Senior Lead Data Engineer

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Engineering Organization & Culture

At Bullish we are engineering the institutional standard for the digital asset industry. Our mission is to build a platform where security and compliance are the foundational core requiring a commitment to technical excellence that goes beyond simply delivering code. We operate as a global engineering organization setting a high bar in a demanding environment for those driven to do the best work of their careers alongside world-class peers.

We value engineers who treat development as a craft and own the outcome from concept to deployment. You will be expected to navigate the unknown bring structure to ambiguity and help shape the frameworks and processes that drive our global teams forward. We refuse to compromise on quality and seek problem solvers who thrive on high-impact technical challenges.

The Team: Data Engineering

The Data Platform team powers trading insights compliance reporting and Business Intelligence across the organisation.

The Role

A senior individual contributor who will own and evolve our Data Platform end-to-end designing scalable pipelines championing modelling standards and driving architecture and tooling decisions. Youll partner closely with our AI/ML team to ensure high-quality well-governed data fuels intelligent products.

What Youll Do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to decompose ambiguous problems into tested data solutions.

• Own our medallion architecture (bronze silver gold) ensuring quality at every layer.

• Develop dbt models tests and docs serving cross-functional stakeholders.

• Drive modelling decisions dimensional models snapshots SCDs across Exchange and Market Data.

• Design and maintain production data pipelines using Apache Airflow.

• Improve pipeline observability alerting and SLA monitoring; champion reliability practices.

• Mentor engineers via design reviews pairing and documentation.

• Evaluate new tools or patterns (streaming real-time views) where they add value.

• Collaborate with the teams AI specialists to deliver AI-driven Data Platform capabilities.

What You Bring

• 6 years in Data Engineering with 2 years in a senior or lead capacity.

• Pragmatic problem-solver you set direction unblock others and make trade-offs.

• Strong communicator can whiteboard architecture and narrate data stories alike.

• Deep expertise in SQL Python and modern tooling (dbt Airflow BigQuery or equiv.).

• Strong data modelling fundamentals you think in schemas grain and lineage first.

• Production GCP experience (BigQuery GCS GKE IAM) or comparable cloud platforms.

• Solid grasp of Kubernetes concepts (pods Helm charts resource management).

Nice to Have

• Experience in crypto digital assets or exchange platforms order books market data.

• Familiarity with streaming frameworks (Kafka Pub/Sub Flink) and real-time patterns.

• Exposure to Data Governance or privacy frameworks in regulated finance.

• Experience building Conversational Analytics RAG or MCP-based AI tools.

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ACCOMMODATION

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