Product Owner, WM Core Platform (Malaysia, China)

Job Summary

This role could be based in Malaysia or China. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based

•    Own the discovery, definition and delivery of change for the Wealth Management Core Platform, with primary focus on the Unit Trust System (UTS) and its upstream and downstream integrations.

•    Translate business, operational and regulatory needs into clear product requirements, change requests, user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery priorities.

•    Act as the accountable bridge between country business teams, operations, technology chapters, external vendors and dependent platforms throughout the delivery lifecycle.

•    Drive outcomes from requirement clarification and solution assessment through design sign-off, testing, release readiness, production deployment and post-release monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership and Delivery 

•    Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring initiatives, epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, prioritised and traceable to business outcomes.

•    Lead requirement discovery and validation with Product, Operations and country stakeholders; identify gaps, challenge assumptions and establish an agreed scope and baseline.

•    Prepare and manage change requests, review vendor responses and functional specifications, resolve open questions, secure stakeholder approvals and provide formal sign-off when requirements are satisfied.

•    Coordinate with engineering, architecture, quality assurance, production engineering, vendors and dependent application teams to assess solutions, manage dependencies and maintain delivery momentum.

•    Plan and support SIT, UAT and business validation; track evidence and defects, secure sign-off, assess release readiness and support deployment and post-production monitoring.

•    Manage delivery risks, scope, priorities, milestones and regulatory deadlines; communicate decisions, trade-offs, dependencies and escalation needs clearly to stakeholders and senior management.

•    Build sufficient functional and technical understanding of UTS, interfaces, data mappings, reports and operational processes to facilitate effective solution discussions and make informed product decisions.

•    Maintain clear delivery documentation and governance records in the agreed collaboration and work-management tools, and drive continuous improvement in product and delivery practices.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills

•    Product Ownership and Backlog Management

•    Requirements Analysis and User Story Definition

•    Stakeholder, Vendor and Dependency Management

•    Agile Delivery, Testing and Release Governance

Other Skills

•    Wealth Management Products and Operations

•    Application Interfaces, Data Mapping and Reporting

•    Risk, Regulatory and Controls Awareness

•    Written and Verbal Communication

•    SQL, Python, shell scripting and basic programming (advantageous)

•    Automation through AI

Motivations

•    Motivated by turning complex business and regulatory needs into practical platform outcomes that improve customer and operational experience.

•    Energised by collaborating across business, operations, technology and vendor teams to resolve ambiguity and deliver shared outcomes.

•    Thrives in a fast-paced, multi-market environment requiring structured analysis, prioritisation, sound judgement and disciplined follow-through.

•    Driven by learning platform functionality and technical flows deeply enough to challenge solutions constructively and make informed product decisions.

•    Demonstrates resilience and ownership when managing competing priorities, delivery dependencies, regulatory deadlines and production risks.

Qualifications

Key Experiences

•    Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or equivalent role delivering complex application changes in financial services.

•    Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, writing change requests or user stories, reviewing functional designs and securing stakeholder sign-off.

•    Experience coordinating vendors and cross-functional technology teams through testing, release and production implementation.

•    Knowledge of system integration patterns and experience defining clear integration specifications for upstream and downstream systems.

•    Proven ability to resolve ambiguity, evaluate trade-offs and lead stakeholder discussions towards agreed decisions and successful outcomes.

•    Demonstrates learning agility, self-motivation and resourcefulness by quickly building domain knowledge, proactively closing knowledge gaps, and making effective use of available people, information and tools to drive outcomes.

•    Working knowledge of wealth management, investment products, order management, client communications or regulatory reporting is highly preferred.

Certifications/Qualifications

•    No mandatory certification. Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience required; Agile or Product Owner certification is advantageous.

Languages

•    Full proficiency English & Mandarin to support business needs in specific market.

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.