Lead Platform Engineer, Python & AWS

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

We are currently seeking qualified candidates for a Lead Software Engineer position for our Platform Engineering team which is responsible for designing and building tools and workflows for our internal software engineering teams. These systems will allow them to build and deploy applications effortlessly allowing them to focus on building business functionality for their users. Your work will directly support enterprise-wide initiatives helping teams across the organization streamline operations improve reliability and accelerate delivery.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems and collaborating with other engineers to create high-impact internal platforms. The ideal candidate should have experience enabling IT organizations to work more efficiently standardize best practices and reduce friction across the development lifecycle. This includes creating reusable components automation frameworks and platform capabilities that empower our engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain core platform services and APIs

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions

Implement infrastructure automation and CI / CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools

Participate in code reviews architecture discussions and technical planning

Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle : architecture design implementation deployment and support

Ensure that team adheres to established development standards such as continuous integration code reviews and technical documentation

Monitor and optimize system performance reliability and security

Qualifications

10 years of experience in software engineering

Proficient in Python with experience building tools using widely adopted libraries such as Pandas NumPy Requests BeautifulSoup FastAPI and SQLAlchemy.

Skilled in packaging testing and deploying Python applications using tools like pytest setuptools Docker and Git; familiarity with CI / CD workflows is a plus.

Hands-on experience designing deploying and managing cloud-native applications using AWS services (e.g. EC2 Lambda S3 RDS CloudFormation) with a strong grasp of scalable and secure architecture principles.

Proficiency in DevOps practices including CI / CD pipelines infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform Jenkins) and container orchestration using ECS or EKS.

Familiarity with monitoring logging and performance optimization tools (e.g. CloudWatch X-Ray); AWS certification is a plus.

Experience building and maintaining published libraries frameworks and services that support a wide range of teams / departments

Excellent written and verbal communication

Attention to detail self-discipline and passion to drive and innovate

Must be comfortable with test-driven development continuous integration and agile development methodologies using tools like GIT Artifactory and Jenkins

Experience working with offshore development teams is a plus

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science engineering math or related field or equivalent experience is preferred

JOB TITLE

Lead Platform Engineer Python & AWS

JOB FAMILY

Software Engineering

LOCATION

280 Congress

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications Thats ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill workplace experiences and backgrounds.

As an equal opportunity employer Wellington Management considers all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression religion creed national origin age ancestry disability (physical or mental) medical condition citizenship marital status pregnancy veteran or military status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability or are assisting a candidate with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs please email us at .

At Wellington Management our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract inspire and retain the best talent in our strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary variable compensation and benefits. The base salary range for this position is :

USD 100000 - 225000

This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.

Base salaryis only one component of Wellingtons total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and / or Incentives if addition we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan health and wellbeing dental vision and pharmacy coverage health savings account flexible spending accounts and commuter program employee assistance program life and disability insurance adoption assistance back-up childcare tuition / CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absencepaid holidays volunteer sick and vacation time).

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our support of this commitment our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.

Key Skills

APIs,Docker,Jenkins,REST,Python,AWS,NoSQL,MySQL,JavaScript,Postgresql,Django,GIT

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 100000 - 225000