Software Development Manager

London Stock Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CDSClear in London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers responsible for the Clearing Platform, focusing on reliability, scalability and rapid delivery in financial markets infrastructure. You will guide development of market connectivity, trade lifecycle and reporting, partner with Risk and QA, and drive automation and AI tooling to accelerate improvements.

The role requires strong leadership, communications, and a vision for multi-year system evolution within a

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of engineering teams in financial markets infrastructure.
• Experience building Java/Oracle based platforms.
• Strong English communication.
• Experience with DevOps and automation tooling.
• Knowledge of FpML workflows and trade processing is preferred.
• AWS cloud architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage development of CDSClear’s Clearing Platform and lead London-based Engineers.
• Oversee market connectivity, trade registration, lifecycle and reporting components.
• Collaborate with Risk, QA, IT Support and Stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Lead Continuous Improvement across the IT stack and drive production delivery.
• Engage with Stakeholders in Business Transformation, Product and Compliance to design solutions.
• Provide third-line support for Production and Test systems.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java/Oracle stack

DevOps tooling

Team coaching

Technical strategy

English communication

Tools

GitLab

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to learn and make a difference in financial markets infrastructure? We’re looking for passionate technologists to help us lead the way.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a highly skilled Engineering Manager to manage development efforts for CDSClear’s Clearing Platform and lead a team of Engineers based in London
• In this role, you will manage the development of software components handling market connectivity, trade registration, trade life‑cycling and reporting
• You will work closely the broader development team covering Risk and External Portal components as well the QA and IT Support areas
• The role provides an opportunity to partner with the CDSClear business stakeholders to take the platform and business through the next stage of business development
• We would like you to leverage automation and new innovations in AI tooling to enhance quality and time‑to‑market
• Development Management of Trade Management Engineering and related functions
• Lead the engineering of CDSClear’s clearing platform with functions including external market connectivity, trade registration, life‑cycling and reporting
• People Leader with direct management responsibility of London based team members
• Collaborate with Risk Development, QA, IT Support and other colleagues to deliver high quality end‑to‑end solutions
• Engage with projects during full SDLC and take ownership for delivery of high quality solutions through to production
• Lead Continuous Improvement across the IT stack to address defects, improve delivery productivity and iteratively modernise the overall platform
• Face‑off to Stakeholders – Business Transformation, Product, Risk, Operations, Customer Success Management, Engineering Architecture, Compliance and Second Line Risk, - to understand business requirements, design solutions and deliver high impact production change
• Manage third‑line support of Production and Test systems

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Engineering Principles and Industry Good Practice applicable to Financial Markets Infrastructure
• Engineering of a Java / Oracle technology stack in a Financial Services environment
• Able to develop a vision for system improvement to be executed in iterations over multiple years
• Appreciation of DevOps tools and technologies such as GitLab, Ansible, Terraform and Helm
• Lead, coached and developed Engineering staff in business aligned teams
• Demonstrated ability to maximise automated test tooling
• Strong verbal and written English skills
• System design knowledge applicable to Derivative Trade Capture or Front‑to‑Back processing systems or similar. Will need to be able to lead all aspects of the engineering of external connectivity and protocol implementation (FpML workflows), trade life‑cycling functions, data quality controls, retention strategies and Member, Client and Regulatory reporting solutions
• Delivery management of multi‑person and multi‑month initiatives following plans agreed with business stakeholders
• Knowledge of Credit Derivative Trade Capture and Life‑cycling as well as knowledge of Derivative Clearing
• Embraced AI development tools in a team environment to successfully accelerate development and/or improve quality of output
• AWS Cloud Architecture experience
• Knowledge of market risk reporting will be useful