Location: London, UK

A top-tier global trading firm is seeking a skilled Data Software Engineer to join its London-based Global Data Engineering team. In this role, you'll architect and implement a high-performance framework for modelling financial instruments, working with a complex ecosystem of financial and alternative datasets to drive strategic decision-making in low- to high-frequency trading.

Role Overview

As a key contributor to the data engineering team, you'll tackle some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of financial data and technology, including:

• Designing and deploying a scalable, high-throughput data model to unify financial instrument identifiers across vendors, markets, and timeframes.
• Building and optimizing data pipelines for global data ingestion, processing, and validation with Python
• Leveraging cloud technologies (e.g. S3) to handle massive datasets while maintaining performance standards.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide to align data solutions with trading objectives and technical requirements, ensuring consistency and precision in data handling.

Your Skill Set

• Advanced programming skills in Python, with an emphasis on performance and efficiency in data-heavy applications.
• Strong system design and data modelling expertise, ideally with financial instruments, allowing you to build robust, scalable data architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud storage and deployment, with experience handling large datasets at a global scale.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with engineering and trading teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions.

What's On Offer

• Market Leading Compensation: Bonus guarantee, sign on + extensive benefits
• Innovative Environment: Work in a team that values creativity, experimentation, and technical excellence
• Career Growth: Opportunities to lead technical initiatives and mentor emerging talent
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid working and a range of flexibility initiatives to support your well-being

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you would like more information, please contact:

Alex Betteridge

(+44)
in/alex-betteridge-08364453