Job Purpose
ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a Risk Director to focus on developing, managing and delivering the IT Strategy for the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Help define the IT Strategy for the CRD business, build consensus with technology partners, and manage key strategic deliveries for the business
- Work with the Atlanta Technology Team to migrate key services to the central Risk Platform, with the strategic aim that London produces specific end-user analytical tooling & reporting over these services
- Work with the local BI Tableau team to migrate core reporting to this infrastructure
- Work closely with Risk Managers and Product owners to ensure that application solutions meet the business needs, with frequent agile releases to end users
- Work with the existing London team to create, maintain and support existing End User Developed Applications (EUDA); support is ordinarily limited to office hours
- Create new Rapid Application Development (RAD) tooling for front line Risk Management, building reliable applications which will be used to manage emerging Member and Client Risks
- Develop across the technology stack; the team is currently working in Python & SQL
- Work across the local technology and business team to improve agile delivery and constantly find improvements to SDLC
Knowledge and Experience
- Proven development skills in Python and SQL at a similar organization, with a minimum of 4 years of commercial development experience as part of an agile team
- Ability to build and develop technology consensus across multiple teams, ensuring short and long term goals are aligned and delivered against
- Experience with trading, clearing, fund management or a related industry highly preferred
- Understanding of iterative development methodologies such as Agile or Kanban
- Able to work in geographically spread teams, building strong relationships with colleagues in different locations
- Confident in understanding business processes and analytics, and able to translate requirements into solid, testable technical solutions
- Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment where business demands rightly change due to market moves or regulatory needs
- Data management experience obtained in a Financial Organisation or Consultancy working in Finance, where you have experience in embedding the importance of data modelling and management within the culture of an organization would be desirable
- Knowledge and experience of delivery solutions in Javascript would be beneficial
- Proven organizational skills with strong commitment to customer service and product delivery
- Prior experience of risk systems is desirable, with an understanding of risk management concepts including one or more of back testing, stress testing, VaR, risk metrics or default management
- Knowledge of financial derivatives products across multiple asset classes would be beneficial
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical skills
- Detail oriented, results-driven and self-motivated
