Controllers - Software Engineer - Vice President - London

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Strong analysis and design skills, plus knowledge of data structures, algorithms and performance-oriented design.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences, and comfortable working with multiple global stakeholders.

Expert Knowledge in One Or More Of

• Hands-on programming experience in Java or Python
• Significant solutions architecture and system design experience
• Experience of using Agentic AI coding tools - e.g. Claude Code, Co-Pilot Agent Mode, Devin
• Experienced with Cloud Technologies – ideally AWS – e.g. S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate
• Strong RDBMS knowledge
• Experience developing distributed, micro services-based applications.
• Experience with data modelling and curation for large-scale datasets

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or interest in investment banking or financial instruments
• Experience with big data concepts, such as Lakehouse, ETL data pipelines (e.g. Spark, AWS Glue)
• Experience with near real time and event-based systems like Kafka

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage end-to-end systems development in an Agile environment, from requirements analysis through coding, testing, UAT, implementation and maintenance.
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies and implementation plans.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into process workflows, data requirements and specifications.
• Build reusable solutions and identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration.
• Contribute to data modelling and curation.