***Company has experienced consistent growth adding 20% to their headcount each year!***
We are seeking a talented data specialist to join a highly motivated and innovative Data Engineering team, your efforts will be critical to the success of the companylobal trading businesses. You will be responsible for the following:
-Curate massive amounts of data for thousands of different tradable instruments, including stocks, bonds, futures, contracts, commodities, and more.
-Perform manual steps and develop programs and processes to ensure the completeness and integrity of financial reference datasets.
-Collaborate with team members to design and develop reliable data pipelines that produce high quality datasets.
-Help drive continuous improvements to data quality procedures and a consistent approach to how data quality is measured, monitored and reported.
-Create systematic and automated processes and tools that allow the team to scale and rapidly onboard new datasets.
-Be part of a team to support the data used by production trading algorithms.
Basic Qualifications: -A bacheloregree with a strong academic record, which includes university coursework in programming and computing systems.
-Prior professional experience in an environment that prioritized data quality.
-Experience in UNIX/Linux and Windows environments.
-An understanding of the software development process and exposure to hands-on coding in a professional environment.
-Experience with SQL and working with a relational database system, such as Microsoft SQL Server.
-Proven problem-solving and analytical abilities including pattern detection, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
-Strong communication skills.
-Able to work in an evolving and fast-paced environment and adjust to multiple priorities and timelines.
Preferred Qualifications: -While financial industry experience is a plus, we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology and data.
-Experience with Python (and/or Java).
-An understanding of how to design and develop effective data quality tests and measures.
-Relevant experience in data operations, with proven process improvement skills.
-Experience documenting business processes and workflows.
*Bachelornd/or Masteregree from a top computer science program preferred. Prefer degrees from Rice University, University of Texas-Austin, Texas A&M, University of Houston, Texas Tech University, University of Georgia, University of Virginia, Duke University. Also, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Princeton University, University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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