Principal Risk Engineer

Cititec; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 124,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Cititec partners with a global commodities trading company in London seeking a Principal Risk Engineer for a 12-month contract. Hybrid location in London with strong leadership responsibilities across CTRM and risk platforms.

You will guide delivery, onboarding of CTRMs, and lead a small tech team while collaborating with trading, risk and technology stakeholders to enable scalable, real-time risk capabilities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within commodities trading, financial markets, CTRM or risk technology.
• Strong understanding of trading workflows, trade lifecycle and market risk.
• Proven experience implementing, integrating or onboarding complex CTRM or risk platforms.
• Strong technical background with experience across Python, APIs, databases, data platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience leading, mentoring or managing technical teams.
• Ability to operate between detailed technical discussions and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of scalable, high-performance technology environments.
• Experience working closely with trading, risk and technology teams.
• Exposure to real-time risk, cloud-native architecture or high-performance data processing would be beneficial.
• Experience with technologies such as Python, C++, ClickHouse or Iceberg would be advantageous.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, pragmatic approach.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery and evolution of CTRM and risk technology capabilities.
• Lead onboarding, integration and implementation of new CTRMs and related platforms.
• Provide senior technical leadership across risk technology initiatives.
• Lead and develop a small team of technology professionals.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
• Collaborate with trading, risk, technology and business stakeholders.
• Drive improvements across platform scalability, automation, reliability and performance.
• Contribute to real-time risk and next-generation risk technology evolution.
• Help define the technology roadmap bridging existing CTRM capabilities with future platforms.
• Work with engineers and architects across Python, C++, data and cloud technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

High-performance environments

Tools

Python

C++

APIs

Databases

Data platforms

Distributed systems

Job description

Principal Risk Engineer | 12-month initial contract (Outside IR35) | London

Location: London - Hybrid

Job type: Contract

Cititec has partnered with a leading global commodities trading company, who are looking to bring a Principal Risk Engineer into their London team.

This is a senior technology leadership position within the Risk Technology function, with responsibility for the firm's risk technology landscape, playing an important part in the longer-term evolution towards a more real-time, automated and scalable risk platform, working closely with senior technology, trading and risk stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

• Own the delivery and evolution of critical CTRM and risk technology capabilities.
• Lead the onboarding, integration and implementation of new CTRMs and related platforms.
• Provide senior technical leadership across risk technology initiatives.
• Lead and develop a small team of highly capable technology professionals.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
• Collaborate closely with trading, risk, technology and business stakeholders.
• Drive improvements across platform scalability, automation, reliability and performance.
• Contribute to the evolution towards real-time risk and next-generation risk technology.
• Help define the technology roadmap and bridge existing CTRM capabilities with future-state platforms.
• Work closely with engineers and architects across Python, C++, data and cloud technologies.

Requirements:

• Significant experience within commodities trading, financial markets, CTRM or risk technology.
• Strong understanding of trading workflows, trade lifecycle and market risk.
• Proven experience implementing, integrating or onboarding complex CTRM or risk platforms.
• Strong technical background with experience across areas such as Python, APIs, databases, data platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience leading, mentoring or managing technical teams.
• Ability to operate comfortably between detailed technical discussions and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of scalable, high-performance technology environments.
• Experience working closely with trading, risk and technology teams.
• Exposure to real-time risk, cloud-native architecture or high-performance data processing would be beneficial.
• Experience with technologies such as Python, C++, ClickHouse or Iceberg would be advantageous.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, pragmatic approach.