About the Role
This role is based within the technology product team aligned to the Systematic Fixed Income business area. Given the global spread of the combined technology and business teams, occasional flexibility around working hours will be expected to provide appropriate overlap with both UK and US working days. Industry experience within fixed income is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Work with the product owner and the business to develop and detail the product backlog in the form of Epics, Features and Stories.
- Help the business owners and teams to prioritise work.
- Act as the communication channel between product owners, business owners and the Agile delivery team.
- Contribute to the planning and execution of system and acceptance testing.
- Undertake JIT analysis and documentation to support the team’s sprint activities.
- Be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle across different business areas.
- Build and maintain a good working relationship with the business representatives, working across teams and multiple sites.
- Leads team retrospectives.
- Pro-actively removing blockers to maximise team productivity.
- Promotes a positive team culture.
- Identifies and implements ways to improve teamwork.
- Builds effective relationships throughout the organisation.
Requirements
- Skill in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets.
- Ability to use SQL in data investigation and independently investigate unfamiliar databases.
- Ability to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and solution delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to effectively communicate at a level and depth appropriate to the audience.
- Demonstrable experience of gathering requests and technical specifications.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban.
- Ability to review and advise on suitable changes to streamline processes, while identifying actual rather than perceived pain points.
- Participates in definition of cross-team initiatives for new processes / frameworks / architectures.
- Committed to and will take ownership for driving towards change initiative or solution.
- Will bring relevant teams together and leverage key stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
- A thirst for knowledge and curiosity to help solve complex problems with a keen eye for detail.
- A sense of personal responsibility and the drive to own problems, can work self-directed and independently to accomplish results.
- Provides assistance to other members of the team.
- Creates an environment where individuals are encouraged and supported to achieve their goals.
Skills
- SQL
- Agile delivery teams
- Scrum
- Kanban
Location
- London
- San Francisco, USA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs.
- Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management.
- Insight managed £631.9bn of assets as at 31 December 2025 across its core liability driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income and currency capabilities.
- Insight has a clear mission and purpose to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting investors’ chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility.
- Insight operates across the globe with a presence in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Japan and Australia; and is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY”) (NYSE:BK), the global financial services. company.
- The business employs over 1,100 people including 277 investment professionals.
- More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/
Equal Opportunity
- Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other factors protected by federal, state and/or local laws.
- 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 TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com
