DevOps Engineer, IG Group
Quant/Risk Systems Deployment
3+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
The UK's No.1 trading provider
Open for applications
The UK's No.1 trading provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- As a team of Quant Risk Analysts, Risk Analysts & Risk Managers, we are looking for someone who can thrive in the DevOps side of the model lifecycle, as well as re-engineer existing parts of the codebase
- At least 3 years’ experience in DevOps, CI/CD and software development, preferably within FinTech, Banks or Hedge Funds
- Understanding of system design architecture and SDLC principles
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Adherence to best practices in Software Engineering and DevOps
- Understanding of Agile software development
- Algorithmic design and refinement
- Real-time data processing, distributed systems and monitoring
- Python development: Libraries Pandas, Polars, Numpy, Numba, Scipy
- Broad understanding of market data, pricing and risk across several asset classes
- Extremely Proactive mindset – constantly seeking to learn, improve, optimise and automate processes
- Self-starter who can work autonomously whilst knowing when to escalate
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Software Engineering / Financial Engineering / Mathematics / or a numerical discipline
What the job involves
- The Financial Risk Team is responsible for the end-to-end management of IG Group’s credit, market, capital and liquidity risk profiles. The Team designs, develops and deploys various industry-standard risk models to help set policy, enforce it and report on it to several committees
- We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a data-driven technical risk management team in designing, developing and deploying pipelines
- Our tech stack is comprised of Python (incl. Pandas/Polars, NumPy/Numba, Scipy & Matplotlib), SQL, MongoDB, GitLab, Kubernetes, docker and increasingly GCP
- As the team that owns the Group-wide capital requirements model (and all the downstream reports from it), we have a strong focus on automation and are often fielding requests from various parts of the business to provide data and analysis
- The successful candidate will be working within a small London-based team
- Design, develop and deploy high-quality, scalable systems using industry best practices, SOLID principles, design patterns where applicable
- Identify, design and implement performance optimisations for data pipelines and processing workflows via GitLab-managed servers (incl. rebuilds of existing quant risk models)
- Automating processes and controls
- Continuous deployment of code changes to refine our risk management
- Liaising with the 1st line commercial teams to act based on the outputs of our models
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler as a UK-based spread betting company for gold, IG Group, abbreviated from Investors Gold Index, was initially set up to allow people to speculate and trade on the price change of gold without owning physical gold. And in the year 2000, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and its gradual evolution into the world of fintech began.
By 2011, the company had played a part in numerous international buyouts before narrowing its focus down to financial wagers. During the latter half of that decade, IG shut down its binary options trading platform and focused instead on building an investment portfolio with partner BlackRock Investments, all whilst maintaining its Forex and CFD trading processes. Since then, it has become a fast-paced market leader in the investment space.
In recent years, IG Group has developed major platforms for various trading actions and has grown profit and revenue significantly. Alongside this it has acquired a number of companies, including tastytrade and Freetrade, and launched its own crypto product, making it the first UK-listed company to launch crypto trading to retail investors. This further proves how much of a staple IG Group is in the world of financial trading.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Think big
- Deliver at pace
- Raise the bar
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Breon Corcoran
(Group CEO)Joined IG Group as CEO in January 2024. Prior to this, they were the CEO of WorldRemit and a Non-Executive Director at Tilney Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IG Group
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
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