Cloud Engineer - Lorien Impellam

Overview

This role is for a Cloud Engineer on a 6 month contract, inside IR35, with 3 days a week in London. The position requires proficiency in Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, and experience in capital markets. A degree in a related field is mandatory.

Accountabilities Engineering & Delivery

• Design, develop, and maintain solutions across trading workflows, order management, and capital markets data flows
• Build integrations with OMS platforms
• Write clean, efficient, and scalable code in Python and SQL
• Develop and optimise data pipelines and models using Snowflake and AWS
• Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning, and reviews to align technical work with business outcomes

Quality & Best Practices

• Apply engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, security guidelines, and enterprise architecture principles
• Contribute to technical documentation and design artefacts
• Support troubleshooting, incident resolution, and continuous improvement of existing systems

Collaboration & Agile Ways of Working

• Work closely with the Tech Lead on solution design and technical decision making
• Partner with the Scrum Master to maintain team flow and delivery discipline
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, and business SMEs to translate requirements into working solutions
• Share knowledge across the team and contribute to a culture of learning and innovation

Stakeholder Partnership

• Work directly with front office and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that improve trading workflows and data quality
• Provide technical insight into trade lifecycle events, data flows, and OMS integration
• Communicate effectively with technical and non technical stakeholders

Essential Skills

• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering and application development
• Experience building data pipelines and ETL processes for capital markets data
• Hands on experience with AWS cloud services and Snowflake data platform
• Experience with cloud native development patterns and AWS services (Lambda, S3, RDS, etc.)
• Hands on experience integrating with OMS platforms (Aladdin, Murex, Charles River, etc.) including data extraction, transformation, and real time feeds
• Strong understanding of the capital markets trade lifecycle and order management workflows
• Strong problem solving skills with ability to design scalable, resilient solutions
• Ability to work effectively with front office stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to work effectively in cross functional teams

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Team Topologies)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and automated testing practices
• Experience in regulated financial services environments
• Knowledge of data modelling, streaming, and real time integration patterns

Knowledge (Essential)

• Understanding of trading workflows, trade lifecycle, and settlement processes
• Knowledge of data engineering workflows, pipelines, and integration patterns
• Awareness of regulatory and compliance considerations in capital markets delivery
• Familiarity with agile principles and team based delivery

Experience (Required)

• Minimum 3+ years' experience as a software or data engineer in asset management or investment banking
• Practical experience integrating with OMS platforms and building solutions for trading workflows
• Hands on experience with production trading systems and capital markets data flows
• Hands on experience with SQL, Python, Snowflake, and AWS in production environments
• Track record of delivering high quality, scalable solutions in fast paced environments

Desirable Experience

• Experience working directly with front office or business stakeholders
• Background in data intensive and cloud native solution delivery
• Exposure to complex, multi team delivery environments with dependencies

Qualifications (Additional)

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline (or equivalent practical experience)

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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