Lead Developer (Full Stack, AI) UK, Remote-first | £55k-£65k

Remote-first | £55k-£65k

Rare opportunity to join a high growth team building cutting edge AI products in a fast moving, creative environment.

You’ll be part of a small, high impact team with the autonomy and pace of a scale up, where decisions are made quickly and your work has real visibility. At the same time, the business benefits from the backing, stability, and support of a larger, well established organisation, giving you the best of both worlds.

This is a hands on’ Lead role, managing a small team while owning delivery across full stack development, architecture, and deployment. You’ll play a key role in shaping how AI is embedded into real, production grade products, not just experimentation.

What you’ll be doing:

Leading 2 developers while staying close to the code
Designing, building, and scaling full stack applications
Owning system architecture, deployment, and engineering standards
Integrating AI features into products using modern APIs and data-driven approaches
Improving CI/CD, environments, and overall delivery capability

Tech environment - Not set in Stone

Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript (or similar)
Backend: Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django) (or similar)
APIs: REST, GraphQL (or similar)
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB (or similar)

AI / Data:
Experience integrating AI/ML features via APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic or similar)
Exposure to data pipelines, inference workflows, or retrieval-based systems (RAG, vector DBs or similar)

Cloud & DevOps:
AWS, Azure, or GCP
Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar)
Experience deploying and maintaining production systems is essential

What they’re looking for:

Strong full stack engineer with leadership experience
Proven track record delivering and deploying real products
Comfortable owning deployment and improving engineering standards
Clear communicator, able to work across technical and non-technical teams

This role isn’t for you if:

Your AI experience is limited to demos, courses, or side projects without production use
You’ve never deployed or maintained a live system end-to-end
You prefer purely frontend or backend work without full stack ownership
You’re not comfortable taking responsibility for delivery, not just contributing code
Communication with non-technical stakeholders isn’t something you enjoy

Small team, real ownership, exciting vision genuine impact.

If you’ve shipped products, can lead from the front, and want to build something meaningful in the AI space, Apply Now

No sponsorship available

Senior Java Developer

Business Unit: FTSE Russell - Index Platform
Company: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

About Us

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Java Engineer with AI proficiency to help build the next generation FTSE Russell Index Platform. This platform underpins the calculation and distribution of FTSE Russell’s global family of indexes and requires advanced engineering, high precision data processing, and deep collaboration across global teams.

This is a deeply technical role focused on designing, building, integrating, and operationalising modern software and AI driven capabilities across internal platforms and client facing products. You will work with innovative technologies, contribute to complex algorithmic design, and drive engineering excellence in a high performance, data intensive environment.

Key Responsibilities

Core Engineering & Platform Delivery

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Java and Python applications using modern engineering practices. Build / embed AI powered features into mission critical systems.

• Architect and enhance services that support largescale, performance critical index computations.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX, and engineering teams globally to deliver high quality products.

• Lead projects end-to-end through requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.

• Build and maintain automated test suites to ensure performance, scalability, and security.

• Diagnose production issues, identify root causes, and deliver Level 3 support and fixes.

• Conduct peer reviews, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.
• Support the organisation’s AI adoption journey. Develop and enhance intelligent solutions using LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and agentic AI frameworks.
• Establish engineering best practices for safe, scalable, traceable and production ready AI deployments across internal platforms and external product suites.
• Strong algorithms, data structures, problem solving skills, and ability to translate business problems into scalable solutions.
• Good command of coding standards and Strong understanding of both high level and low level software design
• Expertise in:
  • Core Java, Python
  • Building highly distributed, data intensive systems
  • Microservices, REST APIs
  • RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres)
  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitLab), DevOps automation
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • JVM profiling & performance optimisation
• Prior exposure to Level 3 production support.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience leading or mentoring a team of engineers.
• Experience within financial services or with financial market data.
• Familiarity with in-memory caching, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka.
• Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, JBehave, or Karate.
• Background as a Scrum Master or experience running Agile teams.

What We’re Looking For

A proactive, creative engineering leader who enjoys solving complex problems, working hands-on with modern technologies, and driving AI enabled innovation. If you’re passionate about building resilient, intelligent, data intensive systems that power global financial markets, we’d love to hear from you.

Career Stage:
Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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About Us

At Ten10, we help organisations accelerate digital transformation by combining deep technical expertise with a passion for innovation. We partner with leading enterprises to design and deliver intelligent automation and low-code solutions that unlock efficiency, improve experiences, and enable scalability.

We believe in empowering our clients and colleagues - whether thats modernising processes with AI-driven automation or mentoring the next generation of talent through our academy.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Intelligent Automation & Low-Code Developer with a strong focus on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot technologies.

Youll play an important role in designing, developing, and delivering innovative automation and low-code solutions as part of a collaborative delivery team. You will contribute to client engagements, support junior team members, and work closely with Lead Consultants and Architects to deliver high-quality outcomes.

This is a hands-on technical role that also requires strong communication skills, stakeholder engagement experience, and the ability to contribute to automation initiatives within client environments.

Why Join Us?

• Work at the cutting edge of AI-driven automation and Microsoft Copilot.
• Influence strategic digital transformation programmes across industries.
• Be part of a collaborative, growing consultancy where your impact is visible.
• Mentor and develop junior colleagues through Ten10s award-winning academy.
• Flexible working with opportunities to engage directly with clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Development: Design, build, and deploy automation and low-code solutions using Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) and Microsoft Copilot, ensuring quality and scalability.
• Client Engagement: Engage with a range of stakeholders to gather requirements, demonstrate solutions, and support successful delivery.
• Team Contribution & Mentorship: Support and guide junior developers, sharing knowledge and contributing to a strong team culture.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging Microsoft technologies, Copilot capabilities, and AI-driven automation trends, applying new learning to client projects.
• Collaboration: Work closely with delivery teams, architects, and consultants to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to client needs.

Essential Expertise

• Proven experience in Power Platform development (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot (e.g., Copilot Studio, Copilot in Power Platform).
• Experience engaging with business stakeholders and translating requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience supporting or mentoring junior team members.
• Strong problem-solving, solution design, and analytical skills.

Desirable Expertise

• Microsoft Certifications in Power Platform and/or Copilot.
• Previous RPA experience (UiPath, Power Automate Desktop, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere).
• Knowledge of coding languages (e.g., .NET, JavaScript, Python) to extend low-code solutions (not essential).
• Experience integrating Power Platform with Azure AI services or other enterprise systems.

What Were Looking For

• A proactive and collaborative consultant with a passion for intelligent automation.
• Comfortable operating in a hands-on technical capacity while contributing to broader solution discussions.
• A clear communicator who can bridge business and technology conversations.
• Driven, adaptable, and motivated by continuous learning and innovation.

Title: Software Engineer (Front-office) Company: Systematic Quant Fund Location: Cambridge (very flexible) Salary: Up to £65,000 (Plus P&L-linked bonuses) Experience level: 0-4 years' experience Company: An elite ML-driven systematic quant fund (on the precipice of becoming fully proprietary) are providing a very rare opportunity for someone to join their boutique operation and be part of an elite development team at a critical point in the business' journey as they become a prop-shop. The team is highly experienced in the trading sector, formed of senior team members within heavy hitters in the industry, with previous employees going on to work at the likes of Citadel. Fortunately, due to the high-trust culture of the business, you will quickly gain significant work-from-home and work-from-anywhere flexibility. Role: You will be joining the team at a genuinely important moment, playing a very significant role in shaping the future of the business. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of their low-latency trading platform as well as the management of infrastructure such as data feeds and trade-execution. About you: \* 0-4 years' experience (you could be a top graduate) \* Python proficiency (ideally your main language) \* Exposure to C++, Rust or C# (desirable) \* Ability to write performance-critical multithreaded code \* Interest in trading \* Genuine interest in technology \* Interest in maximising performance improvements \* Interest in high-availability systems with strict 99.999% uptime requirements Full details are available. Please don't hesitate to get in touch

Senior FullStack Developer

Duration: 4 months

Location: Remote

600 - 770 per day Inside IR35 - Umbrella only

Active SC clearance or eligibility to obtain it

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud FullStack Developer to join their dynamic team on a remote basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative projects within a collaborative environment.

Required Skills:

• Deep hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot (Web Services,
• Spring Security, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL (Postgres) - including schema design and
• query optimization
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design
• Patterns
• Familiarity with front-end development and integration using HTML and
• JavaScript
• Experience with Jenkins and modern CI/CD practices
• Proficiency in AWS services and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Strong experience with GitHub for version control and automated workflows
• (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Working knowledge of Docker for containerization
• Proficiency in Python scripting

Required Soft Skills:

• Soft skills are just as important as technical skills for this role - it is critical to have the right attitude and characteristics to be successful.

This requires:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills - critical to build good
• relationships and to work well with people
• Collaboration - needs to be a team player and work closely and well
• with many different people both inside and outside the team
• Enthusiastic and engaged - positive attitude
• Pro-active - do not expect to be told what to do - will need a level of
• drive and the ability to work without needing constant support
• Handle ambiguity and change

If you’re passionate about cloud-native development and want to contribute to innovative projects, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join a forward-thinking organisation that values your skills and initiative!

Infrastructure Design Engineer

• 6 month contract

• Fully remote workinh

• Up to £520 per day

• SC Cleared role

Key Skills:

• Strong background in Wintel Infrastructure

• AD, Exchange, GPO, DNS/DHCP

• Automation

Overview:
Are you a skilled Infrastructure Engineer ready to make a strategic impact within a dynamic environment? We are seeking a highly motivated professional to join our team on a pivotal contract, focusing on designing and deploying scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure solutions. This role offers the opportunity to work remotely within a collaborative setting, supporting critical systems that drive operational excellence. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and possess a passion for innovative infrastructure design, this is your chance to contribute to high-stakes projects with a leading organization.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience in developing scalable and efficient system architectures
• Strong automation skills for deployment, configuration, and management of applications
• Proficiency in monitoring system performance and proactively resolving issues
• Deep understanding of security standards and regulatory compliance
• Excellent collaboration skills, working closely with development, QA, and operations teams
• Technical expertise in Kubernetes, containers, and Azure cloud platform
• Active SC clearance (MOD SC clearance preferred) and sole UK nationality

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with additional cloud platforms or infrastructure tools
• Knowledge of Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure design and deployment, ideally 3+ years in a similar role

Other Requirements:

• Must hold active SC clearance and be a sole UK national
• Ability to work remotely and independently
• Willingness to undergo additional vetting processes, which may extend onboarding time

Salary: £200k + bonus

Summary

The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading HFT firm is looking for a dynamic software engineer to join one of their most successful quant trading teams. Collaborating extensively with traders and other technologists, you’ll design, write and maintain a complex Python infrastructure. This role is as front office as developers come within the firm without being a Quant.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about: data, development, and keen to learn about automated electronic trading. They are very keen to see people with an interest in sports / sports betting. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment, with a focus on processes that are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.

The trading team see technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies.

Financial experience is not essential; just an eagerness to learn, and learn quickly.

Requirements

• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to make the right engineering decisions to achieve maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
• Solid knowledge of Python and Linux (some C++ preferable)
• Self-directed; able to take ownership of several projects at once
• Knowledge of SQL, Redis, InfluxDB is a bonus
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
• An interest in sports / sports betting is advantageous

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus; they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment and culture
• Free breakfast , lunch and dinner

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency.

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.

What this opportunity involves

While each project involves unique tasks, contributors may:

• Design original computational physics problems that simulate real physics research workflows;
• Create problems requiring Python programming to solve (using Numpy, SciPy, Sympy);
• Ensure problems are computationally intensive and cannot be solved manually within reasonable timeframes (days/weeks);
• Develop problems requiring non-trivial reasoning chains in mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics;
• Base problems on real research challenges or practical applications from physics practice;
• Verify solutions using Python with standard physics simulation libraries;
• Document problem statements clearly and provide verified correct answers.

What we look for

This opportunity is a good fit for physicians with an experience in python open to part-time, non-permanent projects. Ideally, contributors will have:

• Degree in Physics (Theoretical, Experimental, or Computational) or related fields;
• Python proficiency for numerical validation. MATLAB, R, C, SQL, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, domain-specific libraries, Stata or knowledge of any programming language can be equivalent;
• 2+ years of professional experience: applied, research, or teaching experience is applicable;
• Experience with numerical simulation methods;
• Ability to design problems that mirror real physics research workflows;
• Creative thinking in problem design across diverse physics areas;
• Familiarity with physics modeling and approximation techniques;
• Strong written English (C1+).

How it works

Apply ? Pass qualification(s) ? Join a project ? Complete tasks ? Get paid

Project time expectations

For this project, tasks are estimated to require around 1020 hours per week during active phases, based on project requirements. This is an estimate, not a guaranteed workload, and applies only while the project is active.

Compensation

On this project, contributors can earn up to $35 per hour equivalent, depending on their level and pace of contribution.

Compensation varies across projects depending on scope, complexity, and required expertise. Please note that other projects on the platform may offer different earning levels based on their requirements.

Salary: £200k base + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an expert C++ engineer to join their core UI team. Their projects include applications for real-time trading and generation of information-rich visualizations based on archived data.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This team serves the UI needs across the business, and this role will involve writing highly optimized code for high-performance back-ends running on Linux to process huge amounts of data. There will also be an opportunity to do full-stack work, contributing to the C++ front-end code for Qt desktop applications, as well as Typescript/React for web applications.

Here, technology is viewed as key to their continued success. The successful C++ Engineer will be passionate about development, have a strong work ethic and be motivated to continually learn and improve.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years’ modern C++ development experience (C++ 11/14/17/20)
• Solid experience of Linux and low-level systems programming
• Knowledge of and ability to develop scalable back-end services
• Skilled at writing reliable code, and providing code review feedback to others
• Bonus points for any of: Typescript/Javascript, React, Qt, Python

NB: Please do not apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

A leading Financial Services organisation undergoing a large scale data transformation is looking to hire an experienced Data Quality Manager on a permanent basis. The role offers a salary of £100,000 plus a strong benefits package and flexible working.

This role will suit a technically credible Data Quality leader with a genuine passion for data quality, accuracy and trust. You will work closely with data engineers and platform teams to embed pragmatic governance and quality controls into delivery, while influencing stakeholders across the business and possess a commercial mindset.

This is a hands on technical leadership role, combining data quality and governance ownership with practical engineering input. You will lead a small team and partner with data engineers and operational SMEs to embed best practice across data quality, governance and data management.

Role remit

• Own and evolve the data governance framework within an engineering-led environment
• Define governance standards, guardrails, data contracts and SLAs
• Partner with Risk, Audit, Data Protection and Legal to meet compliance requirements
• Work with data engineering teams to embed data quality into pipelines and workflows
• Provide hands-on guidance on data modelling, reconciliation, metadata and best practice

Experience required

• Strong background in Data Quality, Data Governance and Data Management within a modern data engineering environment
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, Azure, SQL, Python and orchestration tools
• Proven experience embedding data quality controls across data pipelines and ETL transformation workflows
• Good understanding of modern data architectures and quality control patterns
• Experience with data profiling, lineage analysis, reconciliation and metadata management
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams

If you are an experienced Data Quality Manager with the required background, please respond with an up-to-date CV for review.

Salary: £200k + bonus

Summary

Not your standard financial services provider, this firm prides itself on its flat hierarchy, avoiding bureaucracy whilst rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry.

Based in London, Chicago, Sydney & Amsterdam, they are looking to expand their low-latency team with a developer well-versed in modern C++ (C++11 onwards). They design, build and maintain the entire software stack and everything they build is used in-house, trading over $175 billion of assets every day.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of C++11 onwards (they have a completely post-2011 codebase)
• Sound understanding of what happens inside a computer when your code is running, e.g. caching, paging & system calls, how these work and why. (Knowledge of execution pipeline in a modern CPU is a bonus.)
• Good proficiency in mathematics, especially being comfortable with calculus and matrices (as much of the work involves designing and implementing numerical algorithms)
• Familiarity with common algorithms and data structures and their performance trade-offs
• Practical experience designing and implementing complex software systems is a plus
• Experience with Linux and/or Python is a plus, but by no means a necessity
• Financial experience is NOT required

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Significant compensation package - you are making a direct impact on the PnL - they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

Salary: £200k + bonus

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a cross-asset team on the company’s biggest and most profitable trading group.

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is seeking an experienced Python QD.

Collaborating extensively with talented researchers and technologists, you will develop new research infrastructure and look at ways to improve the production systems that power the business. Working in a dynamic, energetic environment, finding solutions to complex technical problems will enable productivity to increase and the entire business to grow. They are very keen to see people with an interest in sports / sports betting.

Technology is viewed as a crucial component of their continued success. The successful Python quantitative developer will be passionate about development, highly driven and excel when given ownership of projects and responsibilities. You’ll be expected to have superb problem-solving skills and a proven track record with large data sets.

Requirements

• Solid experience working with Python on large distributed systems
• Strong Linux platform skills
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
• An interest in sports / sports betting is advantageous

NB: Please do not apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

Salary: up to £200k base + bonus

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for all-star coders at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms. The Systems Development team builds and maintains the infrastructure and software platform used by all Systems teams to manage servers and networks.

As a Python Developer, your workload will be varied, offering great opportunities to improve and have a huge impact. Your main focus will be tool development (in Python), both improving and integrating existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as designing and building new ones.

The successful Python Developer loves to be challenged and thrives in fast-paced environments. You’re a big fan of open-source software, adept at effective multitasking and a proponent of automation - why do the same task twice manually?

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience, including strong Python programming skills
• Highly proficient in debugging and analysing problems quickly
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• Excellent understanding of CompSci fundamentals
• Bonus points for knowledge of: Debian operating system, systems configuration management and/or CI/CD tools and processes

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Truly flat management structure, with no red tape
• Friendly culture where everyone’s ideas are encouraged and celebrated
• Feel valued and be rewarded for your hard work where coding is front and centre

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

Salary: up to £200k + bonus

Summary

This is a superb opportunity for a well-organised and pragmatic engineer with a passion for concise, efficient code to join the team who design, develop and maintain the infrastructure at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm.

A complex and involved role, you will be designing, developing and striving to always improve the platforms and tooling, and also automating complex processes to reduce manual tasks. You will maintain the current infrastructure and tooling while constantly evaluating new technologies and techniques, choosing those which could be applicable.

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic record with a scientific degree from a top-tier university, have a minimum of three years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer where you designed tools to automate processes for your team and the wider business.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of automation, e.g. tools you developed, what impact they had, etc.
• Excellent development skills using Python or Go
• At least one of the following: Linux, networking, storage technologies
• Experience of standard development tools, e.g. git, IDEs, CI/CD, test-driven techniques
• Previous exposure to one of the following would be highly desirable: containerisation; monitoring applications; logging tools; configuration management; knowledge of trading systems.

NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Challenging work within a truly flat structure; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
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ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

OUR PEOPLE:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers!!

ROLE SUMMARY:

FTSE Russell, a leader in global indexing and analytics, is seeking a skilled and motivated Quantitative Engineer to build robust, scalable and automated applications that support trillions in assets. You will have a combined understanding and background in software engineering, quantitative finance and data analysis to help build the next generation of Index solutions. Your work will be at the intersection of finance and technology, working alongside other analysts and engineers supporting the timely delivery of high-quality software, and fostering a culture of learning, innovation and continuous improvement.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

As a Quantitative Engineer, you’ll build with purpose - solving real-world problems with measurable impact. You will need to possess an excellent attention to detail and an ability to think laterally to solve business problems alongside an ability to hit the ground running, learn quickly and work against tight deadlines.

• Develop and Engineer: Write clean, efficient, maintainable code to support index calculations, back-testing, performance attribution and analytics frameworks used for internal and external stakeholders. Build tools to streamline Index monitoring, validation and rebalancing as well as ad-hoc requests.
• Work with data: Integrate, process, clean and analyze financial datasets including traded instruments (equity, fixed-income, currencies, commodities and their derivatives), reference and alternative data, and ensure their appropriateness for production grade applications.
• Automate and Scale: Implement RESTful APIs, cloud-native solutions, microservices, and automated CI/CD pipelines for rapid delivery. Design test cases and implement automated test drivers. Analyse production problems, provide troubleshooting and support as and when needed.
• Business Support: Collaborate with Product, Research and Operations teams to provide support and tools for their day-to-day and periodic activities, transition prototype code to our unified Enterprise computational framework and extend the Firm’s analytics and product offering.
• Learn and Grow: Gain in depth exposure to quantitative methods, systematic investment strategies and associated analytics, and the full lifecycle of FTSER’s product offering. Communicate with clarity, precision, and influence, presenting complex information in a clear and concise format that is appropriate for the audience.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• Minimum 2 years experience of quantitative analytics, research and development within financial services with a bank, asset manager, insurance company or related vendor. Strong background and expertise in data and methods applicable within risk management, portfolio construction, systematic investment strategies, cross-asset cash and derivative instruments and conventions are required.
• Graduate with an advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in Mathematics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Statistics, Physics or related scientific discipline, with any further professional qualifications being welcome.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL. Experience and exposure to data analytics libraries such as numpy, pandas, scipy, cvxpy. Experience with queries and familiarity with stored procedures. Familiarity with code version control tools such as GIT or similar, and ideally experience with APIs implementation
• Strong background in software engineering best practices, standards and principles. Ability to write high performance code, strong understanding of data structures, algorithmic development, code optimization and complex problem-solving skills are required.
• Additional programming skills in C# or Java, experience defining manipulating, and managing configurations and systems based on JSON and XML models. Database skills across standard technologies such as SQL Server, Sybase, Snowflake or PostgreSQL. Cloud development, management and deployment with services such as AWS (EC2, Lambda, Glue, EKS, SQS) or similar.

Career Stage:
Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject .

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

OUR PEOPLE:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

ROLE PROFILE:

As a Lead in the Engineering Practices team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing engineering practices across the organisation. This varied position covers many aspects of engineering, including Cloud, Software Development, DevOps, CICD, Observability and Operations, ensuring our engineering practices are fit-for-purpose and ensuring best practices are adopted throughout our teams.

Key responsibilities of this role will be to drive initiatives around operational practices, including FinOps, Observability, Resilience and Operational Automation. Driving operational cost efficiency initiatives across the Group will be a critical outcome.

Success in this role will be measured by increased operational efficiency, as measured by metrics that you will need to develop and build. You will collaborate with senior leaders, engineers, and cross-functional teams, providing thought leadership and mentoring to support the professional development and growth of our engineering community.

ROLE SUMMARY:

• Develop strategies, then steer and monitor the delivery of key parts of our Engineering Practices, as needed. Key focus area for this role will be Operational practices - including FinOps, Observability, Resilience and Operational Automation.
• Lead the evolution and adoption of engineering practices across the organisation, ensuring methodologies remain up-to-date and effective, particularly in support of AI initiatives.
• Lead initiatives to drive operational cost efficiency across the Group, in areas such as Cloud, Software Licencing, Infrastructure Decommissioning, and Automation.
• Define and build metrics to measure operational efficiency across the Group.
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders, engineers, and cross-functional teams to provide thought leadership, mentorship, and support for professional growth within the engineering community.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• Broad experience of software and cloud engineering in large, complex organizations.
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices (DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, CICD, Testing, Observability etc) and IT service management (ITSM) enabled by a modern engineering tooling ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with coding, and the ability to solve problems using common engineering tools e.g. GitHub/GitLab, Python, Java, Go, PowerBI, SQL, GitHub Copilot etc.
• A passion for driving and delivering operational efficiencies.
• Experience working for a large, complex organisation where decisions and actions are highly federated.
• Solid skills in leading and managing communities of internal stakeholders, fostering collaboration and driving the adoption of strategic standards and ways of working.

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:

• An opportunity to shape and drive impactful initiatives within a leading global financial market infrastructure provider.
• Work with the most knowledgeable leaders in LSEG’s engineering and operational domains to solve impactful problems.
• Exposure to cutting-edge Engineering practices, such as Agentic AI development, get inspired by learning from industry trends and high-profile use cases from across LSEG.
• Be recognized as a trusted advisor and expert in LSEG, contributing your expertise and thought leadership to all engineering divisions within the organization.

Career Stage:
Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject .

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities will include:

• Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using IaC with Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Develop & optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery for large-scale distributed systems using Amazon CodeBuild, GitHub Actions & Terraform Enterprise
• Implement and maintain observability solutions to establish real-time monitoring and proactive incident response using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch
• Ensure high availability and performance of relational and time-series databases (PostgreSQL/QuestDB), including replication, failover strategies, and query optimization

Skills & Experience Required

• Extensive experience with AWS, including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, API Gateway, Route53, SSM, EFS, Backup, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Config, Elasticache, and networking components in a highly available environment.
• Strong Python programming & automation skills in Python
• Proven experience with event streaming (i.e. Kafka/Kinesis)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch)
• Proven track record managing infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK
• Strong background in incident management, system reliability, and operational leadership, with experience conducting root cause analysis & implementing reliability improvements

Benefits & Incentives

• Build and scale mission-critical systems that power global financial markets
• Work in a technology-driven culture focused on automation, performance, and reliability
• Contribute to shaping the future of financial technology
• Engage with cutting-edge AWS, SRE, and observability tools in a fast-moving environment

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!

Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131

About Man Group

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Headquartered in London, we manage $227.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at

* As at 31 December 2025

About Man AHL:

Man AHL employs diversified quantitative techniques to offer a range of strategies which encompass traditional momentum, non-traditional momentum, multi-strategy and sector-based approaches. Man AHL’s strategies are primarily alternative and seek to gain potential predictive, alpha-generating insights through rigorous analysis of large data sets.

Man AHL is a specialised engine, applying scientific rigour and advanced technology and execution to a diverse range of data to build systematic investment strategies, trading continuously over hundreds of global markets. The team of 150 investment professionals, including 110 researchers, is comprised of scientists, technologists and finance practitioners, driven by curiosity and intellectual honesty, and a passion for solving the complex problems presented by financial markets.

The engine leverages Man Group’s unique collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI). The OMI conducts field-leading academic research into machine learning and data analytics, which can be applied to quantitative investing.

Founded in 1987, Man AHL’s funds under management were $63.8 billion at 31 March 2024. Further information can be found at .

The Team:

AHL Macro is the team responsible for Macro strategies. The team systematically trades liquid futures and FX at different frequencies, with holding periods ranging from monthly to intraday.

Technology and Business Skills:

• 4+ years of experience researching and live trading alpha signals for futures and FX
• Experience with intraday > monthly predictor design and analysis
• Experience with portfolio construction, risk analysis
• Strong understanding of transaction costs, and mitigation strategies
• Strong coding skills and experience of handling large data sets. We use Python and its scientific stack for both research and live trading

Personal Attributes:

• Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical, statistical, and computing content e.g., Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or Physics from a leading university

• Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm

• Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving

• Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with contending business demands and priorities

• Strong interpersonal skills; able to build and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, technologist, traders and senior business stakeholders alike. Ability to mentor junior researchers

• Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views

Working Here:

AHL fosters a performance driven, meritocratic culture with a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent, and collaborative, offering ample opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do. We are actively engaged with the broader research and academic community, as well as renowned industry contributors.

Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group
You’ll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you’ll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at .

You’ll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you’ll receive two annual ‘Mankind’ days of paid leave for community volunteering.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact .

Production Support Engineer - Trading Systems

This is a rare chance to join the technology backbone of one of the world’s most ambitious digital asset firms - a company that operates at the intersection of institutional finance and crypto markets, moving serious capital across global venues every day.

The team supporting their trading and risk infrastructure needs a sharp, independent engineer who thrives in fast-moving environments. When the market is open, every second counts - and your instincts, speed, and depth of knowledge are what keep things running. This is not a service desk. You will be deep in logs, databases, and systems alongside traders and engineers - hunting root causes, not managing queues.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead investigation and resolution of production incidents across trading and risk systems
• Dig into logs, SQL, and system metrics to find root causes - not just symptoms
• Work directly with traders, quant teams and developers during live incidents
• Support order flow, execution pipelines, market data feeds, and trade lifecycle processes
• Build automation and tooling that eliminates repetitive manual operations
• Improve monitoring, observability, and alerting across the stack
• Participate in on-call and out-of-hours incident response

Key skills

• Linux / Unix environments
• SQL for investigation and debugging
• Production incident troubleshooting
• Monitoring tools - Geneos, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Scripting and automation - Python, Bash

Highly valued experience

• FIX protocol
• Exchange connectivity and market data systems
• Messaging systems - Kafka, Solace, Tibco, MQ
• Order management systems (OMS / EMS)
• Trading platform infrastructure
• Understanding of trading lifecycle and order flow

Overview The VP Technology Business Analyst will partner with Compliance, Technology, and Front Office stakeholders to define, deliver, and continuously enhance trade and electronic communications surveillance capabilities. The role focuses on translating regulatory and business requirements into high-quality technology solutions, with strong knowledge of surveillance platforms (e.g., SMARTS, TradingHub) and hands-on experience applying AI/analytics techniques to surveillance use cases. Experience in Cash Equities and/or Fixed Income related products, including booking models and trade flows, is highly desirable—particularly for Trade Surveillance implementations. Key Responsibilities Regulatory Requirements & Business Analysis: 1. Own end-to-end business analysis for trade surveillance and eComms surveillance initiatives (new capabilities, enhancements, migrations, regulatory change). 2. Elicit, document, and manage: business requirements, functional specs, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and operating models. 3. Lead workshops with Compliance Surveillance, Legal/Regulatory, Operations, and Technology to align scope and outcomes. 4. Demonstrate working knowledge of surveillance systems and integrations, including: 5. SMARTS (NASDAQ) 6. MAST (TradingHub) and/or similar TradingHub surveillance components 7. Case management workflows and alert ingestion pipelines 8. Define and validate source-to-target mappings from OMS/EMS, exchange/venue feeds, reference data, and communications archives into surveillance platforms. 9. Ensure controls around lineage, reconciliation, completeness, and evidentiary standards. AI / advanced analytics enablement: 1. Identify and translate AI/ML opportunities into implementable requirements (e.g., alert triage, clustering, anomaly detection, NLP for comms, entity resolution). 2. Partner with data science/engineering teams to define training data needs, evaluation metrics, model governance, and human-in-the-loop workflows. 3. Ensure explainability, auditability, and model risk considerations are addressed in requirements and operating procedures. Stakeholder management & governance: 1. Act as a key liaison between Compliance and Technology; manage prioritization, trade-offs, and delivery timelines. 2. Support UAT planning/execution, test strategy, and production readiness (runbooks, controls, monitoring, SLAs). Required Skills & Experience 1. Experience as a VP level Business Analyst / Product Analyst in a technology delivery environment (Agile, hybrid, or waterfall). 2. Strong domain knowledge of Equities and Fixed Income market structure and trade lifecycle (orders, executions, allocations, confirmations 3. Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with data analysis tools (e.g., Python, Excel, Tableau). 4. Hands-on experience working with surveillance platforms such as SMARTS and MAST (TradingHub), or closely comparable vendor tools. 5. Strong understanding of data integration concepts: message formats, data models, reference/master data, reconciliation, and controls. 6. This is a hands-on analysis role, primarily as an individual contributor with potential to lead a small team of global business analysts. 7. Excellent documentation and communication skills; able to translate complex business problems into clear specifications. 8. Familiarity with communications surveillance is beneficial but not required (role is trade-surveillance focused unless specified).

Our client, a leading global investment manager, are growing their European operation and are looking to hire a senior, data focussed, technical business analyst. This is a senior (director level) role, responsible for leading complex data initiatives to support and build out scalable applications for their fixed income stakeholder group. As a senior technical business analyst in data management, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of fixed income data products. You will be responsible for these products’ success from inception to delivery, collaborating with cross functional teams, and solving complex data challenges that align to strategic business outcomes. To be successful in this role you will need to have deep experience in the asset management industry, particularly in fixed income, and a strong track record of delivering data initiatives and delivering scalable, high-impact solutions in this environment. Key responsibilities: 1. Leading and driving business and data initiatives as part of a delivery team, designing and delivering scalable solutions for fixed income stakeholders. 2. Mentoring and guiding delivery teams in building fixed income data products, identifying automation opportunities and integrating emerging technologies. 3. Developing high-quality, well documented and efficient business requirements, ensuring development follows modern coding practices. 4. Partnering with tech leads to refine product roadmaps and milestones, capturing technical designs and working closely with delivery teams. 5. Leading backlog refinement, prioritization and sprint planning, ensuring user stories have clear acceptance criteria and measurable business outcomes. 6. Using advanced SQL skills to conduct data analysis, including reviewing stored procedures and Java code to deliver end to end process mapping. Key requirements: 1. Deep asset management experience, specifically within fixed income. 2. Extensive experience as a data product owner and/or technical business analyst working with large scale datasets or data platforms within fixed income. 3. Experience developing product roadmaps, managing backlogs, guiding prioritisation of data products using Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence. 4. Strong data management background - data evaluation and mapping skills, including interface mapping to databases and integration with internal and external applications. 5. Technical proficiency in Python, SQL, Power BI, and data analysis tools. 6. Leadership experience – leading cross-functional teams and stakeholder influencing skills.