Java team lead – Rates and Risk recruitment

Java team lead - Rates and Risk
(Java, Oracle, Spring, Hibernate, Velocity) LONDON
£100,000 - £120,000 basic + benefits + bonus
Technologies: Java 1.5, Oracle 11g, Spring, Hibernate, Velocity, Restful

Financial domain: Tier 1 Investment Bank

This is a VP-level role

This Tier 1 Investment Bank is looking for an experienced senior Java technical and team lead to lead a team and re-architect the bank's primary End of Day Risk system for the Rates business.

Working on an established system this is an opportunity for an experienced Java technologist with great Oracle skills and an establish career in investment banking to make a vertical move within the industry and establish themselves within the Rates business area. The brief is to orchestrate Fundamental re-architecture of this area's End of Day Risk. This is a hands on coding role.

They are looking for someone who is already a VP within an investment bank and can get a handle on the system and rationalise the architecture. The role will involve regular meetings with head traders, product control and Middle Office, and lots of interaction with the business. 

This is to lead both an onshore team and potentially an offshore team by the end of 2012 and it is therefore essential that the candidate have solid experience of leading both kinds of teams.

Methodology-wise this area use continuous integration extensively and are TDD practitioners. They are moving towards Agile but are not totally Agile and an evangelist would not really fit well within the team.

Must haves for this role:
1. Great Java and Oracle
2. People management
3. Rates knowledge

Key skills for the Java team lead - Rates and EOD Risk
- Java 1.5
- Oracle 11g
- Spring
- Hibernate
- Velocity
- Restful
- JSP and Java GUI skills helpful

Key responsibilities of the Java team lead - Rates and EOD Risk
- fundamentally re-architect the bank's primary End of Day Risk system for the Rates business
- lead a team