Python Engineer
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Location
London, England
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary/Rate:
£65000.00 - £85000.00 per annum + Pension, Bonus
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Contact:
Jack Waller
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Contact email:
jwaller@veqnuis.com
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Salary high:
85000
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Salary low:
65000
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Job ref:
BBBH13646_1590739360
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Published:
8 months ago
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Expiry date:
2020-06-28
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Startdate:
ASAP
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Consultant:
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**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.
