VP - Senior Risk Developer - Quant Analytics

RBC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Greater London is looking for a dedicated C++ Developer to develop and maintain critical libraries for risk management. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams to enhance functionality within a dynamic environment, contributing to ongoing improvements in risk analytics. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in C++ (C++14 or later) and Python, alongside a solid understanding of financial instruments. This full-time position offers a balanced work approach with multiple in-office days per week.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with C++ (ideally to C++14 or beyond) and Python.
• Knowledge of financial instruments, risk measures, and methodologies.
• Ability to analyze complex data and interpret risk requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain C++ libraries for risk management.
• Maintain CI infrastructure for library development and publishing.
• Develop new features and ensure correctness in library functionality.

Skills

C++

Python

DevOps

Data analysis

Financial instruments knowledge

Tools

git

docker

Visual C++

CI systems

Job description

What is the opportunity?

You will develop and maintain C++ libraries, which form part of a market risk management system (the “Risk Modernization” or “Risk Mod” program). Risk Mod provides a uniform risk interface across diverse trading desks, and in particular, allows the bank’s Group Risk function to define and execute standardised risk measures across those trading desks.

Your focus will be the libraries that i) generate instructions for market data shocks/pricing and, ii) calculate risk measures from the scenario outputs, and maintaining the DevOps engineering infrastructure used to build the libraries.

With an understanding of the full Risk Mod pipeline and the role of the Expansion and Recomposition components within it, you will maintain and extend the functionality of these libraries.

You will also administer and maintain the technological infrastructure used to build and publish the libraries and respond to ongoing DevOps requirements.

This position is full time and will require you to work a minimum of 4 days in the office per week with the option to work one day from home.

What will you do?

• Develop an understanding of the Risk Mod system as a whole, and the role of the libraries within that system.
• Maintain the CI infrastructure used to build and publish the libraries.
• Respond to ongoing DevOps updates and requirements.
• Develop new features and functionality in C++ within the libraries, maintain existing functionality, and diagnose and resolve problems arising within the system.
• Develop tests, and understand the critical importance of maintaining correctness and backward compatibility when modifying the library.
• Develop an understanding of the risk measures calculated within Risk Mod, which may include Greeks/sensitivities, market data scenarios such as ladders and grids, and ad hoc/full reveal scenarios for different businesses.
• Develop tools to assist in the execution and analysis of risk measures, and to simulate the Risk Mod pipeline as a whole.
• Explain library functionality to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Document functionality and working practices; make functionality and processes transparent to others.
• Liaise with direct colleagues and other teams including development teams, project managers, risk system users and DevOps/Change Management teams.
• Embrace new development and productivity practices and initiatives (e.g. CoPilot) both in development/testing and in other areas (e.g. documentation).

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Ability to analyze complex data, documents and workflows, understand risk requirements, and interpret results.
• Strong awareness of and interest in diverse software technologies, and in DevOps and software engineering. Must be comfortable with both Windows and Linux, willing to learn RBC technology infrastructure and manage and take ownership of ongoing DevOps administration, tasks and new requirements.
• Knowledge of financial instruments (primarily derivatives products), risk measures (e.g. sensitivities and scenarios) and risk calculation methodologies (e.g. Finite-Difference calculations) across different trading desks.
• C++ (ideally to C++14 or beyond) and Python. Experience of development on Windows (Visual C++) and Unix/Linux. Experience of git source control, docker, continuous integration and testing systems and build scripting.
• Strong understanding of financial markets and instruments: Knowledge of various asset classes, derivatives products and risk measures.
• Risk management expertise: Familiarity with risk management frameworks, methodologies, and tools.

Nice-to-have

• Ideal but not essential – Java, JSON parsing/processing.
• Experience with modern development/productivity tools such as GitHub Co-Pilot.
• An interest in presenting complex functionality and processes in intuitive ways, e.g. using graphical representations.

What is in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best – progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team
• A world‑class training program in financial services

Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation and grow professionally helps to bring our purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.