Tokyo Jefferies

Job 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 Lead for our Tokyo 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
  • Act as a central point of contact and manage development and drive adoption of risk technologies within Asia region
  • Drive 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.
  • Oversee the delivery of projects aligned with regulatory requirements (e.g., Basel III, FRTB, CCAR).
  • Manage technical debt, prioritize backlogs, and ensure timely delivery of features and enhancements.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ 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
  • Bilingual in Japanese and English
  • Excellent 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

About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.



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