Quant Engineering & AI Assurance Expert

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in Quantitative Engineering, Actuarial Modelling, Financial Modelling, or Model Engineering.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience, including integration of models through APIs.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software engineering controls for quantitative or analytical solutions.
• Strong understanding of model risk management, validation, controls, and governance.
• Knowledge of AI assurance, including explainability, auditability, testing, monitoring, and governance of AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience taking quantitative models from development or prototype environments through to production-ready solutions.
• Strong understanding of the Financial Services regulatory and risk environment.
• Ability to translate technical modelling and AI risks into practical controls and assurance requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across Technology, Quant, Risk, Compliance, and Audit functions.

Responsibilities:

• Industrialise and automate Balance Sheet Modelling workflows, improving scalability, repeatability, and operational resilience.
• Engineer and integrate quantitative and actuarial models using Python, APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
• Design and implement automated testing and validation frameworks covering model functionality, data quality, performance, and controls.
• Establish CI/CD practices for quantitative models and AI-enabled solutions, enabling controlled and repeatable deployment.
• Define and implement model risk, governance, and control frameworks appropriate for production modelling environments.
• Provide assurance over the use of AI and GenAI within modelling processes, ensuring solutions are explainable, traceable, auditable, and appropriately controlled.
• Conduct production readiness assessments, identifying gaps across technology, controls, testing, monitoring, and operational support.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive audit evidence, control documentation, and model governance artefacts.
• Work closely with Quantitative, Actuarial, Technology, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders.
• Support BSM procurement and assurance activities, including assessment of third-party solutions, vendors, and associated model or AI risks.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Support
• Python
• Quant

More:

We are a Pension and Investments client operating in the Financial Services sector, and this role sits within a Remote First working arrangement with travel to local sites when required. The position is based UK-wide and will be via Umbrella. Our team is focused on supporting the industrialisation of Balance Sheet Modelling processes, helping transition modelling from manual or prototype solutions into governed, automated, production-ready capabilities. We operate in a highly regulated environment where robust testing, validation, assurance, auditability, and control are essential.

last updated 36 week of 2026