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.
January start date.
Salary up to $90,000 per annum.