Job Description
Job Description
We are supporting a major global financial institution in hiring a Senior Market Risk Developer. This is a senior technical role within their Capital Markets Risk Technology group, focused on building and integrating applications that support Market & Credit Risk functions.
You’ll act as a senior developer across multiple Risk IT initiatives, designing and delivering complex components within a fixed income technology stack that blends in-house tools and vendor systems.
The role involves full-lifecycle software development - requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment - and contributing to system integration across distributed multi-tier environments.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop and integrate Java / Groovy components within fixed income risk platforms.
- Work across a mixed stack including in-house tools and vendor systems ( ION, Bloomberg, Murex, Polypaths ).
- Support Market & Credit Risk functions through enhancements to valuations, trade flows and risk models.
- Execute requirements gathering, detailed design, coding, unit / integ testing and documentation.
- Ensure alignment with business objectives, security standards and technical requirements.
- Promote engineering best practices and contribute to continuous improvement across the team.
- Deliver quality assurance and technical guidance within multi-project environments.
Requirements
Essential :
5+ years in IT / Application Development within capital markets.Strong programming expertise in Java / Groovy and Python, with a focus on systems integration.Strong SQL and experience with Java platform & open-source tools.Experience with Murex, Polypaths or similar securitized products systems.Understanding of fixed income markets, trade flows, valuations and risk management.Experience building and supporting distributed multi-tier applications.Familiarity with SDLC tools / frameworks : Git, Gradle, Camel, Kafka.Exposure to AWS (EC2, S3).Comfortable working in both Agile and Waterfall environments.Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.Nice to Have :
Experience with ION or Bloomberg integrations.Knowledge of cloud-native development patterns.Benefits
12-month contract, with a view for longer term extension.
Hybrid role with 3 days in office.
January start date.
Paying up to $145,000 per annum.