Risk Development Lead

Lithe Consulting Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global trading and investment firm is seeking a Pricing and Risk Development Lead to oversee the engineering and architecture of its pricing and market risk platform. The ideal candidate has 10-15 years of experience in pricing, risk, or quantitative development in trading, alongside strong technical leadership skills. This role combines hands-on technical work with strategic oversight, ensuring the delivery of reliable and scalable solutions to support trading operations. Competitive compensation and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in pricing, risk, or quantitative development within trading.
• At least five years leading technical or quantitative teams.
• Track record of delivering enterprise-grade analytics systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of bespoke pricing and risk engines.
• Manage a global team covering pricing models calibration.
• Define and deliver the strategic technology roadmap.

Skills

Python

AWS

Risk and pricing computations

High-performance pricing/risk engines

Cloud-native architectures

Quantitative analysis

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics

Project Management qualification preferred

Job description

Pricing and Risk Development Lead Trading Technology

Location : London

Function : Trading Technology / Pricing & Risk Systems

Reports To : Head of Development Trading Technology

Type : Full-Time Permanent (onsite)

This global trading and investment firm is a major player in physical and financial commodities with a strong presence across oil power gas and related derivatives markets. It operates at scale across the worlds major markets combining quantitative rigour with data-driven decision-making. The environment is fast-paced technology-led and focused on constant innovation in analytics and trading systems.

Overview

The Pricing and Risk Development Lead will be responsible for the engineering and architecture of the firms pricing and market risk platform. The role leads a distributed team of quantitative and risk developers ensuring the delivery of performant reliable and scalable analytics solutions used daily by trading and risk management teams. It combines hands‑on technical leadership with architectural oversight across the pricing library risk engines and data integration layers.

This position suits a technically strong business‑aware engineer who can bridge quantitative modelling large‑scale system design and production reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of bespoke pricing and risk engines ensuring modularity, scalability and performance.
• Manage a global team covering pricing models calibration and real‑time risk computation.
• Define and deliver the strategic technology roadmap aligned with business and quantitative priorities.
• Oversee integrations between pricing models, market data and risk / P&L analytics pipelines.
• Drive engineering standards across testing, CI/CD and automation using Python and AWS‑native components.
• Collaborate with Quant, Research, Risk and Trading to ensure model accuracy, auditability and production resilience.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to quant and risk developers ensuring consistency in design documentation and code quality.

Technical & Quantitative Skills

• Deep expertise in Python for large‑scale numerical and analytical systems.
• Strong understanding of risk and pricing computations (VaR, Greeks, sensitivities, stress testing).
• Proven experience building or maintaining high‑performance pricing / risk engines in production.
• Knowledge of cloud‑native architectures (AWS ECS, Lambda, EKS / Kubernetes) and distributed computation.
• Solid grasp of derivatives pricing, volatility calibration and Monte‑Carlo or analytical models.
• Familiarity with C, C# or Java for integration with legacy or high‑performance modules is advantageous.

Leadership & Experience

• 10‑15 years of experience in pricing, risk or quantitative development within trading or investment environments.
• At least five years leading technical or quantitative teams.
• Track record of delivering enterprise‑grade analytics systems supporting front‑office trading.
• Strong communicator able to translate complex technical topics to senior stakeholders and steer technical discussions.
• Background in commodities is highly desirable; multi‑asset experience (equities, FX, credit) a plus.

Education

Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related quantitative discipline.

Why This Role Matters

This role shapes the next generation of pricing and risk architecture supporting global trading activity. Its a key leadership post for someone who wants to combine deep technical execution with strategic impact ensuring the firms analytical foundations remain robust, efficient and ahead of the market.

Required Skills

• Python
• AWS

Required Education

Project Management qualification preferred, IPD certification.