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Investment Engineering Team Manager
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Lead Engineer, Front Office Investment Applications
You will lead the engineering team that designs, builds, and runs front office investment applications used by the UK investment business team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on delivering robust solutions across a mix of in-house applications and vendor platforms.
Working closely with the business, you will help shape requirements, design effective solutions, and oversee the implementation and support of business-critical investment applications. You will manage a team of 6 software engineers and collaborate closely with broader global technology teams to ensure alignment, consistency, and high engineering standards.
We will count on you to:
- Lead and develop the UK Investment Engineering team of 6 engineers
- Partner closely with front office stakeholders to understand priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- Apply AI tools and techniques to improve software delivery, code quality, and engineering productivity.
- Learn our technology architecture and systems, with a focus on investment management, trading systems, and the data lake.
- Collaborate with the broader Engineering team to understand standards, practices, and architecture.
- Perform technical analysis to identify root causes of issues and support timely resolution.
- Design and implement technical changes and improvements across key applications and services.
- Take an active role in coding, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
What you need to have:
- A degree in a financial, technological, mathematical, or scientific discipline, or equivalent practical experience with a strong analytical foundation.
- Experience in an engineering or software development role within investment management, ideally with exposure to front-office teams.
- Practical experience using AI tools in software development, with an understanding of how to apply them responsibly and effectively.
- Current experience with C# and Python, and a genuine passion for software development.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience designing robust data flows and systems.
- Strong, clear, and concise communication skills, both verbal and written.
- A strong sense of responsibility and commitment to quality.
- A self-driven, motivated work ethic.
- A collaborative, energetic, and enthusiastic approach.
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What makes you stand out?
- IMC or another investment management qualification.
- Experience with Apache Airflow.
- Experience with Databricks.
- A passion for design and architecture.
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients, and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance, and capital, people, and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.
Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections, and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.
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