Lead Java Engineer (Risk)
London Stock Exchange Group · London, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Software engineering
Overview
In this Lead Java Engineer role, you will shape the CDSClear risk platform, delivering production-grade risk models and execution patterns at scale. You’ll work closely with risk, pricing and analytics teams to ensure correctness, performance and resilience in a regulated environment. You’ll influence architecture and drive end-to-end delivery, from design to controlled production releases. This is a hands-on IC role with leadership influence and a clear impact on platform direction.
Pay / Benefits- healthcare
- retirement planning
- paid volunteering days
- wellbeing initiatives
- flexible benefits
- sustainability initiatives
- Lead Java engineering across the full SDLC within the CDSClear Risk Development team
- Design and evolve core risk-engine components for intraday and overnight margin calculations
- Translate analytic requirements into production-grade risk model implementations
- Provide technical leadership across risk calculation orchestration
- Integrate market data, trade data, reference data and model parameters
- Focus on performance, scalability, determinism and failure handling
- Owner-through-delivery of business requirements from development to production release
- Drive platform evolution with both incremental and architectural changes
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Participate in third-line system support and out-of-hours rota when required
- Strong server-side Java engineering experience (Java 11+; Java 17+ preferred) using Spring / Spring Boot
- Ability to understand quantitative models and implement them in production systems
- Experience contributing to or shaping a risk-engine architecture for large-scale models
- Understanding of enterprise concerns: performance, scalability, resilience, auditability and controls
- Comfort working in regulated environments with disciplined SDLC and production change processes
- Clear communication with the ability to influence technical decisions
- Ownership mindset focused on quality, robustness and maintainability
- Interest in modern engineering productivity approaches and AI-assisted tooling usage appropriately in controlled environments
- Clear communicator
- Influences technical decisions through collaboration
- Ownership mindset
- Java 11+/17+, Spring Boot
- Maven, IntelliJ
- Messaging: JMS, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Kafka