Python Quant Data Engineer – Systematic Trading Technology

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Location: London
Job Description:

Be an integral part of a technology team that’s constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Python Quant Data Engineer you will help build the technology for Systematic Equities Trading Business. The role would sit in the Equities Trading Data & Analytics technology team. As a Vice President Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the agile technology team, you will play a crucial role in improving, developing, and delivering top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your skills and contributions will have a substantial impact on the business, and your profound technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies will be utilized to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

  • Build and support fast, reliable, globally consistent data pipelines (data ingestion, cleaning, backfilling, storing) for the research and execution systems ensuring data integrity and low-latency access for research and trading.
  • Work with the research and trading teams to onboard new datasets efficiently and consistently for use globally by the business.
  • Design and build robust tools and frameworks to support quantitative research and production trading.
  • Design, build and support research infrastructure (e.g. data access APIs, high performant and scalable simulation environments, feature and strategy signal stores)
  • Build and support research and trading analytics libraries (e.g. markouts, strategy analytics)
  • Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

  • Design and implementation of front-office systems for quant trading.
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Strong expertise in Python. Comfortable with scientific & dataset libraries such as pandas, numpy.
  • Experience with KDB/Q
  • Knowledge of data pipelines, market data processing and backtesting workflows.
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Academic experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • Knowledge of machine learning, statistical techniques and related libraries.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills And Capabilities

  • Strong knowledge and experience in FIX, Market Data, Analytics, OMS, and equities trading in global markets are assets
  • Additional knowledge of Java / C++ is a strong plus.
  • Practical cloud native experience is a plus.
  • Practical cloud experience is a plus.

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Posted: June 6th, 2026