Lead Java Engineer (Risk)

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.

• 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