Senior Python Engineer - Finance Risk & IRIS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

VCGTech in Glasgow is seeking a Python Software Engineer to design and deliver robust financial control systems within a large mono-repo environment. You will implement valuation and risk workflows, integrate with market data, and ensure code quality and security across production systems.

You will work with asset class and platform teams to build scalable, secure solutions, focusing on independent verification and AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python 3, including type annotations, context managers, generators, and functional programming patterns.
• Experience with test-driven or test-heavy development, including unit, integration, and regression testing.
• Ability to build and maintain multi-stage data processing pipelines (graph-based, batch, or streaming).
• Understanding of security best practices, including input validation and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with agentic AI and prompt engineering, including LLM-based developer agents and workflow orchestration.

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 adjustment 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

Prompt engineering

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Job description

VCGTech in Glasgow is seeking a Python Software Engineer to design and deliver robust financial control systems within a large mono-repo environment. You will implement valuation and risk workflows, integrate with market data, and ensure code quality and security across production systems.

You will work with asset class and platform teams to build scalable, secure solutions, focusing on independent verification and AI-assisted development.