Python Developer - Investment Banking

We are looking for a hands-on Python developer to join a Global Investment Bank - Dynamic Languages team. This team is responsible for the health of the internal Python, Perl and R ecosystems and ensuring the continued success of the tens of thousands of Python, Perl and R users.

Primary responsibilities:
The candidate will be working with a global team of passionate programming-language subject matter experts, as well as developers, data scientists and technical leads across the entire firm. They will be responsible for devising common language/framework usage blueprints, bringing in industry-standard development tools as well as engineering internal tools and libraries where necessary. In particular, we are looking for a candidate who is willing to become the firm's primary point-of-contact for our R language user community, which is predominantly comprised of data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists and business analysts. The interactions will involve helping them set up and troubleshoot their development environments, evaluate and onboard 3rd party libraries, and author documentation. The candidate will also author tooling and automation to make this experience as productive and low-touch as possible.

Required Skills & Qualifications:
• Core Python development
• Prior R experience (or willingness to learn on the job)
• Understanding of common development patterns such as IDE usage and interactive notebooks (e.g. Jupyter)
• Familiarity with the enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with Linux
• Good communication/organisation skills
• Prior track record of leading technical delivery at feature level and/or serving as a key escalation point of contact
Skills desired:
• Prior experience with OCI containerisation tools/platforms (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
• High-level understanding of Windows development

Location:
Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months initially, multi year programme
IR35: Inside
Rate: Approx £550 plus NI and Pension Contributions (£650 total)

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates