Lead Platform Engineer, Portfolio Insights for Wealth

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Wealth seeks a Lead Software Engineer for its Portfolio Insights Construction team to build and maintain platforms delivering real-time analytics and client-facing dashboards for wealth advisors. You will drive technical excellence, shape team culture, and ensure platform reliability, with cross-functional collaboration across ingestion, processing, and serving layers.

The role emphasizes secure production code in Java/Spring Boot and Python, AI-assisted development, and scalable data

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot in a microservices architecture.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud-native patterns: Lambda, Step Functions, Terraform-managed infrastructure, and relational databases at scale.
• Working knowledge of event-driven systems, including Kafka producers/consumers and consumer groups.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted development tools, with strong validation skills for AI output.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure handling.
• Proficient across the full SDLC, with advanced understanding of agile delivery, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security practices.
• In-depth knowledge of financial services IT systems, ideally wealth/advisory data.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions across ingestion, resolution, and serving layers of the platform.
• Design, develop, and troubleshoot technical challenges, breaking down complex data-reconciliation problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code in Java/Spring Boot and Python/Java Lambdas.
• Review and debug code, including cross-service and cross-repo changes.
• Drive adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and establish validation standards for AI-generated code.
• Apply SDLC toolchain and AI-assisted development capabilities to improve delivery velocity.
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring operational issues to enhance platform stability.
• Lead evaluation of architectural approaches for data-platform challenges and drive technical discussions with internal teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

AI-assisted development

CI/CD

Security practices

Agile delivery

Financial services data

Tools

Terraform

Relational databases

Snowflake

React/TypeScript

Lambda

Job description

Connect Wealth seeks a Lead Software Engineer for its Portfolio Insights Construction team to build and maintain platforms delivering real-time analytics and client-facing dashboards for wealth advisors. You will drive technical excellence, shape team culture, and ensure platform reliability, with cross-functional collaboration across ingestion, processing, and serving layers.

The role emphasizes secure production code in Java/Spring Boot and Python, AI-assisted development, and scalable data