Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead - Python - VP

citi.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is looking for an Engineering Lead for its Quantitative Development Platform in London. This role involves guiding the technical direction, championing engineering excellence, and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience with Python data engineering, high-performance data stores, and real-time analytics. The position offers a competitive salary, 27 days of annual leave, and a hybrid work model, supporting a balance between remote and office work.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Annual performance related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Special discounts for employees

Qualifications

• Extensive background in production-grade, data-centric applications.
• Experience with enhancing developer experience in API deployment.
• Knowledge in generative AI prompt engineering and RAG pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical direction and implementation of the platform.
• Champion engineering excellence and mentor junior engineers.
• Architect scalable, secure reusable components.

Skills

Python data engineering stack

High-performance data stores

Real-time streaming analytics technologies

Cloud container technologies

Full-stack HTML5 web development

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Starburst

Snowflake

Job description

## For additional information, please review .**Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead – Python (Technology) – VP****Overview**Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.**What We do / The Team**Citi's Equities Technology team is undergoing significant growth and investment, specifically within our high-priority systematic trading and analytics systems. We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to drive the development of our next-generation quantitative development platform serving the Equities Cash, Derivatives, and Prime businesses.This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as the platform enters its key growth phase. You will be instrumental in shaping critical capabilities including building an event-driven equity options back tester and AI-powered data agents delivering market intelligence via rich dashboards. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a passion for markets and quantitative research, we want to hear from you!**Role Overview/What will you do:**As the Engineering Lead, you'll guide the technical direction and implementation of the platform. This involves:* Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and by mentoring junior engineers to establish robust coding standards and guardrails.* Architecting scalable, secure re-usable components. You'll drive the design process, aligning with or challenging existing blueprints, seeking consensus from senior leads and stakeholders.* Staying up to date with open-source solutions and latest trends to accelerate business outcomes.**Key Skills and Experience required*** Extensive background in delivering production-grade, data-centric applications for quantitative trading and analytics, with demonstrated expertise in: + The python data engineering stack (Polars, Parquet, FastAPI, Jupyter, Airflow, Streamlit, Ray) + High-performance data stores and query engines (Starburst, Snowflake) + Real-time streaming analytics technologies (Kafka, Flink) + Cloud container technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)* Proven success in enhancing developer experience that reduces friction in coding, building and deploying APIs and client libraries.* Real-world application of generative AI prompt engineering and RAG pipelines.* Full-stack HTML5 web development skills.**Desired Skills:*** Understanding of Equities Cash, D1 & Deriv market mechanics and products via sell-side trading projects* Familiarity with low-latency programming languages such as Rust or C++**What we’ll provide you**By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:* 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)* A discretional annual performance related bonus* Private Medical Care & Life Insurance* Employee Assistance Program* Pension Plan* Paid Parental Leave* Special discounts for employees, family, and friends* Access to an array of learning and development resourcesAlongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.#LI-AP2------------------------------------------------------**Job Family Group:**Technology------------------------------------------------------**Job Family:**Applications Development------------------------------------------------------**Time Type:**Full time------------------------------------------------------**Most Relevant Skills**Please see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------**Other Relevant Skills**For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------*Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.**If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review* *.* *View Citi’s and the poster.*