Lead Developer (Pricing and Risk)
A highly regarded global trading firm are offering the opportunity for a Pricing & Risk Development Lead that will take responsibility for driving the engineering and architectural direction of the firm's Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform, overseeing a global team of Quant Developers, Risk Developers, and Pricing Developers.
The Role
As the Pricing & Risk Development Lead, you will shape and evolve the technology ecosystem that underpins pricing, analytics, and market risk across a sophisticated commodities trading environment. You will provide both hands-on leadership and strategic oversight, ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and aligned to the commercial and risk needs of the business.
Working in a highly visible, consultative capacity, you will partner closely with traders, quants, product controllers, and senior risk stakeholders, steering technical delivery and ensuring solutions meet front-office demands.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery of the firm's global Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform.
- Oversee and mentor a distributed team of Quant, Risk, and Pricing Developers, ensuring consistent technical quality and alignment.
- Engage directly with trading, quantitative, and risk teams to gather requirements, prioritise enhancements, and drive platform development.
- Deliver and govern high-quality code and technical solutions across Python, or alternatively C#, .NET, or Java.
- Ensure best-practice engineering standards across testing, documentation, and development lifecycle processes.
- Shape long-term platform architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with regulatory and business needs.
- Act as a senior technical authority, guiding decision-making for pricing models, risk methodologies, and market data integration.
Required Experience
- Approximately 10 years' experience within software development, pricing, or risk technology in a trading or capital markets environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python (ideal), or other major development languages such as C#, .NET, or Java.
- Deep understanding of commodity trading, ideally across both financial derivatives and physical markets.
- Demonstrable leadership experience managing or guiding technical teams across multiple regions.
- Proven ability to operate in a consultative, stakeholder-facing capacity, engaging front-office, quants, and risk leaders.
- Strong grasp of pricing models, market risk concepts, and associated data flows.
This is a hybrid position in London (3d/w) with a base salary around £160k, flexible depending on experience, and wider package including bonus, pension, healthcare and more.
If you're driven by technical excellence, enjoy leading high-performing teams, and want to make a tangible impact in a fast-moving trading environment, this role offers the perfect platform to do so. Please apply for immediate consideration.