Process Engineer - Investment Technology, Cape Town

About the team

Technology at Ninety One is a strategic pillar of the firm. Our vision is to enable Ninety One’s purpose through agility, data and modern engineering; ensuring our business remains competitive, scalable and insight-driven in a rapidly evolving environment. We design, build and operate the platforms, data foundations, infrastructure and ways of working that support our investment, distribution and operational capabilities globally. As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, our long-term success requires reimagining how work happens across Ninety One, shifting towards AI-centred ways of working and modern operational models optimised for automation, intelligence and scale.The Technology organization powers Ninety One through the full Investment lifecycle; from what we could invest in (Research), through selecting and managing the investments (Portfolio Management/Construction), executing in the market (Trading), monitoring (Risk and Performance) and reporting back to our Clients. All powered via our core Data-as-a-Service strategy and dynamic infrastructure. Data is at the core of all we do. We move, manipulate and surface data to many internal platforms and users using a wide variety of techniques, tools and platforms.We have a great opportunity to join our growing Investment Technology team, enabling better business outcomes across the entire Investment Technology stack and wider across the firm. You will work directly with the Product Owners and Front Office domain experts as well as cross collaborating with the other teams across Technology, Operations and Investments.In this role you will

Focus on what matters– using technology to enable Ninety One via our IT Strategy Utilise your brainpower and knowledge to analyse and design better processes providing precise, accurate and impactful outcomes across all asset types for our Investment teams and our Clients Be hands-on; this is an active role, you will be in the detail of our Investment Technology deliveries, you bridge the knowledge gap between Technologists and Investment professionalsProduce accurate Features (Agile) and Specs (spec-based development for AI) to drive new ways of working Work collaboratively across teams; keep stakeholder engagement high Work with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to deliver value iteratively in an Agile manner Engage in regular design, planning and architecture sessionsEnsure our Outcomes are clear, functional, measurable and deliver real value Use modern tooling to increase your breadth and depth of impact, to analyse data and build automations You should consider applying if you have

At least 3 years in Financial Services / Asset Management An understanding of how the Investment processes of an Asset Manager work, and a desire to modernise them An understanding of data and data flows (data and systems architecture) Exposure to modern tooling such as Python (or other programming languages) to reduce manual effort, derive insight from data and to enable the production of code via AI (spec-based development)Experience consuming from HTTP APIs (e.g. REST, GraphQL) as well as databases and files You want to work with interesting people and enjoy problem solving Some of the attributes we look for in a person are

The ability to‘approach and own’ and continuously look for opportunities to develop Driven by results Ability to recognise and embrace change Intellectual curiosity and strong desire to learn

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