Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years' experience, and 2+ years in a Hedge Fund and/or in Systematic Trading Technology, sought by one of the original Quantitative Hedge Funds, with a 20+ year track-record.
The firm are renowned for a healthy, supportive, and collegiate working environment and culture, with no siloes, boasting an industry-leading staff tenure. You will join a 5-strong Data Engineering team in a Senior Individual Contributor capacity, working directly with Quant Researchers, Portfolio Managers and Traders, and designing and engineering the ingestion, storage, transformation and distribution of tick, timeseries, reference and alternative datasets. The technology stack spanson-premise and cloud infrastructure with technologies and tooling such as Python, dbt, KDB+, Snowflake, SQL, interfacing with Market Data vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset and MorningStar.
This is an exciting time for you to join the team they consolidate our technology estate, revamp how they process and filter data, and overhaul the way data is accessed by their consumers, while continuing to onboard new datasets that enhance their strategies. They are a lean team owning end-to-end delivery from initial design through to operational support in production.
Requirements
* 5+ years working as a Data Engineer with 2+ years in Financial Markets, especially in a Hedge Fund, Trading Firm, and/or working with Quant Trading Technology.
* Expertise in Python, including popular Python libraries for data wrangling, such as Pandas, NumPy, and SQLAlchemy.
* Experience working with traditional SQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).
* Experience with time-series data, and/or implementing data pipelines from major financial market data vendors (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset….)
* SDLC and DevOps: Git, Docker, Jenkins/TeamCity, monitoring, testing, agile practices.
* Passionate about code quality, data integrity, and building scalable and robust systems.
* Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
This hire has been budgeted at a salary of £130K, plus excellent benefits and company pension contributions, along with a healthy annual bonus and an opportunity to participate in their Management Incentive Scheme. Applicants must be able to work onsite in Central London 3 or more days per week.
This is an incredible opportunity to join a world-class firm and to forge a long-term career in a genuinely supportive and learning-focused working environment. Please apply below or contact - for more information.