Data Engineering Tech Lead

The Data Engineering Tech Lead position centres on a very hands-on tech lead, you’ll be building a new system for processing and managing daily data that is used company-wide (including corporate actions, fundamentals, and index me. It would suit someone who can bring reliability, clear communication, and practical judgement to the role.

What the work leans on

As the owner of the firm’s daily data, you will be expected to anticipate the business’s needs so that the normalised data schema is minimal yet sufficient. Fantastic opportunity for an experienced engineer to lead a brand-new data engineering team at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm.

Where the technical work sits

• A very hands-on tech lead, you’ll be building a new system for processing and managing daily data that is used company-wide (including corporate actions, fundamentals, and index me.
• Your focus will be collating the data most critical to the business, now and in the future, to ensure there is a singular, clean, easy-to-access & well-integrated data repository.

Technical requirements

• Several years of experience working with financial data; knowledge of the subtleties of corporate actions will be crucial.
• Ensure sufficiently clean data, and some knowledge of statistics/basic ML would be highly beneficial.
• This firm uses Go for much of their software – prior Go experience is not necessary (but you must be be willing to learn and integrate with the existing software stack as necessary.

What helps delivery stay steady

careful practical judgement. Strong professional approach. Strong and confident programmer in Java, C++, Go, or other statically typed language.

Practical details

• Outstanding benefits, including Onsite gym/sauna/fitness classes, extensive medical cover, and excellent professional development opportunities.
• Autonomy to work in the manner and using the software & hardware that you see fit.
• Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.
• You are making a direct impact on the PnL.