- Location
- Hong Kong
- Type
- Full-time
- Source
- Workday
Description
The Risk Technology group builds and supports a global risk platform enabling the Risk Management group to oversee all areas of risk across the Firm. The risk platform provides capabilities for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, reporting, and controlling exposures across market risk and credit risk.
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Risk Technology Consultant for our Hong Kong office to work closely with traders, risk managers, and quants to drive the build out of a global risk technology platform. The platform will support financial risk technology focused on market risk and counterparty credit risk. The role is key to the Risk Technology’s strategic expansion into Asia and will also contribute significantly to the global team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the development of scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that enable real-time risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with risk managers, quants, traders, and technology teams to implement technology solutions for risk management
- Support the development and adoption of risk technologies within Asia region
- Support the adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, test automation, and cloud-native development (AWS, Kubernetes, AirFlow, Snowflake).
- Ensure systems meet high standards of security, scalability, and performance, particularly in handling sensitive financial data.
- Contribute to the delivery of projects aligned with regulatory requirements
- Manage technical debt, prioritize backlogs, and ensure timely delivery of features and enhancements.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of project or product management experience within financial technology domain
- Deep understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
- Proficiency in Agile development process
- Software development experience in large scale application, ideally focused on financial risk technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong background in financial services, particularly in market risk, counterparty credit risk, or risk analytics.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is highly preferred.
- Experience working in global financial services firm
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
