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Salary: £90,000 - 115,000 per year
Requirements: Strong commercial experience developing enterprise applications in Python.Experience designing and building APIs and service-oriented architectures.Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and containerised deployments.Knowledge of job orchestration, workflow engines and message queues.Strong SQL and data integration experience.Experience building highly available, production-grade systems.Understanding of monitoring, observability and operational support.Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.Desirable: experience with risk systems, portfolio analytics or financial services platforms.Desirable: experience with large-scale batch processing or calculation-heavy environments.Desirable: knowledge of model governance, version control and auditable execution frameworks.Desirable: experience leading engineering teams or mentoring technical colleagues. Responsibilities: Design, build and operate core platform services supporting portfolio analytics, risk calculations and analytical workloads.Develop scalable Python-based services and APIs.Build cloud-native platforms for analytical and risk workloads.Develop orchestration frameworks for batch and on-demand calculations.Manage containerised environments and distributed compute services.Implement monitoring, observability and operational tooling.Build resilient services with fault tolerance, recovery and retry capabilities.Create CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.Embed security, governance and auditability throughout the platform.Collaborate with model developers to productionise analytical solutions.Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor colleagues.Work with Quantitative Developers, Data Engineers and Technology leaders to develop the middle tier connecting data, models and business applications, enabling complex calculations to run securely, reliably and at scale. Technologies: AWSAzureCI/CDCloudDockerGCPSupportKubernetesPythonSQLSecurityEmbedded More:
We are partnering with a leading UK organisation investing heavily in its technology landscape as part of a strategic transformation programme. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer/Manager to help build the next generation of risk and analytical services that support investment decision-making across the business. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership and offers the opportunity to shape architectural direction, engineering standards and the foundations of a business-critical analytics platform. The work involves complex platform challenges where reliability, performance and engineering excellence are essential, with direct impact on investment and risk management activities. The position is based in London with hybrid working and offers a competitive salary plus excellent benefits.
last updated 41 week of 2026