Software Development Manager

In this role you lead the CDSClear Clearing Platform engineering, delivering high-quality trading, clearing and reporting capabilities. You’ll manage a London-based team and collaborate with Risk, QA and IT Support to drive end-to-end solutions. You will champion continuous improvement, apply automation and AI tooling to accelerate delivery, and partner with business stakeholders to shape next-stage growth. This is an opportunity to influence critical market infrastructure within a global, innovation-driven organisation.

• hybrid on prem / cloud environment
• flexible, hybrid work model
• career development and international opportunities
• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days

• Development management of Trade Management Engineering and related functions
• Lead the engineering of CDSClear’s clearing platform (external connectivity, trade registration, lifecycle, reporting)
• People leader for the London team
• Collaborate with Risk Development, QA, IT Support and other colleagues to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Engage with projects across full SDLC ensuring high-quality production delivery
• Drive Continuous Improvement across the IT stack to reduce defects and modernise the platform
• Stakeholder face-off with Business Transformation, Product, Risk, Operations, Customer Success, Engineering Architecture, Compliance and Second Line Risk
• Manage third-line production and test system support

• System design knowledge applicable to Derivative Trade Capture or Front‑to‑Back processing systems
• Ability to lead all aspects of external connectivity and protocol implementation (FpML workflows)
• Knowledge of trade lifecycle, data quality controls, retention strategies, and reporting solutions for Members, Clients and Regulators
• Leadership experience coaching and developing engineering staff
• Engineering of a Java / Oracle technology stack in Financial Services
• Appreciation of DevOps tools such as GitLab, Ansible, Terraform and Helm
• Strong emphasis on automated testing tooling
• Solid understanding of Engineering Principles and Industry Good Practice in Financial Markets Infrastructure
• Delivery management of multi-person, multi-month initiatives aligned with business plans
• Ability to translate a system improvement vision into iterative, multi-year execution
• Strong verbal and written English skills
• Desirable: knowledge of Credit Derivative Trade Capture and Life-cycling; Derivative Clearing; AWS Cloud Architecture
• Desirable: knowledge of market risk reporting

• leadership and people management
• stakeholder communication
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Java
• Oracle
• Derivatives / Trade Capture knowledge