Senior Data Engineer - Remote Real-Time Market Data Platform

Keyrock; Zug; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Keyrock is building a centralized Data Platform within its Central Data Team. You will contribute to major decisions and hands-on build-out of streaming and batch data pipelines, data contracts, and a lakehouse architecture to serve trading desks, wealth management, product, risk, and research.

We value engineers who can design for self-healing, idempotency, and observability while embracing an open, collaborative development culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL: understand engine behavior.
• Readable, maintainable code that others can test and delete later.
• Strong understanding of data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads.
• Design for efficiency, quality, idempotency, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting market and portfolio data, resilient to failures.
• Create self-serve tooling (SDKs, templates, AI agents) for data products.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution to avoid multi-team coordination chaos.
• Design lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns.
• Develop Data Governance and Data Quality Framework: validation, lineage, ownership.
• Develop analytics for business: cross-exchange spreads, VWAP, portfolio views.
• Prioritize observability, cost, and performance from day one.
• Treat infrastructure as code (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD) with Central Infra team.
• Collaborate openly with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Streaming systems

Observability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Kafka

ClickHouse

Job description

Keyrock is building a centralized Data Platform within its Central Data Team. You will contribute to major decisions and hands-on build-out of streaming and batch data pipelines, data contracts, and a lakehouse architecture to serve trading desks, wealth management, product, risk, and research.

We value engineers who can design for self-healing, idempotency, and observability while embracing an open, collaborative development culture.