AVP, Quant Development

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Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Lead the design and development of advanced quantitative and AI-driven models for market abuse detection across multiple asset classes and trading venues.

Drive the solutioning and delivery of large-scale surveillance systems in a global investment banking environment.

Ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Business

Collaborate with consultants, MAR monitoring teams, and technology stakeholders to gather requirements and co-create innovative solutions.

Translate regulatory and business requirements into actionable technical designs, using storytelling to bridge gaps between technical and non-technical audiences.

Integrate surveillance models with existing compliance platforms and workflow tools.

Processes

Architect and implement scalable AI / ML models (Python, PySpark, MS Copilot, etc.) for detecting market abuse patterns.

Develop cross-venue monitoring solutions to aggregate, normalize, and analyze trading data from multiple exchanges and platforms using big data frameworks.

Design and optimize real-time and batch processing pipelines for large-scale market data ingestion and analysis.

Conduct backtesting, scenario analysis, and performance benchmarking of surveillance models.

Document model logic, assumptions, and validation results for regulatory audits and internal governance.

People & Talent

Lead code reviews, mentor junior quants / developers, and establish best practices for model validation and software engineering.

Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across business, compliance, and technology teams.

Demonstrate strong storytelling and communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Provide leadership, mentoring, and team guidance.

Risk Management

Build statistical and machine learning models for anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, and alert generation.

Ensure solutions are compliant with global Market Abuse Regulations (MAR, MAD, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, etc.).

Integrate cross-product and cross-venue data sources to enhance surveillance coverage and risk mitigation.

Governance

Maintain code quality, version control, and best practices.

Document and validate models for regulatory audits and internal governance.

Ensure adherence to enterprise-grade surveillance system standards and regulatory compliance.

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 : [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]

Serve as a Director of the Board

Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Economics from a recognized Indian university

Additional certifications in Data Science, Machine Learning, or Financial Engineering (e.g., CFA, FRM, CQF) are must

Skills and Experience

Advanced AI / ML modeling (Python, PySpark, MS Copilot, kdb+ / q, C++, Java)

Must be well versed with SQL and have hands on experience writing SQL (preferably Spark SQL) that is productionized (not ad-hoc queries) for atleast 2-4 years

Familiarity with Cross-Product and Cross-Venue Surveillance Techniques particularly with vendors such as TradingHub, Steeleye, Nasdaq or NICE

Statistical analysis and anomaly detection

Large-scale data engineering and ETL pipeline development (Spark, Hadoop, or similar)

Market microstructure and trading strategy expertise

Experience with enterprise-grade surveillance systems in banking

Integration of cross-product and cross-venue data sources

Regulatory compliance (MAR, MAD, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank)

Code quality, version control, and best practices

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.