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Senior Data Engineer

Oxford Knight
London
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Summary

Leading global quant firm is looking for a pragmatic data engineer with experience of ETL/ELT pipelines to join the Vendor Data Group. Despite serving as the hub for managing the substantial operations across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, the London office retains a lively, positive environment of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.


You will be joining a very dynamic environment offering exposure to all aspects of the firm, as you collaborate with one of the trading teams to build and maintain mission-critical data integration pipelines and associated tools for alternative commodity and macro data. You’ll develop scalable data architectures and enhance data processing while optimizing workflows.


Here, technology is viewed as crucial to their continued success. The successful Senior Data Engineer will be passionate about data accuracy, and able to solve difficult technical problems in a real-time environment.


Requirements

At least 3+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer


Proficient in Python development, Devops, and Linux environments
Expert-level experience in data pipeline development, specifically ETL/ELT pipelines
Familiarity with data analytics tools and libraries, e.g. Pandas and NumPy

Preferred

Commodities and Macro alternative/fundamental data experience


Skilled with relational and non-relational database management

Benefits

Competitive base salary & bonus


Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes

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.

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