Software Developer, Trade Processing - Vice President

Software Developer, Trade Processing - Vice President

Job Type: Contract/Temporary

Location: London

Negotiable

Job Ref: BBBH38

Date Added: May 7th, 2026

Consultant: scott palmer

Location: London or Glasgow 50% office presence required The Candidate:

• Will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of a project from design, to deployment in production and post release supportability.
• Will ensure end-deliverables are clearly defined and communicated; ensure that stakeholders are kept informed of each deliverable's progress, issues and risks.
• Will pro-actively manage risk & issues - escalating where appropriate - ensuring delivery progress is maintained.
• Will work in projects with an agile methodology delivering incremental deliverables that improve the business functionality whilst limiting risk to Production systems.
• Will work closely with the business, operations and development teams to design, deliver and implement future state architecture.
• Will partner with the architecture teams to ensure robust design and adherence to bank.
• Will design solutions that align technology roadmaps to business strategy and conduct high quality functional design, system, integration testing and UAT.
• Will work closely with Production Management APS to deliver a stable & reliable platform under all necessary controls.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

• 8+ years' experience in commercial software development.
• Strong core Java and backend engineering skills, with experience designing, building and maintaining reliable, scalable applications.
• Good SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
• Experience with test driven development, delivery automation and good software.
• Experience with message driven architectures and event driven systems would be.
• Experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams or Kafka Connect would also be beneficial.
• Experience working with applications deployed in Kubernetes environments would also be.
• Has experience working in Unix / Linux operation systems.
• Has experience working with SDLC tools: Jira, BitBucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc.
• Has experience working in a global team, helping others through pair programming and knowledge sharing and helping the team improve their development practices.
• Shows excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Has a can do attitude, can partner with others inside and outside of the development team to investigate issues, drive conversations to find and agree solutions and communicate those solutions to a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Will be able to partner with business, operations, developers, architects and infrastructure teams to help.
• Participate and involvement in shaping the future platform i.e. Design sessions.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.