Python Developer

This posting is for a developer to join the fast-growing European Investment Management IT team for my client. My client is currently rapidly expanding its European technology presence.

This role will work on leading technologies within a Microservice architecture, with the development stack including Python, Amazon Web Services (including AWS Analytics), Atlassian toolsets (Bamboo, Bitbucket), Cucumber automated testing and MATLAB.

This is a new team and will be Agile based and leverage a continuous delivery pipeline. The Team will work closely with my client's Investment Strategy Group. Their mission is to develop and deliver relevant and rigorous insights on economics, portfolio strategies and investor behaviour to improve investor outcomes. The group aims to lead the advancement on investment thinking and practice in the asset management industry.

The IT team will work towards the development and advancement of my client's proprietary model's platforms and help my client make them accessible to a wider audience and drive continuous improvement of my client's technology and data. One of the upcoming goals is modernising the models itself, building it in robust scalable way.

Candidates should be interested in a fast-paced group that builds, supports, and enhances global applications.

Key Technical Skills:

• Skilled in any OOP languages: Python, Java, or C++
• Experience and knowledge of classical data structure and computer algorithm
• Fundamental mathematical and quantitative skills: optimisation, data analysis.

Any of the below knowledge or experience would be advantageous:

• Experience in any quantitative, mathematical or data analytic projects: computer simulation, numeric computation, mathematical modelling, data analysis, statistical analysis
• Skilled in python programming with experience in data analytical library, e. g. Pandas, NumPy
• Experience or knowledge of basic optimisation methods: linear programming, convex or heuristic optimisations, use matrix, equations, or probability theory to solve math problems
• Experience in Matlab, R
• Code Management with GitHub or Bitbucket
• High Performance Computing
• SQL

Key Functional Skills:

• Focus on details, be critical on accuracy, passion with computer programming
• Ability to work autonomously
• Experience working in Agile
• Investment Management knowledge is preferable

Qualifications:

• Undergrad degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and, or any related discipline
• Proficiency in an object oriented or functional paradigm such Java, Python
• Investment Management Industry experience preferable, but not a pre-requisite.

If this role sparks your interest, and if you think you'd be a good fit for the position, please do contact mathew.leroux@robertwalters.com for a confidential conversation.