Equities Data Engineer
$175,000–$200,000 year
On-site · Chicago, Illinois, United States or New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Equities Data Engineer to onboard, transform, and manage diverse financial datasets; collaborate with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to analyze equity and futures data, identify alphas, and develop global delta-one trading strategies. Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data; implement data quality frameworks and governance; develop observability and alerting tools; optimize storage across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments; ensure reproducibility of signals and backtests, and work with platform teams to productionize pipelines while meeting latency and availability requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Over five years of demonstrated experience designing ingestion pipelines
- Familiarity with equities, equity indices, futures, or delta one trading data preferred
- Experience processing real-time and batch financial market data
- Proven ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment and handle trading environment demands
- Strong understanding of financial point-in-time and time-series data and analysis
- Proven expertise in developing data quality control processes to detect gaps or inaccuracies
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for data pipelines
- Competent in both on-premise Linux systems and cloud platforms
- Proficient in automated testing, CI/CD practices, and MLOps
- Well-versed in compressed and optimized file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg
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