Senior AI & Quant Delivery Engineer (Hybrid)

Vanguard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Global Investment & Finance Systems (GIFS) Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) based in GIFS UK. You will partner with IMG and ISG to identify high-value opportunities, architect, build, and validate solutions from experimentation through the GIFS SDLC pathway.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and turn delivery experience into reusable capabilities and engineering practices for the broader organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative/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.
• Experience supporting investment management, quantitative research, or front-office analytics.
• Financial services experience and cloud-based data or AI platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner across UK Investment Management Group to shape, test, and prioritize opportunities.
• Translate investment challenges into actionable technical opportunities using software, data, AI, ML, optimization.
• Architect, build, and validate solutions from rapid experimentation through MVP and initial production deployment.
• Lead productionalisation of research code, models, tools, and ensure testing, data lineage, and reliability.
• Establish scalable engineering patterns for AI-enabled solutions with human-in-the-loop controls.
• Influence senior leaders and guide decisions on investment, adoption, reuse, and retirement.
• Lead through hands-on delivery across distributed teams and global locations, ensuring technical quality.
• Translate successful engagements into reusable code and patterns, sharing lessons across GIFS.

Skills

Investment management

Software engineering

Quantitative research

Python

Cloud platforms

AI & ML

Education

Bachelor"s degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Stats/Physics

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Git

Tableau

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Global Investment & Finance Systems (GIFS) Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) based in GIFS UK. You will partner with IMG and ISG to identify high-value opportunities, architect, build, and validate solutions from experimentation through the GIFS SDLC pathway.

You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and turn delivery experience into reusable capabilities and engineering practices for the broader organization.