Senior Credit Risk Platform Lead

Trafigura Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is looking for a Senior Risk Engineer to lead the development and operation of credit risk modeling platforms. The candidate will influence the firm's approach to managing counterparty credit exposure while ensuring robust risk controls. Essential skills include advanced Python development and strong database knowledge, particularly with ClickHouse, alongside experience leading technical teams. This role offers a chance to work in a fast-paced trading environment with continuous deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Proven track record running credit modeling platforms in a financial services environment.
• Strong expertise in credit risk metrics: principal credit risk, EPE, PFE, and XVA modeling.
• Hands-on experience with high-frequency deployment practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and operation of credit risk modeling platforms.
• Design and maintain credit modeling platforms supporting principal credit risk.
• Build and lead a team of engineers in Risk technology.

Skills

Credit risk metrics expertise

Advanced Python development

GitOps tooling experience

SQL and NoSQL database skills

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab

ArgoCD

Job description

A leading financial services firm in London is looking for a Senior Risk Engineer to lead the development and operation of credit risk modeling platforms. The candidate will influence the firm's approach to managing counterparty credit exposure while ensuring robust risk controls. Essential skills include advanced Python development and strong database knowledge, particularly with ClickHouse, alongside experience leading technical teams. This role offers a chance to work in a fast-paced trading environment with continuous deployment practices.