Data Platform Lead — Real-Time Systems & Team Leadership

Eclipse Trading; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship and training opportunities

Fully stocked kitchen for breakfast/l"

Attractive benefits package with bonus

Job summary

Eclipse Trading is seeking an experienced Team Lead to head a newly formed Data Systems Team that will build Eclipse’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading. The role covers orchestration, storage, data access, and governance at scale, delivering reliable and scalable solutions across multiple datasets.

You will blend leadership with architecture and hands-on engineering to create robust, maintainable systems, working with engineers, researchers, and traders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as Data Systems Engineer delivering production data platforms.
• 2+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Deep data platform fundamentals: batch/streaming, metadata, object storage, SQL.
• Hands-on in scalable ingestion/orchestration workflows and reliable scheduling.
• Experience with modern data architectures balancing performance, reliability and cost.
• Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis mindset.
• Excellent stakeholder communication with roadmap ownership.
• Desirable: experience in quant trading or financial services.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performance Data Systems Team with mentoring and career development.
• Define and deliver Eclipse’s data platform roadmap aligning business and technical priorities.
• Design and implement a centralized data framework and supporting applications.
• Develop robust, maintainable, high-performing data pipelines.
• Drive performance optimizations for quant research and data retention.
• Manage and expand dedicated hardware infrastructure for data systems.
• Ensure reliability, uptime and capacity planning for data workloads.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders and engineers to align workflows with business needs.
• Standardize ingestion, schema management, lineage, permissions and audits.
• Investigate data sources, identify root causes and implement sustainable fixes.

Skills

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Batch processing

Streaming processing

SQL

Object storage

Architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

English fluency

Education

University degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

Eclipse Trading is seeking an experienced Team Lead to head a newly formed Data Systems Team that will build Eclipse’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading. The role covers orchestration, storage, data access, and governance at scale, delivering reliable and scalable solutions across multiple datasets.

You will blend leadership with architecture and hands-on engineering to create robust, maintainable systems, working with engineers, researchers, and traders.