**Python** **Asset Management** **Quant** **Front Office** **Developer** **Engineer**

Salary: £65,000-£85,000 + 40% bonus and 14% pension

Location: London

My client, a leading asset management company, are looking for a passionate Python technologist, preferably with a quant based background, to work within the Systematic Investments Technology team. The team support a growing quantitative investment business who currently have ~£28bn assets under management in this team alone.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest organisations within the industry and grow within a front office agile team.

What you'll do

• Be part of a business facing team with a high visibility
• Deliver a first class data and analytics platform to support investment decision making and quantitative research
• Refine the existing investment and research platform in response to business needs
• Work with the quants to adopt Python and transition the current systematic models over to the new platform
• Coach and develop more junior team members, ensuring that best practices and methodologies are followed

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Strong Python development experience, preferably in an enterprise environment
• Python library knowledge including packages such as pandas, numpy and numba
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database platforms
• A drive to deliver with an ability to own a piece of work from start to finish
• An understanding of data structures and common data transformation methodologies
• Able to work in a modern software engineering environment, using Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools including Scrum, git and CI/CD
• Able to deal credibly with business and technical users at all levels of the organisation

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Proficiency in the Linux environment
• Experience using Docker containers and preferably Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud, especially Azure
• A Computer Science and financial services background

If you feel you match the skillset above then please apply and I will be in contact within 24 hours.