecture, microservices, and API design.
• Good understanding of ELK stack.
• Understanding of Cloud based deployment strategies and tools like OpenShift, Kubernetes, public cloud.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (Basel III/IV, FRTB, etc.).
• Experience with integration of market data, trade data, and agreement details.
• Knowledge and experience of working on streaming based solution like using Kafka.
• Good understanding of OO design principles and patterns.
• UNIX and Windows development experience.
• Understanding of SQL queries and database objects

Risk Management

• Should adhere to SCB standards of Risk Managements

Governance

• Should adhere to SCB standards of Governance

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• Traded Risk Managers, Front office Traders, Model & Analytics group, Risk Modelling team.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)
• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.

Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude. * Do the right thing: Be brave, be the change; Think client; Live with integrity.
Never Settle: Continuously improve and innovate; Simplify; Learn from your successes and failures.
Better together: See more in others; How can I help? Build for the long term.
Our Ideal Candidate

• Education: Bachelor's degree or post graduate degree
• Experience: 12+ years of experience in Java, Spring boot and Microservices

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analytical Skills
• Java
• Spring Boot Microservices, REST API
• Azure Devops, Docker, GitHub, Ansible,
• OpenShift, Kubernetes
• ClickHouse

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.

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