Senior AI-Driven Finance Delivery Engineer

Vanguard Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a senior Global Investment & Finance Systems Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in the UK. You will partner with business and IT, architect end-to-end solutions, and drive production-ready delivery across GIFS and IMG teams.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and translate complex investment challenges into scalable, reusable capabilities with strong governance and QA. Hybrid UK work model offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of relevant software, data, quantitative, or analytics engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical workstreams and delivering production-quality solutions across teams or business areas.
• Experience supporting investment management, quantitative research, or related front-office analytical functions.
• Financial services experience and cloud-based data or AI platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner across UK Investment Management Group to understand workflows and shape high-value opportunities.
• Translate investment challenges into actionable technical opportunities across software, data, AI, and optimization.
• Architect, build, and validate solutions from rapid experimentation through MVP to production deployment.
• Lead productionalisation of research code, models, tools, and patterns with strong testing, data lineage, and governance.
• Establish scalable engineering patterns for AI-enabled solutions with human-in-the-loop controls and evaluation frameworks.
• Influence leaders on investment, adoption, reuse, or retirement of capabilities.
• Guide hands-on delivery across distributed teams while ensuring technical quality and business outcomes.
• Share successful UK engagements into reusable patterns across GIFS.

Skills

Investment management workflows

Software engineering

Python

Cloud platforms

AI/ML

Data engineering

Experimentation and MVP delivery

Excel/SQL/Tableau knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, or related field

Tools

CI/CD

Excel

Access

VBA

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a senior Global Investment & Finance Systems Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in the UK. You will partner with business and IT, architect end-to-end solutions, and drive production-ready delivery across GIFS and IMG teams.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and translate complex investment challenges into scalable, reusable capabilities with strong governance and QA. Hybrid UK work model offered.