Python Developer (data analysis) - Glasgow - Investment Banking

The team is responsible for the health of the internal Python, Perl and R ecosystems and ensuring the continued success of the tens of thousands of Python, Perl and R users.

Primary responsibilities:

We are looking for a candidate who is willing to become the firm's primary point-of-contact for our R language user community, which is predominantly comprised of data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists and business analysts. The interactions will involve helping them set up and troubleshoot their development environments, evaluate and onboard 3rd party libraries, and author documentation.

The candidate will also author tooling and automation to make this experience as productive and low-touch as possible.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 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 (eg Jupyter)
• Familiarity with the enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with Linux
• Prior track record of leading technical delivery at feature level and/or serving as a key escalation point of contact
• Prior experience with OCI containerisation tools/platforms (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
• High-level understanding of Windows development

Inside IR35 - Glasgow based - hybrid working