Senior Data Engineer — Real-Time Market Data (Remote)

Keyrock; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 440,690 - 661,035; Full time

Job summary

Keyrock is building a cutting-edge Data Platform within the Central Data Team (CDT). You will help craft scalable data pipelines and governance to empower trading desks, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and research with real-time context.

You’ll drive streaming architectures, time-series data, and lakehouse design while collaborating with architecture, infra, and platform teams across the globe. This role is predominantly remote with hubs in major cities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Readable and maintainable code
• Strong understanding of data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads
• Emphasis on efficiency, quality, idempotency and observability

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting, normalising, and distributing market, trading, and portfolio data
• Develop self-serve tooling (SDKs, patterns, templates, AI agents) for data products
• Own data contracts and schema evolution; minimize multi-team coordination
• Design lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns
• Build Data Governance and Data Quality Framework: stale-feed detection, schema validation, range checks, idempotent writes, lineage
• Develop derived analytics: cross-exchange spreads, VWAP at depth, order book microstructure, portfolio views
• Prioritise observability, cost, and performance from day one
• Treat infrastructure as code with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD alongside Central Infrastructure Team
• Work openly and collaborate with Architecture, Infra, Platform and other teams

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Observability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Keyrock is building a cutting-edge Data Platform within the Central Data Team (CDT). You will help craft scalable data pipelines and governance to empower trading desks, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and research with real-time context.

You’ll drive streaming architectures, time-series data, and lakehouse design while collaborating with architecture, infra, and platform teams across the globe. This role is predominantly remote with hubs in major cities.