R Modeller/Developer - #140554

The Vacancy

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role within our firm, with a focus on building sustainable software that drives our business. We invest in the latest technologies to facilitate the delivery of our ground-breaking business solutions. Our teams are passionate about technology, work with cutting-edge tech and adopt an agile approach to software development.

We Are Looking For An R Developer With Financial Modelling Experience To Help Design, Build, Deliver, And Support Models & Applications Serving The Pensions Market. You Will

• Work alongside high-performing, highly skilled and multi-disciplinary teams. We work within teams that promote autonomy and engineering excellence, using the latest technologies.
• Drive innovation and increase the maturity of our frameworks, integrations, and automations.
• Collaborate closely with senior developers, architects, and actuarial modellers to deliver sustainable solutions that deliver value for our business.
• Be involved with meaningful work - we can provide complex challenges, at scale, in novel market areas.
• Be core to the product teams that build, test and scale our applications and services.
• Work closely with our R User and Model Expert Groups to promote best practices.
• Support less experienced team members with R development.
  
  

About You

To succeed in, and enjoy, this role you are likely to be familiar with:

• Modern software development best practices from initial problem and data analysis, through to solution design and technical implementation.
• Non-functional aspects of software delivery such as performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Financial modelling (pensions domain beneficial).
• Applying coding and technical solutions to complex financial scenarios.
• End-to-end implementation of R solutions
  
  

You Will Have Experience Of The Following

• Strong pensions domain knowledge gained in an actuarial context essential
• R Programming (ideally in the context of package development)
• Tidyverse (i.e. dplyr, purrr, tidyr)
• Git and general code-management / documentation practices
• Continuous improvement and continuous delivery practices
• R Shiny & R Markdown
  
  

In addition, you may have experience of some of the following:

• Automated build and deployment pipelines
• Automated test frameworks
• Accessing external APIs via R (particularly through httr/httr2)
  
  

You Will Be

• Confident across the entire software development lifecycle.
• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge.
• Focused on continuous learning and improvement.
• An effective communicator and an effective team player.
• Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels.
• Able to collaborate successfully with client and third-party technical teams.
• Able to effectively articulate technical concepts with senior stakeholders.
  
  

About Us

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment.

We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We’ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn’t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. Find out more about our careers here .

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know.

Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have.

We Offer

Our culture

We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about out people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction

Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing

We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working

We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology

We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development

There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.