Senior Risk Platform Engineer - Cloud, Python & Snowflake

LevelUP HCS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

LevelUP HCS is seeking a hands-on Senior Developer to build and operate a scalable, AWS-based risk platform. The role focuses on Python development with Snowflake data, aiming for high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will work on cross-asset risk reporting, market data integration, and distributed computation, collaborating with IT teams to ensure end-to-end risk delivery and supporting an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of development experience in Python and C# .NET.
• Experience building pricing and risk management systems.
• Understanding of VAR, PNL, and risk metrics (delta, gamma, vega, etc.).
• Knowledge of market data (curves, surfaces, correlations).
• Familiar with CI/CD, testing (pytest), and observability tools.
• Strong distributed computing fundamentals and performance mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support scalable Python-based risk engines with Snowflake data.
• Optimize risk generation to deliver accurate results quickly.
• Improve distributed computation with efficient data structures and algorithms.
• Reconcile results with legacy risk systems and fix discrepancies.
• Investigate pricing and risk issues reported by risk management.
• Collaborate with internal IT teams for end-to-end risk delivery.
• Participate in an on-call support rota.

Skills

Python

C# .NET

Distributed computing

CI/CD

Unit testing (pytest)

Risk management systems

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Snowflake SQL

AWS (EC2, S3)

Airflow/MWAA

Kubernetes / EKS / Lambda

Job description

LevelUP HCS is seeking a hands-on Senior Developer to build and operate a scalable, AWS-based risk platform. The role focuses on Python development with Snowflake data, aiming for high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will work on cross-asset risk reporting, market data integration, and distributed computation, collaborating with IT teams to ensure end-to-end risk delivery and supporting an on-call rotation.