R Developer

On site

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

£ 55,000 / year

Full Time

11-03-2025

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Job Specifications

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

About the Company

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