Data Engineer, MASS

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3 months ago
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Overview

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join the Multi-Asset Systematic Strategies (MASS) trading team. In this role, you will be responsible for onboarding, transforming, and managing diverse financial datasets. You will collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to analyze equity and futures data, identify alphas, and develop global delta-one trading strategies.

Responsibilities
  • Partner with traders, researchers, and analysts to deliver well-structured data that powers trading strategies, predictive models, and AI/ML applications.
  • Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data that feed into medallion architectures.
  • Develop observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to provide complete visibility into pipeline reliability and performance.
  • Optimize tiered data storage and elastic processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Enforce data governance, controls, and security standards to preserve confidentiality and operational integrity.
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.

Privacy notices: For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice. California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.

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