Derivatives Development Lead

Sumitomo Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 84,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Paid leave

Private medical insurance

Life & disability insurance

Counselling services

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

SMBC Group in Dublin is seeking a Director-level Derivatives Development Lead to steer the engineering of high-performance Java applications powering Sales & Trading platforms. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence in a regulated banking environment.

You will lead teams across EMEA, balancing strategic direction with hands-on delivery, and collaborate with risk, quants, and DevOps to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent. Holding 15+ years’ relevant experience from Investment banking pricing or risk experience, including Front Office, Market/Credit Risk, risk sensitivities, and Front-to-Back processes.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.
• Extensive distributed systems experience, including multi-threaded and asynchronous applications.
• Strong hands-on Java, including streams, lambdas, concurrency APIs, JVM profiling and performance tuning.
• Algo-trading and low-latency experience, including lock-free and microsecond/sub-millisecond workloads.
• Experience with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and OpenShift.
• Extensive Kafka or event-processing/messaging experience.
• Strong TDD and Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Expert-level CI/CD experience across large, complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership to resolve critical technical challenges.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, promoting ownership and engineering excellence.
• Define Java engineering standards and drive adoption of modern Java practices.
• Provide deep expertise in concurrency and JVM performance, resolving complex engineering issues.
• Review critical code and complex implementations, driving quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Help shape architecture and engineering patterns for scalable distributed systems, microservices, and service-oriented architectures.
• Support the development of standards for service communication, resilience, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability.
• Help promote engineering quality and continuous improvement across platform teams.
• Help shape standards and architecture for event-driven systems, including Kafka and messaging platforms.
• Provide technical leadership across Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

High-performance computing

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

OpenShift

Kafka

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Kafka

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

Job description

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United by a sense of purpose towards our customers – to be a trusted partner for the long-term – and our universal banking platform in EMEA, SMBC Group has an international growth agenda and award-winning products, meaning we provide exciting opportunities to work on a diverse range of projects and initiatives. We deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers as well as investment banking and advisory services, and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets. Read on to find out how you could enhance your skills and gain valuable experience, by joining us to support our clients transition to a sustainable future.

Role Summary

This Director level Derivatives Development Lead helps lead the engineering of high-performance Java applications supporting Sales & Trading Business Platforms.

The role combines deep technical expertise and engineering leadership to deliver resilient, scalable, commercially aligned solutions.Requiring extensive expertise in Java, distributed systems, concurrency, microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-performance computing, translating complex requirements into strategic engineering solutions.

As a senior technical leader, the individual will help shape architecture and engineering direction, solve complex technical challenges, and support technology strategy, standards, and governance.

The role is strongly hands-on and autonomous, while mentoring senior engineers, supporting technology decisions, and driving technical excellence and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, influence senior stakeholders, and help shape the technology landscape in line with business priorities.

Providing senior engineering leadership for critical Sales & Trading platforms across EMEA, help shaping technology strategy, architecture, and delivery within a regulated banking environment.

Based in Dublin, leads and develops software engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement. Within a matrix structure, the role reports locally for people matters while aligning with London technology leadership on strategy, architecture, and delivery priorities.

You may also provide local line management for Business Platforms technology resources in Dublin, supporting growth of the Bank’s technology capability.

Works with senior business and technology stakeholders globally to promote engineering best practices and deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance solutions.

Collaborates across Development, Architecture, Infrastructure, Product, Business Analysis, and Operations, providing technical expertise to align teams and deliver complex cross-functional initiatives.

Operating across EMEA within a global organisation, engaging regional and global stakeholders. Leading complex, business-critical technology initiatives with varying regulatory visibility.

Partnering with development leads, technology managers, and teams across Risk, Quants, DevOps, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting.Aligning cross-functional and regional stakeholders on requirements, dependencies, and delivery.

Ensuring solutions align with technology standards, platform capabilities, and governance requirements. whilst Leading, coaching and developing theengineering teams, building a high-performance culture focused on consistent, high-quality delivery.

The anticipated salary range for this role is €84,000.00 – €158,000.00, with the final offer determined based on the candidate’s skills, experience, role scope, location, and relevant market factors. In addition to base salary, the role may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award and a competitive benefits package, including core benefits such as pension provision.

Position Description

Technical Leadership

• Help shape engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Guide complex designs, ensuring alignment with business needs and enterprise architecture.
• Provide hands‑on leadership to resolve critical technical challenges.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, promoting ownership and engineering excellence.
• Define Java engineering standards and drive adoption of modern Java practices.
• Provide deep expertise in concurrency and JVM performance, resolving complex engineering issues.
• Review critical code and complex implementations, driving quality, maintainability, and performance.

Distributed Systems & Microservices

• Help shape architecture and engineering patterns for scalable distributed systems, microservices, and service‑oriented architectures.
• Support the development of standards for service communication, resilience, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability.
• Help promote engineering quality and continuous improvement across platform teams.
• Help shape standards and architecture for event‑driven systems, including Kafka and messaging platforms.
• Support the delivery of robust, scalable, high‑performance event‑processing solutions.
• Define Java deployment strategy across containerised and cloud‑native environments.
• Provide technical leadership across Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Partner across Architecture, Infrastructure, Production, Security, and Engineering to drive platform modernisation and simplification.

Provide Level 3 support as required.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent. Holding 15+ years’ relevant experience from Investment banking pricing or risk experience, including Front Office, Market/Credit Risk, risk sensitivities, and Front‑to‑Back processes.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.
• Extensive distributed systems experience, including multi‑threaded and asynchronous applications.
• Strong hands‑on Java, including streams, lambdas, concurrency APIs, JVM profiling and performance tuning.
• Algo‑trading and low‑latency experience, including lock‑free and microsecond/sub‑millisecond workloads.
• Experience with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and OpenShift.
• Extensive Kafka or event‑processing/messaging experience.
• Strong TDD and Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Expert‑level CI/CD experience across large, complex systems.

Nice to have:

• Hands‑on experience with dynamic scalability; cloud deployment, container/Docker deployment, GRPC services, or cloud‑based services.
• Experience with Workflow/Scheduling/State management.

There will at times the need to balance project work, BAU and support tasks so utilising their time efficiently will be key

Customer Focus

Driving Change

Driving Results

Judgement and Decision Making

Strategic and Visionary

Trust and Integrity

What we offer

For all the expertise and experience you bring to help us make a difference, it’s only sustainable if we support you to build your career and be your best self so we offer competitive company benefits, centred around promoting positive well-bring and work-life balance. We also believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, where all team members perspectives and contributions are valued. Initiatives in place which promote a diverse and inclusive culture and healthy work life balance include hybrid working, Sport & Social Clubs and Diversity and Inclusion networks.

As an employee of SMBC you have access to a host of both useful and exciting benefit offerings. See below some of the benefits on offer to you:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Competitive paid leave days
• Benefits to support your physical wellbeing, including private medical insurance and life and invalidity insurance
• Various policies to support your mental wellbeing, including a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities and career progression opportunities

About SMBC

A trusted partner for the long term
United by a sense of purpose towards our customers - to be a trusted partner for the long-term - and our universal banking platform in EMEA, we deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers, including corporate, structured and trade finance, leveraged finance, loan market and treasury products. We can also provide investment banking and advisory services and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets.
Find out more about what we do and who we are at https://www.smbcgroup.com/emea/careers