We are working with a global hedge fund who are looking for a Software Engineer/Python Developer with a background in Python and data pipelines to join their team in London. Ideal candidates will have experience in investment banking or the buyside. A degree in Computer Science or similar with at least a 2:1 is required. Candidates with a background in data within software engineering, such as experience with ETL processes, are highly desirable.
Comp: £150k - £200k TC
Hybrid position: 3 days a week in the office
Key Responsibilities:
- Design data pipelines for the data strategy and sourcing team
- Capture real time data
- Ingest, evaluate and create valuable data assets, by engaging with vendors/teams
- Apply robust data quality rules
- Enrich central data catalogue
Ideal Candidate:
- 4 years+ experience with Python
- Real time data streaming and capturing (Kafka, FIX protocol, Amazon Kinesis)
- SQL and/or time-series database technologies
- Financial and alternative data sets
- Data modelling, warehousing, building data pipelining
- FTP, API, S3 and other distribution channels to source data
- Exp with parquet files and PySpark (preferred)
- Exp with market tick data (preferred)
