IT & Software

Swaps Trading Application - Technical Lead (Senior Vice President)

Jefferies Financial Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you lead the development and support of Jefferies’ Global Equity Swaps System, blending hands-on engineering with domain expertise in Synthetic Prime, Portfolio Swaps, and Total Return Swaps. You will partner with front-office traders, operations, and middle office in a fast-paced trading environment to deliver scalable, low-latency trading systems and robust lifecycle processing. You’ll drive modernization while maintaining core systems and collaborating across regions. This is a chance to shape critical equity swap infrastructure and impact trading workflows at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Architect and implement a scalable, low-latency equity swap trading and lifecycle system
  • Lead technical design and re-platforming efforts using best-of-breed technologies
  • Ensure robust trade processing and lifecycle events handling for swaps and hedge execution workflows
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across regions to gather and interpret business requirements
  • Manage full SDLC including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and production deployment
  • Coordinate with global teams on integration points
  • Maintain and evolve legacy systems while driving modernization initiatives
Key requirements
  • Strong experience with Swaps Trading
  • Strong experience with Swaps Lifecycle Management, Processing of Corporate Actions, Client Reporting, Regulatory reporting and Compliance frameworks
  • 10+ years of experience in capital markets, preferably in Synthetic Prime Business
  • 5+ years in a technical lead role
  • 10+ years of hands-on programming experience in C++/Java/C#, preferably server-side
  • Strong hands-on experience with low-latency systems, multi-threading, and real-time systems
  • Strong experience in scalable, microservices architecture
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written, to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a “can-do” attitude
  • C++/Java/C# server-side development
  • low-latency system design
  • multi-threading and real-time processing

Reference: WJ-747_31052747

Apply now

Continue on the employer's official application - the same link they use for every candidate.

More jobs

This role is listed on GigBlows for discovery and search. Hiring decisions and applications are handled by the employer or their chosen application system.