Overview
Ocho is delighted to be working on behalf of our client to appoint a Data Engineer to support critical Market Abuse and Communications Surveillance systems.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations, ensuring that structured and unstructured data flows are reliable, scalable and compliant. You will be responsible for building and optimising data pipelines that ingest trade, pre-trade, reference, market and communications data, ensuring completeness, accuracy and regulatory alignment across surveillance platforms.
You will also contribute to wider surveillance data initiatives, including persisting alerts into the firm's data lake to support analytics and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and optimise end-to-end data pipelines from source systems to surveillance platforms and data lake environments
Implement automated data quality, completeness and reconciliation controls to ensure accuracy and transparency
Identify critical data elements and implement failover and recovery strategies across key data flows
Build and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches
Develop unit, integration and infrastructure tests
Monitor, investigate and resolve data anomalies in collaboration with analysts, developers and business stakeholders
Implement data governance, lineage, auditability and retention controls across pipelines
Ensure all data processing aligns with regulatory, legal and security requirements
Work closely with surveillance analysts and compliance teams to translate business rules into robust technical solutions
Collaborate with cloud and data infrastructure teams to optimise performance and cost efficiency
Contribute to continuous improvement by adopting emerging technologies and best practice
The Person We Are Looking For
Strong experience designing, implementing and maintaining ETL or ELT pipelines within financial services environments
Experience working with trade, order or financial messaging platforms
Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery practices
Hands-on experience within the AWS ecosystem including container services, serverless technologies, storage and orchestration services
Proficiency in Python or Java, strong SQL capability and experience with modern data pipeline frameworks
Experience with streaming technologies and API integrations
Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and regulatory compliance within financial services
Experience with monitoring and observability practices
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable working in fast-paced environments
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable Experience
Experience with event-driven architectures and market data ingestion
Infrastructure-as-code experience
Exposure to business communications platforms
Understanding of financial markets and trading platforms
Experience with data catalogue, analytics or DevOps tooling
Relevant cloud or DataOps certifications
Apply here or reach out to Aaron Somers at Ocho for more information