Risk Technology Lead

Description:

A leading global multi-strategy hedge fund is looking to hire a senior Risk Technology Lead into its London office.

This is a high-impact front-office engineering role focused on the evolution of a business-critical cross-asset risk platform supporting trading, portfolio construction, and real-time risk decision-making.

The role sits directly between Risk, Trading, Quant, and Engineering, with significant ownership over platform architecture, engineering direction, and delivery.

The firm is open to:

• senior hands-on risk engineers / architects

• technical leads

• experienced engineering managers who still enjoy being close to systems and design

Key areas include:

• Real-time risk analytics

• PnL & sensitivities

• Stress testing & scenario infrastructure

• Risk platform architecture

• High-performance Java systems

• Distributed risk infrastructure

• Cross-asset risk tooling

You will:

• Partner directly with PMs, traders, quants, and risk managers

• Drive architectural decisions across the risk stack

• Help shape the long-term evolution of the platform

• Remain technically involved in key engineering decisions and critical components

• Work within a lean, highly collaborative engineering culture with minimal bureaucracy

Ideal backgrounds include:

• Hedge funds

• Prop trading firms

• Tier 1 investment banks

• Electronic trading firms