The position is within the Prime Services Technology organization for a hands-on senior technology leader responsible for driving the build-out of the strategic Prime Risk & Margin platform. The role oversees the end-to-end technology team delivering real-time risk, margin, and analytics capabilities supporting Prime Brokerage, Delta-1, and Synthetic Financing businesses.
Qualified candidates will have deep experience delivering large-scale technology transformations in front-office risk, margin, or capital optimization domains, with proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders across Front Office, Risk, Finance, Operations, and Compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, and rollout of the strategic Prime Risk & Margin platform supporting Prime Brokerage, Delta-1, Synthetics, and Financing desks.
- Drive migration of risk, margin, exposure, and scenario workflows from legacy systems onto the new strategic architecture.
- Partner with MD-level stakeholders across trading, risk policy, quant, and product teams to shape roadmap and delivery priorities.
- Collaborate closely with Product Development, BA, and cross-functional teams to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met.
- Own and execute the multi-year technology roadmap across globally distributed teams (New York, India, and other regions).
- Architect target-state distributed systems for Prime Risk, Portfolio Margining, stress testing, and exposure management.
- Produce functional specifications, technical design documents, and oversee testing frameworks for risk and margin workflows.
- Manage full SDLC lifecycle including analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards across risk, margin, and exposure technology domains.
- Serve as the technical and functional SME for Prime Risk & Margin processes, methodologies, and system integration.
- Tackle complex analytical and computational challenges involving large datasets, high-performance calculation engines, and time-sensitive risk workloads.
- Ensure quality, maintainability, resiliency, and scalability across all platform components.
Required Experience:
- 6+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3+ years of management or leadership experience
- 6+ years of capital markets or securities industry experience
- 6+ years of direct experience in Prime Brokerage, Equity Finance, Delta-1, Synthetic Financing, or Margin/Risk technology
- 6+ years of application development experience, Strong proficiency in Java and/or C++ in low-latency trading or risk environments
- 6+ years designing or building high-performance distributed systems
- 6+ years managing application development teams (onshore + offshore) in Agile environments.
- 5+ years of architectural design experience with distributed compute, caching, and messaging systems.
- 6+ years of experience integrating quant libraries, pricing models, and risk engines
Desired Experience:
- Experience building front-to-back platforms supporting sales & trading or prime financing organizations
- Experience running technology working groups, governance forums, and senior steering committees
- Knowledge of object-oriented analysis/design patterns, distributed systems, and large-scale architecture
- Understanding of complex margin/risk model integration for Prime Brokerage and Synthetic Financing
- Strong command of SDLC tooling: Git, Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory, uDeploy, etc.
- Proven track record delivering regulatory or operational risk projects under tight timelines
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex risk/margin workflows to senior stakeholders
- Experience with regulatory margining (e.g., Basel, SEC/FINRA rules)
- Understanding of risk methodologies (e.g., VaR, stress tests, Greeks, exposure measures)
- Understanding of capital and liquidity calculations related to prime financing
Job Expectations
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position
- Position offers a hybrid work schedule
Locations
- 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
- 194 Wood Ave S, Iselin, New Jersey 08830
- 150 E 42nd St. New York, NY 10017
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