Investment Platform Engineer in Bristol

Investment Platform Systems Analyst role at St. James’s Place.

Location: London - Lombard Street Office

Workplace Type: On-Site

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid‑Senior Level

As an Investment Platform Analyst, you’ll be providing crucial support for the SJP's Investment Platform – an ecosystem of applications, managed services, market data and data stores. You’ll be responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of both internal and third‑party applications to ensure the platform is a reliable and effective resource for investment teams, enabling the continued evolution of the Investment Proposition.

What you’ll be doing?

• Assisting the team’s SMEs by providing support on the Investment Platform's applications, data stores, and services.
• Monitoring Investment Platform applications automated job execution, investigating and escalating issues for resolution.
• Providing SME investment knowledge to technical development teams.
• Assisting in bridging the gap between centralized data teams and investment teams to ensure the integrity of the data estate.
• Supporting Investment Data Stewardship in representing investment data interests with colleagues across the group.
• Providing support to investment teams, helping them to self‑serve data and reporting needs through platform applications.
• Responsible for configuration, administration and maintenance of programmatic financial analysis environments, ensuring environments are accurate and fit for purpose.
• Collaborating with matrix‑managed Data and Technology teams to support the delivery of changes and enhancements to the platform.
• Promoting development standards & best practices within Investment team EUDA workflows & processes.
• Assisting in identifying and resolving breaks in instrument and position data to ensure applications are loaded within required timeframes.
• Reconciling platform systems to ensure the consistency and integrity of information across the entire ecosystem.

We’re looking for an investment technology SME who can collaborate with colleagues across Data, Technology, and Vendor Management teams on larger projects to ensure enhancements & evolutions to the platform are sufficiently robust & resilient.

Essential Criteria

• Experienced in building & maintaining applications to support internal business processes and workflows.
• Highly capable in data extraction, manipulation and reporting using Python and SQL.
• Proficiency in front end app development (React/JavaScript) and web framework (Flask/Django/FastAPI).
• Familiarity with code versioning, optimisation and associated best practices.
• Data analysis to investigate and quality control datasets feeding applications, ideally within an asset management context.

Desirable Criteria

• Building & executing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in using and supporting investment technology platforms such as Bloomberg, Factset, Aladdin, Axioma.
• Knowledge of typical financial/asset management data domains (positions, security, prices) and common asset classes.

Special Requirements

• Some business travel may be necessary.

What’s in it for you?

We reward you for the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects both personal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), or online rewards platform with a variety of discounts. We also have benefits to support whatever stage of life you are in, including:

• Competitive parental leave (26 weeks full pay)
• Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
• 10% non‑contributory pension (increasing with length of service)

Reasonable Adjustments

We’re an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all; if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at careers@sjp.co.uk.

What’s next?

If you’re excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.

As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.