Market Risk Senior Developer

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.