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.

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