05 Mar
Data Engineer
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Job Title: Data EngineerLocation: New York, NY / Austin, TXDuration: Contract/ Permanent Full Time Responsibilities
- Communicate with quantitative researchers and other end-users to understand their requirements and potential future requests
- Investigate vendor data thoroughly to become a subject matter expert on its characteristics and irregularities
- Develop ETL processing components using cutting edge technologies, and write robust tests for on-going quality control
- Support developed transformations and ETL frameworks in production trading as well as backtest research
- Build flexible data API components in iterations with research peers to ensure their needs are met
- Optimize data IO and load balancing for distributed, grid computation
- Strong programming skills, preference for Python, Java is a plus
- Experience with the scientific Python stack, Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Matplotlib
- Ability to find practical solutions and successfully make trade-offs between long-term goals and short-term deliverables
- Ability to troubleshoot difficult problems, both numerically and technically
- Proficient with SQL, experience with Postgres is a plus
- Experience with Hadoop, Spark, and Docker is a plus
- Analyze a variety of large data sets to develop and implement alpha signals
- Computer Science/Math or similar degree
- 2-5 years of professional experience, ideally exposure to work with complex data sets and all stages of cleaning, preparing data to be used in specific format
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