Risk Senior Manager, Risk Strategy in London

ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a Risk Senior Manager to focus on developing, managing and delivering the Risk IT strategy for the organisation. The successful candidate will join the 1st Line Risk team in ICE Clear Europe and work closely with local business facing technology teams as well as the central Technology and Quants teams based in Atlanta to deliver tailored risk solutions to the risk team. The wider team you are joining is responsible for risk managing a wide range of futures and option products across multiple asset classes, in one of the largest clearinghouses in the world. Fast paced, enthusiastic, self‑motivated & ambitious, you will have the ability to work on your own initiative, manage your own workload and meet project targets - and a track record to back this up.

Responsibilities

• Help define the IT Strategy for the CRD business, build consensus with technology partners, and manage key strategic deliveries for the business.
• Work with the Atlanta Technology Team to migrate key services to the central Risk Platform, with the strategic aim that London produces specific end‑user analytical tooling & reporting over these services.
• Work with the local BI Tableau team to migrate core reporting to this infrastructure.
• Work closely with Risk Managers and Product owners to ensure that application solutions meet the business needs, with frequent agile releases to end users.
• Work with the existing London team to create, maintain and support existing End User Developed Applications (EUDA); support is ordinarily limited to office hours.
• Create new Rapid Application Development (RAD) tooling for front line Risk Management, building reliable applications which will be used to manage emerging Member and Client Risks.
• Develop across the technology stack; the team is currently working in Python & SQL.
• Work across the local technology and business team to improve agile delivery and constantly find improvements to SDLC.

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven development skills in Python and SQL at a similar organization, with a minimum of 4 years of commercial development experience as part of an agile team.
• Ability to build and develop technology consensus across multiple teams, ensuring short and long term goals are aligned and delivered against.
• Experience of using Snowflake, and analytical engines such as Cortex would be beneficial.
• Experience with trading, clearing, fund management or a related industry highly preferred.
• Understanding of iterative development methodologies such as Agile or Kanban.
• Able to work in geographically spread teams, building strong relationships with colleagues in different locations.
• Be confident in understanding business processes and analytics, and able to translate requirements into solid, testable technical solutions.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment where business demands rightly change due to market moves or regulatory needs.
• Data management experience obtained in a Financial Organisation or Consultancy working in Finance, where you have experience in embedding the importance of data modelling and management within the culture of an organization would be desirable.
• Knowledge and experience of delivery solutions in Javascript would be beneficial.
• Proven organizational skills with strong commitment to customer service and product delivery.
• Prior experience of risk systems is desirable, with an understanding of risk management concepts including one or more of back testing, stress testing, VaR, risk metrics or default management.
• Knowledge of financial derivatives products across multiple asset classes would be beneficial.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical skills. Detail oriented, results-driven and self-motivated.