Tech Lead (Asset Management Data Platform)

City of London
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Tech Lead - Asset Management Data Platform (Pricing & Quant Data)

Permanent | London (Hybrid - 3 days/week onsite)

Up to £140,000 + bonus + excellent benefits

Lorien is partnering with a leading UK investment and asset management organisation to hire a hands-on Tech Lead to help build and evolve a modern cloud data platform supporting front-office investment activity. This is a high-impact role in a London-based team that works closely with the business, shaping how critical pricing, hedging and investment datasets are produced, governed and shared.

This role involes leading technical design and delivery from the front, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards (without formal line management). You'll be trusted to operate with high autonomy and drive delivery day-to-day.

The opportunity (what you'll be working on)

Building and running a greenfield/early-stage Snowflake data platform that acts as a data hub for the asset management function
Delivering high-quality, timely data for pricing workflows (ensuring the right data is available for pricing, and distributed correctly once prices are produced)
Supporting asset & liability matching and hedging MI use-cases by providing trusted datasets to investment stakeholders and quant teams
Modernising how data is served to consumers, including reworking APIs/data services to use more timely inputs and improve pricing accuracy
Helping enable expansion of in-house capability to trade across multiple asset classes, by strengthening data foundations and delivery

What you'll do

Lead technical design and implementation across data services, APIs, and platform components
Set and uphold engineering standards (patterns, code quality, reviews, testing approach)
Drive modern delivery practices: CI/CD, test automation, DevOps ways of working
Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and production-ready in a regulated environment
Mentor and support engineers through pairing, coaching, workshops and code reviews
Work directly with front-office / investment stakeholders to translate outcomes into technical delivery
Operate independently, owning your technical backlog and delivery plan with minimal day-to-day oversight

What they're looking for (candidate profile)

Essential experience

Strong hands-on technical leadership in a front-office investment/trading environment
Background in Investment Banking, Asset Management, or Wealth Management, ideally where the organisation trades and manages its own funds
Proven ability to deliver data-intensive platforms or services used by front-office stakeholders (trading, portfolio, risk, quants)
Strong engineering capability across Python, SQL, Snowflake, and AWS (modern cloud patterns; serverless experience is a strong advantage)
Comfortable owning solution design, making decisions, and driving delivery with high autonomy
Excellent stakeholder communication skills (can influence, align, and keep delivery moving)

Desirable

Experience with pricing / market data, ALM concepts, hedging MI, or data supplied to quant/model users
Strong solution design skills (end-to-end data/service design)
Experience working across multiple teams / scaled delivery environments
Exposure to event-driven / serverless architectures and modern data engineering patterns

Why this role stands out

Modern stack: Snowflake + AWS (serverless), building on a new platform with real scope to shape engineering direction
Autonomy and trust-based culture: strong ownership, ability to implement what you think is best
Front-and-centre London team build-out: a key hire helping establish and grow a new capability close to the business
Meaningful domain challenges: pricing, hedging, investment datasets - real-world impact and complexity

Working pattern & package

London hybrid: typically 3 days per week onsite
Salary up to £140,000 (plus bonus)
Strong benefits package (details shared during process)
Open to flexible working discussions (including part-time/job share in principle)

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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