Head of Risk Engineering - Risk, Data Distribution, Finance

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Head of Risk Engineering - Risk, Data Distribution, Finance, Java, Cloud, AWS, Real Time, Financial Services
100% Remote

A Head of Engineering is urgently required by a World-renowned Financial Services business (headquartered in London), to head up their Risk Product Development function, working on a contractual basis for an initial period of 6 months.

Within this role you will partner with internal technology teams (leading multiple teams distributed globally), ensuring that the design & development of their products/services are fully aligned with the requirements/expectations of external and overall business strategy.

Having come from a hands-on background in Java, you will demonstrate a deep technical understanding of software engineering (both architecture and development), which coupled with knowledge of both Public Cloud and the financial services industry as a whole, will allow you to successfully lead/manage the ongoing development of the business's first call Risk solutions.

To be successful, you will meet the following requirements:
  • Strong Experience in management of globally distributed development teams adhering to agile methodologies and ensuring alignment to strategy and roadmaps.
  • Extensive background/working knowledge of developing applications in Java with understanding of programming styles, frameworks, design patterns and unit testing.
  • Accomplished technologist with previous success delivering cloud-native applications or products on one of the major vendor cloud platforms (Azure, Google, AWS)
  • Background in product and development life-cycles - across product definition, software development, production implementation and support operations. Robust experience applying best practice Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
  • A career within Financial Services, preferably within Risk and having worked on high performance, data-centric platforms.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experience Head of Engineering to lead the development of the next generation of Risk products for a truly 1st class financial institution.

Cornwallis Elt is an Employment Agency & Employment Business and has been listed 3 times in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 of the UKs fastest growing private companies, as well as in the Recruitment International Top 250, Top 50 in IT and the Recruiter Fast 50 & Hot 100 reports.
Start date
ASAP
Duration
initial 6 months
From
Cornwallis Elt Ltd
Published at
30.07.2021
Project ID:
2174447
Contract type
Freelance
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