Senior Automation Engineer - London- Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing financial services firm in London seeks experienced software engineers to design automation frameworks, build high-performance integrations, and mentor juniors. Candidates should have over 8 years of software engineering experience, 3 years in AWS, and familiarity with LLM solutions. This role is ideal for those with a strong focus on security in SaaS and experience in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in software engineering, especially with Python.
• 3+ years designing distributed systems in AWS.
• Familiarity with financial or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design automation frameworks in Python on AWS Bedrock.
• Build integrations with core internal systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce coding standards.

Skills

Python

AWS

Jira

LLM/GenAI solutions

Security for SaaS integrations

Observability with Grafana

Tools

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class software engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic automation framework in Python on AWS Bedrock
• Decompose Jira workflows into microservices and LLM agents
• Own end-to-end delivery of automation solutions across the business, e.g. Operations, Compliance, Risk
• Build secure, high-performance integrations with core internal systems
• Develop prompt strategies, retrieval augmentation, and guard-rail policies for Bedrock models
• Measure and tune agent output quality, latency, and cost
• Mentor junior engineers; drive coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD hygiene

Skills & Experience Required

• 8+ years' experience of professional software engineering (Python ) with at least 3 years' designing distributed, event-driven systems in AWS
• Proven production experience integrating or fine-tuning LLM/GenAI solutions (OpenAI, Bedrock, or similar)
• Deep knowledge of Jira data model, webhooks, and REST/GraphQL APIs
• Strong grasp of security for SaaS integrations: OAuth, secret rotation, data-in-transit/at-rest encryption
• Familiarity with financial or regulated environments and related control frameworks, e.g. SOC 2, model governance
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Grafana, Datadog) and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable

• Prior work on KYC / AML automation, sanctions screening, or client onboarding flows
• Experience with event sourcing, domain-driven design, or service-based architecture
• Familiarity with LangChain, Haystack, or other agent frameworks; Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK / Terraform) and/or container orchestration with Kubernetes

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!

Jack Peck
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