Python Developer

Job Description

I am looking for a highly skilled and motivated Python developer. In this role, you will collaborate with programming-language experts, developers, data scientists, and technical leads to drive best practices and enhance development experiences across the organisation. Your primary focus will be supporting and empowering our R language user community, which includes data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists, and business analysts

Role & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a global team of programming-language experts, developers, data scientists, and technical leads.
• Develop and implement common language/framework usage blueprints to ensure consistency and best practices.
• Introduce and integrate industry-standard development tools into the organisation.
• Engineer internal tools and libraries as needed to support development initiatives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the firm's R language user community, which includes data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists, and business analysts.
• Support users by:
  • Assisting with setting up and troubleshooting their development environments.
  • Evaluating and on boarding third-party libraries.
  • Creating and maintaining user documentation.
• Design and implement tooling and automation to streamline the development experience and minimise manual intervention

Skills & Qualifications

Essential

• 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 Life-cycle (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

Desired

• Prior experience with OCI containerisation tools/platforms (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
• High-level understanding of Windows development

Benefits

• Generous Holiday Scheme + Bank Holidays
• Hybrid Working
• 70k Base Salary
• Pension Scheme
• Health and Well Being Programme