Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It\'s about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We\'re committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The Financial Markets IT function is responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure which underpin the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s services for Financial Markets clients.

FM TPT is a dynamic and diverse team within the FM IT department spread across multiple global locations and is focused on enhancing the technical and operational capabilities of the Financial Markets trade and post trade functions. It is a forward thinking and highly productive area and an excellent place for technologists and associated support functions to succeed in a rapidly changing and challenging environment.

The Senior Development Manager is a senior strategic role, he / she will be in charge of driving the end-to-end design of complex Financial Markets Features with front-to-back users and diverse development teams.

The successful candidate will become technology authority for building mission critical distributed system and will be consulted on a regular basis to provide design guidelines during the development and delivery cycles. He / she will influence the overall tech architecture strategy by promoting a culture of innovation and enforcing best practices.

Strategy

The role must work closely with the Development team covering the Financial Markets derivatives and FM Architecture to align the technology strategy and priorities to those of the businesses. While the strategy of the derivatives business units is to continue to grow in client base, markets and products, the growth is currently limited by capacity constraint and obsolescence risk of the trade processing platform, Murex G2000. To remove this growth constraint, the top priority set for Derivatives Technology is to build and implement a new, modern, and scalable front-to-back solution to support the businesses and decommission the legacy vendor system.

Business

The role requires the individual to have strong knowledge and understanding of the derivatives markets, products, sales and trading activities, and business processes of the supporting functions. The individual must be able to partner with business stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor for addressing their technology requirements.

Specifically, the individual performing the role must possess knowledge of the Interest Rate, Credit, FX Options, and Commodities businesses from a trade and post trade processing perspective.

Processes

The individual performing the role needs to be knowledgeable of and work with the following processes

• Business processes from the sales and trading desks, the COO team, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations, Legal & Compliance, Regulatory Operations, and Product Control and Finance.
• Technology processes for budgeting and planning, project prioritization, agile way of working, DevOps, FM Technology architecture standards and roadmap, software change release, technology on-boarding (SACA)

People and Talent

The individual performing the role must possess the following people leader capabilities

• Ability to identify, attract and retain high quality, well-rounded technology engineering talent.
• Develop and grow staff into multi-disciplinary, self-sufficient technologists with high competence in the business and technology domains.
• Organize and motivate work teams into Agile Squads with dedicated Product Owner(s) and Scrum Masters.
• Collaborate and establish teamwork with peer technology teams, particularly Risk Technology, Regulatory Technology and Finance Technology.
• Promote a culture of innovation and reward contribution to give SCB a competitive advantage.

Risk Management

The individual performing the role will be required to

• Understand and proficient in trading and market risk management.
• Understanding of operational risk management.
• Expertise in risk managing technology projects.
• Understanding and ability to manage technology risks such as obsolescence, cyber vulnerability, and production operational failures.

Governance

Responsible for executing the optimal delivery governance for the FM Re-platforming program.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders

• Benjamin Mourad, Chief Product Owner for FM Re-platforming
• Ian Gill, Macro Middle Office
• Jeannie Wee, Middle Office, Head of Rates ASA
• Jonathan Birch, Head of FX and Derivatives Confirmation, and FMRP Post Trade Chief Product Owner
• Ian Stephenson, Global Head of Trade Processing Post Trade Technology
• Guillem Vidal, Head FM Risk and Re-platforming Technology
• Arun Nair, Head FXMM and Derivatives Settlmnts and Transformation
• Alexandre Nguyen, FM re-platforming Post Trade Delivery Head
• Juho Savenius, Head of Blade Delivery
• Omar Iqbal, FM Regulatory Program Manager
• Jude Kasijo, FM Conduct Program Manager
• Raphael Moline, Head FM PSS
• Mark Tidmarsh, Head, Tech Support - FM China and Tech Svces, China
• Rajesh Soares, Distinguished Engineer, Data and Cyber
• Alan McInnes, Distinguished Engineer, SABRE

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience with Java / J2EE development experience.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand and interact with technical teams on various domains; big-data, middleware, Integration / APIs and Micro Services.
• Produce design and architecture documentation and drive the solutioning work.
• Set the direction and approach for building innovative solutions, applications and programs.
• Enforce methodologies to ensure compliance with the Technology Architecture principles and assess the optimal solutions (TCO, build versus buy, user experience, etc).
• Awareness of latest technological trends, specifically relating to modern application development both on-premise and in the cloud.
• Inner source experience will be a plus - adopting open source development practises in organization.
• Define architecture strategy across the Data, Application and Technology domains for all applications within remit.
• Overall responsibility for obtaining Architecture approval from Internal Architecture council.
• Review solution design, and provide technical architectural direction to individual initiatives within the team.
• Sense of ownership - autonomously driving initiatives and improvements without needing close management.
• Produce compelling and attractive presentations for different types of audiences (Technical teams, Architects, Senior Tech Managers and Users).
• Interact seamlessly with multi-located teams.
• Influence and mentor the technology teams.
• Anticipate and communicate pro-actively with the Program Management team / Senior stakeholders / Technology Management. Experience in developing robust, distributed, scalable, high production quality applications.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java / Microservice
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
• Database
• Testing
• Monitoring
• Security

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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