Hybrid Derivatives Platform Lead - Java & Low-Latency

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

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.