Senior Technology Lead, XVA Data Engineering & AI Enablement - SVP

Description

The Markets Technology XVA group is hiring a Senior Vice President (SVP) to lead technology for XVA and AI enablement.

You will set the target architecture for the cross-asset XVA valuation, risk and stress testing platforms, covering CVA, DVA, FVA, MVA and KVA.

The work modernizes high-volume pricing and risk calculation pipelines using distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, OpenShift), microservices and AI/LLM-based engineering tools.

You will connect quantitative computing with enterprise application design, bring agentic AI, multi-agent systems and MLOps into the software lifecycle, and move legacy systems to real-time valuation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year architecture for the global XVA platform so it is modular, horizontally scalable, fault tolerant and very low latency.
• Design high-throughput distributed caching, Apache Kafka messaging and polyglot persistence (MongoDB, relational and vector stores) that can handle large intra-day risk simulations.
• Make the final technical calls on frameworks, API contracts, component boundaries and cloud-native migration on AWS, GCP and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Stay hands-on in Java / Spring Boot and Python, and set standards for engineering quality, clean design patterns and automated CI/CD.
• Build and deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic AI systems for pricing workflows, trade lifecycle reconciliation and stress test scenario generation.
• Roll out AI across engineering pods, including LLM coding assistants, automated test generation, semantic code search and architecture review agents, with the aim of doubling engineering velocity.
• Use generative AI and code-reasoning models to reverse-engineer, refactor and move monolithic legacy calculation engines onto modular microservices.
• Set up end-to-end MLOps pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, MLflow) covering model tracking, validation, deployment, fairness and interpretability, in line with model governance and ethical AI policy.
• Lead delivery of cross-asset XVA technology programs, including moving CVA and XVA stress testing engines to the target framework.
• Be the main technical partner for quants, financial engineers, trading desks and risk officers, turning models (SIMM, VaR, Greeks, Monte Carlo simulations) into production software.
• Run cross-functional pods using scaled Agile, handling technical debt, milestones, release planning and resourcing across geographically spread teams.
• Make sure solutions meet Basel III/IV, FRTB, Dodd-Frank and other global rules for market risk and counterparty valuation.
• Keep data integrity, cybersecurity, audit readiness, disaster recovery (HA/DR) and operational resiliency at the highest standard on tier-1 production systems.
• Weigh risk in technical and business decisions to protect the firm's reputation and client assets.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture and technical leadership within institutional financial services, tier-1 investment banks, hedge funds or high-scale technology firms.
• 4+ years in a senior leadership or lead architect role, guiding high-performing teams spread across locations.
• A record of delivering large enterprise digital transformations and legacy-to-cloud modernization programs.
• Deep Java skills (Spring Boot, Core Java, concurrency) and Python skills (AsyncIO, NumPy, Pandas).
• Proven experience designing event-driven architectures, distributed data fabrics, caching systems (Hazelcast, Redis, Apache Ignite) and streaming with Apache Kafka.

Conditions

Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

Base salary range is $176,720.00 - $265,080.00.

The posting closes on Oct 14, 2026.

Automated tools, including AI, are used only to match skills to roles, and all hiring decisions are made and checked by people.

Benefits

• Possible discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life, accident and disability insurance, and wellness programs.
• Paid vacation, sick leave and paid holidays.
• Offerings vary by jurisdiction, job level and date of hire; the company's benefits information gives the details.