Standard Chartered
Global Head, Markets FO Risk & Trader Tools Tech
London
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Global Head of Market Front Office (FO) Risk and Trader Tools
Job Summary
The Global Head of Market FO Risk and Trader Tools is accountable for the strategic direction, engineering leadership, delivery, and operational integrity of a globally significant platform estate supporting:
- Front-office risk management
- Trader tooling
- Risk analytics
- Control-critical workflows across Financial Markets
Based in the UK, this is a Managing Director opportunity, operating within the Trading & Operations (T&O 30) and Markets Target Operating Model. The role leads a large global organisation, owning technology capabilities essential for:
- Trading control
- Decision support
- Risk transparency
- Resilience
- Regulatory confidence
Key Positioning: Reports to the Markets Technology Management Team, providing enterprise-scale technology, engineering, and people leadership across front-office risk and trader tool capabilities—aligning business priorities, regulatory demands, and scalable, resilient platform outcomes.
Key Scope and Capabilities
Intraday Risk
Technology platforms and workflows providing:
- Timely visibility of front-office risk exposures
- Limit usage and sensitivity monitoring
- Real-time risk movement tracking Enabling informed decision-making, effectiveness in control, and rapid escalation of material changes.
Lifecycle Events
Supporting:
- Generation and reporting of trade lifecycle events (including:
- Payments processing
- Barrier events
- Early termination management)
- Ensuring accuracy, control, and accessibility.
Market Risk Batch
Batch processing services generating:
- Risk measures
- Sensitivity outputs
- Scenario-generation datasets
- Reporting for oversight, control, and analytics Focusing on timeliness, completeness, performance, and control integrity.
Deal Stores
Core trade and position data stores underpinning:
- Front-office risk
- Trader tooling
- Downstream processes Ensuring:
- Accuracy of trade populations
- Controlled and accessible representation of lifecycle states, positions, and attributes across products and businesses.
Key Responsibilities
Quant Interface (Cortex)
Directs technology interfaces and services connecting:
- Front-office platforms to quantitative libraries
- Models and analytics engines Objectives:
- Enable controlled integration of pricing, risk, and scenario capabilities within trader/risk workflows
- Balance performance, transparency, and model governance
- Support scalability and resilient functionality.
Market & Product Data
Oversees:
- Services for sourcing, distribution, quality, and governance of relevant data assets
- Market data, static data, and product-related attributes
- Ensures seamless support for:
- Risk calculation
- Trader decision support
- Analytics and control processes across front-office tools.
Business Growth and Innovation
Responsibilities:
- Develop a risk-tech stack supporting rapid product innovation
- Collaborate with Quants and front-to-back teams to ensure seamless integration of new payoffs while enabling dynamic scaling
- Prioritise efficient use of infrastructure assets.
Strategy
- Set end-to-end technology strategy for Market FO Risk & Trader Tools, ensuring that architecture, engineering, and platform investments deliver:
- Scalability
- Resilience
- Well-controlled risk workflows
- Decision-support tooling
- Align platform direction with Markets, Technology, and Group priorities
- Lead strategic change initiatives, prioritising:
- Business growth
- Control enhancements
- Regulatory compliance
- Platform modernisation
- Resilience improvements
- Drive simplification, enforce common engineering standards, and encourage component reuse to:
- Reduce fragmentation
- Improve maintainability
- Enhance cross-platform consistency
- Own a multi-year modernisation roadmap addressing:
- Obsolescence
- Resilience
- Engineering efficiency
- Long-term sustainably of critical services
- Execute visible leadership in identifying, escalating, and remediating material platform issues, control weaknesses, or delivery risks.
- Champion productivity, control, and resilience improvements across:
- Software development lifecycle
- Automation
- Deliverable quality, speed, and predictability
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AI & Innovation
- Provide senior AI leadership across Markets Technology, as an SME for:
- AI engineering
- Consistent adoption of:
- Design patterns
- Standards
- Guardrails
- Observability
- Secure-by-design protocols
- Support cross-markets innovation through:
- Automation of end-of-life (EOL) processes
- Remediation of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) via tooling and best practices
- Deliver AI-enabled gains in:
- Engineering productivity
- Enhanced product capabilities
- Translatable business value driven by innovative solutions
- Partner with businesses to articulate AI’s "art of the possible", facilitating scalable, client personalisation, and operational efficiency tied to Group-wide platform strategies.
Business
- Serve as the senior technology partner to Markets and key functional stakeholders, aligning:
- Technology priorities
- Service expectations
- Investments with business, control, and regulatory goals
- Promote a product/platform-led operating model, fostering:
- Reusable, well-governed capabilities
- Timely market entry
- Reduction of fragmentation
- Lead investment strategies, balancing:
- Strategic change
- Mandatory remediation
- Platform health
- Workforce capacity
- Collaborate with Traded Risk, Finance, Compliance, Architecture, and Infrastructure to translate complex requirements into cost-efficient and compliant solutions.
- Manage capabilities and vendor relationships securing optimal:
- Commercial outcomes
- Service resilience
- Lifecycle control.
Processes
- Embed engineering rigor, Agile, and DevOps principles to enhance:
- Control-by-design practices
- Release disciplines
- Traceability & observability
- Ensure compliance with defined processes integrating automation to:
- Uplift quality and control
- Improve release consistency and repeatability
- Establish engineering standards for:
- Data integrity
- Security
- Resilience
- Recuperability
- Champion continuous improvement across:
- Platform stability
- Engineering productivity
- Incident learning
- Adhere to Technology and Group risk/control frameworks, working collaboratively with risk functions to support:
- Regulatory compliance initiatives
- Strong governance
People & Talent
- Provide visible leadership across a global engineering organisation (500+), cultivating expertise in:
- Front-office risk platforms
- Trader tooling
- Architecture & controls
- Resilience
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-calibre talent with ambitions to:
- Foster diversity of thought, gender, and background in senior roles
- Build high-performing teams emphasising:
- Data accuracy and control rigour
- Institutionalise inclusivity initiatives, including:
- Objective Career Development
- Balanced talent decision-making
- Cultural norms that value diverse viewpoints
- Lead through example, setting cultural expectations for:
- Performance excellence
- Accountability
- Ethical conduct
- Positive collaboration
- Iron-clad controls
- Develop leadership and technical expertise to fill future gaps in:
- Platform engineering
- Architecture
- Data & controls
- DevOps practices
- Establish clear career pathways and succession planning for critical roles.
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Risk Management
- Continuously assess risk and control posture, initiating remediation when weaknesses emerge.
- Escalate issues at the right level to ensure timeously addressed threats are mitigated and governance pipelines are followed.
- Act as a risk/control ownership scribe under relevant internal frameworks.
- Embed internal, legal, and regulatory controls into:
- Platform strategy
- Design
- Delivery
- Change management
- Operational workflows.
- Balance performance investment with risk appetite at global level.
Governance
- Participate in governance forums influencing:
- Architectural design
- Investment roadmaps
- Overarching strategy
- Ensure adherence to:
- Regulatory conduct benchmarks
- Internal compliance policies
- Local anti-money laundering and banking laws
- Align delivery scope, milestones, and priorities with:
- Control obligations
- Operational needs
- Foster open forums, engaging constructively with:
- Regulators
- Control functions
- Stakeholders
Requirements
Education
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Quantitative Discipline
- Alternative: Equivalent practical experience
Experience
- Extensive senior technology leadership within financial markets banking
- Proven track record in:
- Leading large global IT organisations
- Transforming platforms at scale
- Overseeing critical-risk service operations
- Strong foundation in:
- Modern engineering disciplines
- Platform architecture
- Cloud-enabled delivery models.
- Preferably with:
- Advanced vendor management experience
- reports into executive leadership oversight.
About Standard Chartered
We are a 170-year-old global bank dedicated to contributing positive impact—questioning norms, embracing challenges, and turning opportunities into sustainable growth. Standard Chartered attracts trailblazers who wrap both purpose and culture into their careers.
Why join us? Our unique pride is to make a difference—hand-in-hand, prioritising inclusion as a clear strength. We celebrate curiosity, fearlessness, and a keen eye for community value.
Our Values
- Do the right thing: Operate with integrity and boldness, championing clients at every action.
- Never settle: Celebrate continuous improvement, learn from successes and setbacks.
- Are better together: Embrace individuality and inclusion, linking diverse perspectives toward long-term growth.
What We Offer
Compensation & Wellbeing
- Fair pay chartered compensation backed with:
- Competitive rewards
- Retirement funding
- Medical/life insurance
- Flexible options: Custom-benefit packages covering tasks like:
- Parental/long maternity (20 weeks)
- Sabbaticals
- Volunteering leave
- Total Work-Life Balance:
-
30 days’ minimum leave entitlement (annual + public holidays)
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- Wellbeing Support:
- Emphasises mental and physical support through:
- Unmind (digital toolset)
- Resilience training
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Mental health first-aid training
- Emphasises mental and physical support through:
Growth & Development
- Learning culture emphasising:
- Skill-building courses
- Continuous reskilling
- Inclusive workspace: Values individuals from every background, pioneering internal programmes to advance personal growth.
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