全职 Head, Derivatives - Commodities Trade Processing Technology 工作, 薪水, Standard Chartered Bank 公司招聘中 - Ricebowl

Job Summary

• Lead the global Derivatives & Commodities Trade Processing Technology organisation, owning trade capture, trade processing and lifecycle management capabilities across derivatives and commodities products, including booking, workflow orchestration, lifecycle event processing, position management, settlement integration, controls and operational resilience.
• Own the strategy, architecture and delivery roadmap for resilient, scalable and configurable trade processing platforms, ensuring consistent and controlled processing from trade capture through lifecycle completion.
• Drive platform modernisation, application simplification, AI-enabled engineering, automation, observability and data quality improvement to improve business agility, operational resilience and control effectiveness.
• Lead the evolution of strategic trade processing capabilities, enabling faster product onboarding, reduced operational complexity and improved lifecycle processing efficiency across Financial Markets.
• Provide senior engineering leadership across a global organisation, ensuring architecture, security, data, risk and operational design decisions translate into scalable, reliable and well-controlled business outcomes.
• Act as the senior technology partner for Markets Product, Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Architecture and Markets Technology leadership on derivatives and commodities processing strategy, transformation, platform health and regulatory delivery.

Key Responsibilities

The role holder leads others and is accountable for strategy, delivery outcomes, platform resilience, investment prioritisation, technology risk management, stakeholder alignment and organisational capability across the global Derivatives & Commodities Trade Processing Technology organisation.

Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the multi-year technology strategy for derivatives and commodities trade processing capabilities, aligned to business growth, regulatory priorities, enterprise architecture standards and Markets Technology strategy.
• Drive platform convergence and simplification, reducing fragmentation and accelerating strategic platform adoption.
• Lead large-scale transformation initiatives that modernise the technology estate while protecting service resilience and business continuity.
• Ensure platforms support future business growth, new product onboarding and evolving regulatory requirements.

End-to-End Capability Ownership

• Own trade capture, trade processing and lifecycle management capabilities across derivatives and commodities products, including trade validation, enrichment, workflow orchestration, lifecycle event processing, settlement integration and exception management, with accountability for processing integrity, scalability and operational control.
• Own the technology capability supporting trade capture, lifecycle event processing, trade state management and supervisory controls across derivatives and commodities businesses.

Architecture and Platform Modernisation

• Drive simplification of legacy application estates and convergence toward strategic trade processing capabilities, reducing fragmentation, technical debt and operational complexity while improving agility and long-term sustainability.

Technology & Platform Ownership

• Accountable for the strategy, design, resilience and delivery of the derivatives and commodities trade processing platform estate, including strategic lifecycle platforms and associated services.
• Ensure lifecycle events, trade state transitions, valuations, cashflows and downstream integrations are processed accurately, consistently and at scale.
• Drive improvements in straight-through processing, automation, operational efficiency and control effectiveness.
• Establish platform standards covering engineering quality, observability, recoverability, auditability and production resilience.
• Deliver measurable improvements in service stability, platform health and operational performance.

AI & Enterprise Innovation

• Lead adoption of AI-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, workflow technologies and observability capabilities across the organisation to improve software quality, engineering productivity, operational performance and service resilience.
• Drive the application of AI across software engineering, testing, production support, observability, exception management and operational workflows.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to lifecycle processing, control operations, product onboarding and software delivery.
• Ensure responsible adoption of AI through appropriate governance, security, model controls and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to enterprise and Markets-wide AI engineering standards, practices and innovation initiatives. The role aligns with broader AI innovation themes highlighted within Markets technology transformation materials.

Business Leadership

• Act as the primary technology partner to Derivatives and Commodities business leadership, Operations and Product organisations.
• Translate business strategy into technology outcomes, investment priorities and execution roadmaps.
• Influence strategic decisions across business, operations, risk, finance and control functions.
• Drive technology outcomes that improve client experience, operational scalability and business agility.
• Support accelerated onboarding of new products and trading capabilities through configurable and reusable platform services.

Portfolio Governance & Investment Management

• Accountable for technology investment planning, workforce strategy, vendor spend and budget management across the capability.
• Ensure resources are allocated to maximise delivery of strategic objectives, regulatory commitments and platform health outcomes.
• Drive productivity improvements through AI-enabled engineering, automation, simplification and modern delivery practices.
• Act as the accountable executive for material platform investment, architecture, resilience and control decisions within the Derivatives & Commodities Trade Processing estate.
• Represent the capability in architecture, governance, investment, audit, regulatory and prioritisation forums.
• Ensure delivery execution aligns with enterprise standards, target architecture and risk appetite.
• Provide transparent reporting and constructive challenge across senior stakeholder forums.

Risk, Resilience & Controls

• Own technology risk, resilience and control outcomes across the Derivatives & Commodities Trade Processing estate.
• Ensure strong controls, traceability, auditability and operational readiness across all critical services.
• Act decisively on risk and control weaknesses, ensuring timely remediation and appropriate escalation.
• Embed operational resilience, availability and recovery requirements into platform strategy and delivery.
• Partner closely with Risk, Compliance, Audit and Regulatory stakeholders to maintain an effective control environment.

People and Talent

• Lead a globally distributed engineering organisation spanning engineering, platform services, architecture and delivery leadership.
• Build a high-performing, engineering-led culture focused on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement and business ownership.
• Develop future leaders and establish strong succession pipelines across critical technology capabilities.
• Champion AI-enabled software engineering, platform ownership, DevOps excellence and modern engineering practices.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts, develops and retains exceptional technical talent.

Our Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is motivated by the opportunity to shape a strategic business capability, influence enterprise technology direction and lead large-scale transformation at global scale.
They are energised by:

• Building strategic platforms that enable business growth and competitive advantage.
• Leading complex transformation and technology modernisation programmes.
• Solving large-scale lifecycle processing, control and resiliency challenges.
• Influencing senior stakeholders and shaping investment decisions.
• Creating high-performing engineering organisations and future leaders.
• Delivering measurable outcomes through simplification, automation and AI innovation.
• The role will particularly appeal to leaders motivated by enterprise impact, capability ownership and transformational change.

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in Markets Technology with strong knowledge of Derivatives and Commodities trading and post-trade processing.
• Proven leadership of large-scale engineering teams and mission-critical technology platforms.
• Strong understanding of trade processing, lifecycle management and regulatory expectations.
• Experience leading technology transformation, platform modernisation.
• Demonstrated success delivering strategic change while maintaining operational stability.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Certifications / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Software Product Business Knowledge
• Technology Strategy, Innovation and AI Enablement
• Technology Platform and Engineering Leadership
• People Leadership and Team Culture
• Strategic Stakeholder and Portfolio Management
• Operational Resilience and Service Management

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: *************

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.