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Job Description

Global Head of Front Office Application Engineering | London | 4 Days in Office | Permanent

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Industry: Commodity Trading

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Location: London

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Job Type: Permanent

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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.

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Responsibilities

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\n Lead the global Front Office Application Engineering team across 4 locations.

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Own all front-office trading systems, including pricing, execution, risk, P&L and trader UIs.

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Act as the senior technology partner to Gas and Power trading desks.

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Ensure platforms are low-latency, resilient and scalable for real-time trading.

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Drive engineering standards across architecture, DevOps, CI/CD and AWS.

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Balance platform stability with innovation, including analytics and AI-driven tools.

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Required Experience

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\n 12-15+ years in engineering leadership within trading, commodities, energy or capital markets.

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Proven experience running front-office application teams supporting live trading desks.

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Strong technical background in Java, React, APIs, real-time data and AWS.

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Experience delivering high-performance, low-latency trading platforms.

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Confident working directly with traders, quants and senior commercial stakeholders.

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