Software Development Manager in London

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to learn and make a difference in financial markets infrastructure? We’re looking for passionate technologists to help us lead the way.

Responsibilities

• Manage development efforts for CDSClear’s Clearing Platform and lead a team of Engineers based in London.
• Manage the development of software components handling market connectivity, trade registration, trade life‑cycling and reporting.
• Work closely with the broader development team covering Risk and External Portal components as well as the QA and IT Support areas.
• Partner with the CDSClear business stakeholders to take the platform and business through the next stage of business development.
• Leverage automation and new innovations in AI tooling to enhance quality and time‑to‑market.
• Lead the engineering of CDSClear’s clearing platform with functions including external market connectivity, trade registration, life‑cycling and reporting.
• Direct management responsibility of London based team members.
• Collaborate with Risk Development, QA, IT Support and other colleagues to deliver high quality end‑to‑end solutions.
• Engage with projects during full SDLC and take ownership for delivery of high quality solutions through to production.
• Lead Continuous Improvement across the IT stack to address defects, improve delivery productivity and iteratively modernise the overall platform.
• Face‑off to Stakeholders – Business Transformation, Product, Risk, Operations, Customer Success Management, Engineering Architecture, Compliance and Second Line Risk, to understand business requirements, design solutions and deliver high impact production change.
• Manage third‑line support of Production and Test systems.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Engineering Principles and Industry Good Practice applicable to Financial Markets Infrastructure.
• Engineering of a Java / Oracle technology stack in a Financial Services environment.
• Able to develop a vision for system improvement to be executed in iterations over multiple years.
• Appreciation of DevOps tools and technologies such as GitLab, Ansible, Terraform and Helm.
• Lead, coach and develop Engineering staff in business aligned teams.
• Demonstrated ability to maximise automated test tooling.
• Strong verbal and written English skills.
• System design knowledge applicable to Derivative Trade Capture or Front‑to‑Back processing systems or similar.
• Lead all aspects of the engineering of external connectivity and protocol implementation (FpML workflows), trade life‑cycling functions, data quality controls, retention strategies and Member, Client and Regulatory reporting solutions.
• Delivery management of multi‑person and multi‑month initiatives following plans agreed with business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Credit Derivative Trade Capture and Life‑cycling as well as knowledge of Derivative Clearing.
• Embraced AI development tools in a team environment to successfully accelerate development and/or improve quality of output.
• AWS Cloud Architecture experience.
• Knowledge of market risk reporting will be useful.