Python Engineer III — Financial Risk & AI Tooling

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Python Software Engineer to join the VCGTech team focused on financial control technology, including Independent Revaluation Infrastructure System (IRIS). You will design scalable, secure systems that support valuation, risk and regulatory compliance.

You will collaborate with asset class and platform teams to deliver robust Python applications, build data pipelines, and contribute to AI tooling and automation across the tech and finance functions.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python 3 with typing, context managers and functional patterns.
• Experience with test-driven or test-heavy development (unit/integration/regression).
• Ability to build multi-stage data processing pipelines (graph-based, batch, streaming).
• Understanding of security best practices, input validation and remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Experience with agentic AI and prompt engineering, including LLM-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Python applications within a large mono-repo using proprietary workflows.
• Build graph-based data pipelines for valuation adjustment calculations and risk analysis.
• Implement independent price verification and valuation workflows across asset classes.
• Develop consensus pricing solutions integrating with external market data providers.
• Configure distributed compute, job scheduling, analytics integrations and cloud storage pipelines.
• Write and maintain comprehensive unit, baseline and parameterized tests.
• Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities; support audit remediation efforts.
• Operate with a dry-run-first, confirm-before-modify, audit-everything approach on production systems.
• Design and maintain AI developer tooling, including prompt engineering and LLM-assisted code generation.

Skills

Python 3

Testing

Data pipelines

Security best practices

Agentic AI

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Python Software Engineer to join the VCGTech team focused on financial control technology, including Independent Revaluation Infrastructure System (IRIS). You will design scalable, secure systems that support valuation, risk and regulatory compliance.

You will collaborate with asset class and platform teams to deliver robust Python applications, build data pipelines, and contribute to AI tooling and automation across the tech and finance functions.