Global Head of Front Office Application Engineering | London | 4 Days in Office | Permanent
Industry: Commodity Trading
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent
Our client, a leading global commodities trading firm, is hiring a Global Head of Front Office Application Engineering to lead the technology powering its gas, power and physical trading desks. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role owning the design, delivery and performance of front-office trading platforms, including pricing, execution, risk and physical trading systems. You will lead a globally distributed engineering team while partnering directly with traders and quants to deliver low-latency, high-impact trading solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global Front Office Application Engineering team across 4 locations.
- Own all front-office trading systems, including pricing, execution, risk, P&L and trader UIs.
- Act as the senior technology partner to Gas and Power trading desks.
- Ensure platforms are low-latency, resilient and scalable for real-time trading.
- Drive engineering standards across architecture, DevOps, CI/CD and AWS.
- Balance platform stability with innovation, including analytics and AI-driven tools.
Required Experience
- 12-15+ years in engineering leadership within trading, commodities, energy or capital markets.
- Proven experience running front-office application teams supporting live trading desks.
- Strong technical background in Java, React, APIs, real-time data and AWS.
- Experience delivering high-performance, low-latency trading platforms.
- Confident working directly with traders, quants and senior commercial stakeholders.
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