Senior Lead Software Engineer - xVA & Cloud Architecture

Lorien

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Lorien seeks an experienced Senior/Lead Software Engineer to join a strategic xVA technology team responsible for pricing, counterparty credit risk, and regulatory capital calculations across global derivatives portfolios.

The role combines 50% hands-on coding with 50% managerial duties, offering technical leadership, architecture design, and mentorship across stakeholders in Front Office, Risk, Finance, and Trading. Strong Java, Spring, and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

Strong Java development background within enterprise-scale environments.
Expertise in Spring, Hibernate, JPA and REST APIs.
Experience across both monolithic and microservices architectures.
Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills.
Distributed systems design, performance optimisation and scalability.
Technical leadership, architecture design and mentoring responsibilities.
Experience partnering with Front Office, Risk, Finance or Trading stakeholders.
Cloud exposure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
CI/CD, automation and platform modernisation experience.
xVA knowledge including CVA, FVA, KVA and MVA.
Regulatory capital and margin frameworks (SA-CVA, BA-CVA, SIMM).
JMS, TIBCO EMS or event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute to pricing, counterparty credit risk and regulatory capital calculations.
Balance 50% hands-on coding with 50% managerial responsibilities.
Collaborate with Front Office, Risk, Finance or Trading stakeholders.
Design and implement scalable architectures across monolithic and microservices platforms.