Market Risk Technology Specialist

Santander

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Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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Oct 12, 2026

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About Santander

Santander is one of the world''s largest banks headquartered in Spain, providing retail, commercial, and investment banking services to individuals, small businesses, and large corporations in Europe, the Americas, and beyond. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

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TL;DR · Market Risk Technology Specialist

PolyPath Market Risk Technology Specialist (Java/Python) joins the Corporate & Investment Banking team to support pricing, valuation, and market risk activities within a capital markets environment. The role involves supporting and enhancing PolyPath platform capabilities while translating complex fixed income requirements into scalable technical solutions. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing risk processes such as sensitivities, stress testing, scenario analysis, VaR, and pricing workflows for structured products like Mortgage-Backed Securities and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations. The successful candidate will develop, troubleshoot, and integrate applications using Python and Java while managing data flows and production incidents. Key technical requirements include expert knowledge of PolyPath, proficiency in Java and Python, and experience with risk models, valuation tools, and pricing engines. This role solves critical market risk challenges by bridging the gap between front-office business needs and complex back-end technology infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Support and enhance PolyPath platform capabilities for pricing, valuation, trading, and market risk workflows.
  • Translate complex market risk and fixed income requirements into scalable technical solutions for business and technology teams.
  • Manage market risk processes including sensitivities, stress testing, scenario analysis, VaR, pricing, and valuation.
  • Develop, enhance, and troubleshoot applications, scripts, and integration components using Python and Java.
  • Support pricing pipelines, risk data flows, market data integration, and valuation processes within the PolyPath ecosystem.
  • Analyze system issues, performance bottlenecks, data discrepancies, and production incidents across risk systems.
  • Execute migration, modernization, and integration initiatives for legacy trading or risk systems into PolyPath architecture.
  • Improve platform stability through automation, monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue resolution.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience is required.
  • Expert-level knowledge of PolyPath is required.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and Java are required.
  • Solid understanding of fixed income products, pricing, valuation, and risk analytics is required.
  • Experience supporting risk models, valuation tools, pricing engines, or market risk platforms is required.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex system, data, and pricing issues across multiple technology platforms is required.
  • 10+ years of experience in banking, capital markets, financial technology, or market risk technology (preferred).
  • Experience working with front office, risk, finance, model validation, or quantitative teams (preferred).

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