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Lead Data Engineer - Multi Strategy Fund (London Area)

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
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Paragon are partnered with a global $12BN multi strategy hedge fund - focusing on event-driven, fixed-income, macro, and equity long and short strategies they have been a household name in the buy side space for close to 2 decades.


This client are hiring aLead Data Engineerfor a core team to take ownership of their core data platform, and build data pipelines to parse a broad range of financial data sets into the firm. The role will be interacting directly with trading desks as well and wider teams.


This is a senior seat, ideally looking for a hedge fund background and 8 years+ experience in a revelant role.


This will mean exposure to market data vendors, ability to communicate with traders and mentoring junior engineers.


Tech stack: Deep Python, Pandas, AWS, Airflow, Kubernetes, ETL, SQL


Please apply if this of interest!

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