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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
