Junior Quantitative Engineer

Phoenix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in London seeks a Junior Quantitative Platform Engineer to enhance their quantitative platform. You'll work with technologies like Python and AWS, ensuring efficient analytics and reporting solutions. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. This position offers a competitive salary and various benefits, promoting flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Career breaks

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Pro-active, self-motivated attitude with strong communication skills.
• Experience in problem solving within analytical environments.
• Ability to multitask across platforms and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain platform components for quantitative tools.
• Develop and integrate AWS and Python services for analytics.
• Ensure rapid and reliable platform performance.

Skills

Python

Analytical skills

Software development lifecycle

Problem solving

Education

University Degree or Masters in Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.

Tools

AWS

C#

SQL

Snowflake

Job description

Job Description

Job Type: Permanent

Location: This role will be based in our London office, with some travel between our Phoenix offices.

Flexible working: All our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Salary and benefits: £55,000 - £75,000 plus discretionary bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Closing Date: 10th December 25

We’re thrilled to offer an incredible opportunity to join Phoenix Group as a Junior Quantitative Platform Engineer within our Quantitative Engineering team in the Retirement Solutions and Asset Management (RSAM) function.

This is your chance to work in a fast-paced, greenfield environment where you’ll help shape the quantitative platform that powers analytics across Phoenix. Rather than building the calculations themselves, your focus will be on designing and delivering the technology foundation that enables quants to run models and tools at scale. You’ll work hands‑on with cutting‑edge technologies such as AWS services, Python, Beacon, data integration, and UI layers, to create robust, high‑performing platforms that deliver real business impact.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to define and implement strategies for embedding quant tools, reports, and applications that provide a single source of truth for analytics across asset management portfolios. We release quickly and frequently, and you’ll be empowered to deliver solutions that matter from day one.

We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long‑term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market‑leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

If you’re passionate about technology, eager to learn, and ready to make a difference, this is the perfect role to grow your skills and career.

Context – RSAM Quant Engineering Team

Quantitative Engineering is a newly established team within Phoenix Retirement Solutions & Asset Management. Working side by side with our portfolio managers, actuaries, and structurers, we develop tools and models that enable agile, informed decisions to optimise assets and liabilities, manage risk, and identify market opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a wide range of platform components that enable quantitative tools and models to run efficiently and securely across Phoenix
• Develop and integrate services using technologies such as AWS, Python, Beacon, and data pipelines to support analytics and reporting
• Ensure rapid and frequent releases, leveraging CI/CD pipelines and automation to deliver value quickly and iteratively
• Contribute to platform design and architecture discussions, focusing on scalability, resilience, and ease of integration
• Monitor, improve, and support platform performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues to maintain reliability
• Understand the data, strategy, tooling and workflows within Phoenix and use this knowledge to ensure our platforms are adding the highest value
• Build high quality products that meet our quant software development lifecycle standards

What are we looking for?

Personal Attributes

• A pro‑active, self‑motivated, energetic and “get things done” attitude
• Someone who is comfortable using their experience to challenge the status‑quo
• Strong analytical skills, able to multi‑task across platforms and multi‑layer solutions
• A team player with excellent communication skills

Qualifications

• University Degree or ideally Masters’ Degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Actuarial Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related field

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Python
• Software development lifecycle discipline, controls, tests, and development best practice, CICD
• Evidence of excellent problem solving within an analytical field

Desirable

• C# and .NET
• Experience with data, SQL, Snowflake
• Experience with Beacon, Athena, SecDB or similar
• Experience in the Financial Services industry
• Cloud development experience (e.g. AWS / Azure)

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome. Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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