Lead Python Developer - Vice President

Discover Your Future in Credit Risk Technology Build systems that shape credit decisions—at scale. Join a fast-moving Credit Risk Technology team where modern engineering, data, and AI come together to drive real-world financial impact. We operate with a startup mindset—ownership, speed, and experimentation—within the rigor and responsibility of a global financial institution. You’ll help design and deliver mission-critical platforms that support credit risk assessment, analytics, and decisioning across the firm. Job Overview The Credit Risk Applications Technology Lead Analyst is a senior engineering leadership role focused on building and evolving modern, scalable platforms for credit risk management. You will lead application design and development while partnering closely with risk, data, and platform teams to deliver systems that are performant, resilient, and compliant. This role blends hands-on development, system architecture, technical leadership, and AI-enabled innovation, with a strong emphasis on microservices, cloud-native design, and enterprise-grade governance. Key Responsibilities Architect, design, and deliver scalable, Python-based applications supporting credit risk analytics, workflows, and reporting. Partner with risk, product, and technology leadership to integrate platforms, identify enhancements, and enable new products and process improvements. Resolve high-impact, complex initiatives through deep analysis of business processes, system flows, and industry standards. Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise architecture, data, security, and infrastructure blueprints. Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding, testing, CI/CD, debugging, and production readiness. Design and evolve microservices-based architectures, ensuring scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability. Apply AI and GenAI capabilities to modernize workflows, automate analysis, and unlock new insights in credit risk. Serve as technical leader and mentor, coaching mid-level engineers and analysts and allocating work as needed. Apply sound risk and control judgment, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and policies while safeguarding clients, data, and the firm. How You’ll Work Operate with a startup mindset: ownership, bias for action, and pragmatic innovation. Deliver with enterprise discipline: stability, controls, transparency, and audit readiness. Balance experimentation with responsibility in a high-trust, high-impact environment. Adapt quickly as priorities change while maintaining long-term system integrity. Core Technical Skills 10–15 years of experience in application development or systems engineering within complex environments. Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with strong software engineering fundamentals. Hands-on experience building API-driven services using FastAPI, Pydantic, and/or Django.