Pricing & Risk Development Lead

Allstate Northern Ireland; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent trading firm in Manchester is looking for a Pricing & Risk Development Lead. This role will oversee the engineering strategy for the Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform, ensuring robust and scalable solutions. Ideal candidates will have around 10 years' experience in software development with a focus on pricing and risk technology in trading environments. This hybrid position offers a competitive salary of approximately £160k, with added benefits including bonuses and healthcare options.

Benefits

Bonus

Healthcare

Pension

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 years' experience in software development, pricing, or risk technology.
• Hands-on experience with Python or similar programming languages.
• Deep understanding of commodity trading and market risk concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering strategy and delivery of the global Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform.
• Engage with trading and risk teams to gather requirements and enhance platform.
• Ensure best-practice engineering standards in code and development lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Technical excellence

Python

Advisory skills

Tools

C#

Java

.NET

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A highly regarded global trading firm is offering the opportunity for a Pricing & Risk Development Lead that will take responsibility for driving the engineering and architectural direction of the firm's Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform, overseeing a global team of Quant Developers, Risk Developers, and Pricing Developers.

The Role

As the Pricing & Risk Development Lead, you will shape and evolve the technology ecosystem that underpins pricing, analytics, and market risk across a sophisticated commodities trading environment. You will provide both hands‑on leadership and strategic oversight, ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and aligned to the commercial and risk needs of the business. Working in a highly visible, consultative capacity, you will partner closely with traders, quants, product controllers, and senior risk stakeholders, steering technical delivery and ensuring solutions meet front‑office demands.

• Lead the engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery of the firm's global Pricing and Market Risk Technology platform.
• Oversee and mentor a distributed team of Quant, Risk, and Pricing Developers, ensuring consistent technical quality and alignment.
• Engage directly with trading, quantitative, and risk teams to gather requirements, prioritise enhancements, and drive platform development.
• Deliver and govern high‑quality code and technical solutions across Python, or alternatively C#, .NET, or Java.
• Ensure best‑practice engineering standards across testing, documentation, and development lifecycle processes.
• Shape long‑term platform architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with regulatory and business needs.
• Act as a senior technical authority, guiding decision‑making for pricing models, risk methodologies, and market data integration.
• Require approximately 10 years' experience within software development, pricing, or risk technology in a trading or capital markets environment.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Python (ideal), or other major development languages such as C#, .NET, or Java.
• Deep understanding of commodity trading, ideally across both financial derivatives and physical markets.
• Demonstrable leadership experience managing or guiding technical teams across multiple regions.
• Proven ability to operate in a consultative, stakeholder‑facing capacity, engaging front‑office, quants, and risk leaders.
• Strong grasp of pricing models, market risk concepts, and associated data flows.
• This is a hybrid position in London (3d/w) with a base salary around £160k, flexible depending on experience, and wider package including bonus, pension, healthcare and more.
• If you're driven by technical excellence, enjoy leading high‑performing teams, and want to make a tangible impact in a fast‑moving trading environment, this role offers the perfect platform to do so.
• Please apply for immediate consideration.

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