Job Description

Role Responsibilities
Join the global credit markets platform technology team to build the next generation Booking, Pricing, and Risk apps for credit securities and derivatives products.
Key expectations

• Rebuild Credit Derivatives/Products (from murex2.1) Booking, Processing, Pricing and controls to a new in-house platform with new capabilities to be designed or existing ones extended, streamline the onboarding of new payoffs.
• Integration with Booking and data APIs.
• Intra-day risk leveraging books of records and risk engine.
• Support the platform enhancements and innovation book of work around achieving low code and faster time-to-market for new financial markets products/apps.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver expected outcomes i.e., dozens of products re-platformed.
• scope management: Work with business stakeholders on the scope, schedule, and mitigation of identified risks. Drive cross-team coordination and prioritization of work relating to Products, Segments, T&I.
• Develop and execute plans and analyze backlog and priorities.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Team management - direct or matrix org.

Stakeholders

• Financial markets platform teams, risk Engine, market data, static data, booking services.
• Developers, Business analysts, SMEs, Program managers, Credit Traders

Our Ideal Candidate
What we are looking for in the candidate

• Academic background in Science/Technology (preference for quantitative/analytics/engineering)
• 10 years of relevant experience in Banking / Financial Markets/product companies with strong product and project management skills.
• Delivering credit or equivalent derivatives products booking, pricing and risk (intraday).

The candidate should also be able to demonstrate:

• Design-thinking/first approach to systems in the context of financial markets products and ability to articulate a delivery approach - features, plan, execution, resourcing and execution risk management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demanding stakeholders and teams.
• Hands-on

Functional and Technical skills

• Expertise in Product/Platform Design-thinking (architecture, UX, Journeys) and product management.
• Expertise in financial products logical modelling.
• Expertise in Trade Booking, life cycling, Processing and Pricing/Ref/Mkt Data, Risk and Analytics.
• Ability to learn new tools/systems (risk, processing systems) and understand technology and functional designs.
• Strong work management (eliciting work, documenting, tracking) skills: Scrum and Confluence/JIRA management as well as able to handle multiple scrums.
• Broad understanding of technology & modern stacks.

Soft skills

• Fluent in Business Communication (speaking and writing).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, self-starter
• strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution-oriented with proven results.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Expertise in Product/Platform Design-thinking (architecture, UX, Journeys) and product management.
• Expertise in Trade Booking, life cycling, Processing and Pricing/Ref/Mkt Data, Risk and Analytics.
• Expertise in financial products logical modelling.
• Ability to learn new tools/systems (risk, processing systems) and understand technology and functional designs.

About 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 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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