Senior Core Data Engineer - Real Time
Senior Core Data Engineer - Real Time
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Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Core Data Engineer with a distinct focus on real-time analytics this role you will be responsible for owning the end-to-end lifecycle of our most critical data products that bring low-latency analytical capabilities to end users. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.
You will be the architect and executor of the blueprint for these real-time data products enhancing our Data Platform to develop and monitor automated pipelines. Your goal is to ensure that stakeholders across the organization have immediate access to reliable data whenever it is needed. You will further become an expert in these dynamic data setsdrawing from sources such as market data network traffic and application logsto optimize their use and explore additional sources for unlocking value in real time.
As the steward of our most vital real-time data products you will be uniquely positioned to influence Flow Traders operations. Your accountability will lie in delivering these data products at exceptional qualitywith a focus on low latencyto drive future growth. Ultimately your work will provide substantial real-time benefits felt across all divisions daily laying one of the most crucial foundations for the firms strategic expansion in the years ahead.
What you will do:
- Be accountable for timely and high-quality delivery of core data products to the rest of the organization: Market Data Trades/Orders/Quotes/Inquiries Application Logs with a specific focus on low-latency analytics
- Develop and own the end-to-end lifecycle of these data products: build and maintain pipelines develop quality checks correct day-to-day issues and systematize/automate manual processing steps
- Define and manage project plans to assume ownership of these data products
- Create and refine a common processing model (esp. fast vs slow path use of alternative T3 solutions) across these data products
- Investigate currently available sources of data and ensure that Flow extracts maximum information and value from them
- Explore evaluate and onboard additional sources of available data (both independently and at the request of stakeholders)
- Work closely with other teams to: automate existing workflows develop real-time capabilities as platform offering ensure pipelines leverage standard Flow technologies provide guidance on data-related architecture/design topics ensure licensing and access control are appropriate
What you need to succeed:
- Organized with strong attention to detail and quality
- Innately driven to generalize systematize and automate
- Strong interpersonal skills works very well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to balance individual stakeholder requirements in order to preserve quality and wide applicability of data
- Ability to define manage and execute projects (often several in parallel) while effectively triaging operational concerns
- Primarily technical but domain-literate (exchange market data network traffic data security reference/pricing data ETF compositions application log data; should not be solely exposed to Flow conventions)
- Domain expertise a huge plus (but not strictly necessary)
- Excellent programming skills (any language Python preferred)
- Working proficiency with Linux SQL and relational databases and version control systems
- Proven experience with real-time OLAP databases like ClickHouse Apache Pinot StarRocks required
- Experience with Airflow Kafka and GCP (esp. GKE Dataproc and Big Query) highly desired
- Experience with Pandas Spark Apache Beam Apache NiFi a plus
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes and any other information identifying potential candidates submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
