Trading Lead

Trading Lead

London Full-Time 57600 - 84000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible
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Job Description

Location: London
Team: Post-Trade Engineering

A leading global trading firm is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to build a real-time sub ledger system powering firmwide P&L and trade journals. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of post-trade infrastructure, distributed systems and financial data.

What You'll Do

  • Lead a small team delivering low-latency, high-throughput post-trade systems
  • Design and implement scalable, event-driven architectures
  • Drive system design, performance, and production readiness
  • Collaborate with trading, finance, and engineering to align priorities and outcomes

Hard Requirements

  • 8+ years' building mission-critical systems in finance
  • Experience with real-time distributed systems, P&L reporting, position management
  • Strong programming skills in Java
  • Leadership experience in high-performance technical teams

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you think you're a good match for the role and would like further info, please contact:

Ali Wilson
ali.wilson@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07412908641
linkedin.com/in/alexander-wilson-050

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Oxford Knight Recruiting Team

Trading Lead
Oxford Knight
Location: London
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