Data Engineer, MASS

DRW Holdings, LLC.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading firm in London is seeking an experienced Data Engineer. You'll be responsible for onboarding and managing diverse financial datasets while collaborating closely with traders and researchers. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in data ingestion pipelines and a strong understanding of financial data analysis. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced trading environment.

Qualifications

• Over five years of experience designing ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with equities, equity indices, or futures data preferred.
• Experience with real-time and batch financial market data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with traders and analysts to deliver structured data.
• Build and maintain pipelines for cleaning and transforming data.
• Develop monitoring and alerting tools for pipeline performance.

Skills

Data ingestion pipelines

Financial analysis

Monitoring and observability systems

CI/CD practices

MLOps

Tools

Linux on-premise systems

Cloud platforms

Parquet

Iceberg

Job description

Overview

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join the Multi-Asset Systematic Strategies (MASS) trading team. In this role, you will be responsible for onboarding, transforming, and managing diverse financial datasets. You will collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to analyze equity and futures data, identify alphas, and develop global delta-one trading strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with traders, researchers, and analysts to deliver well-structured data that powers trading strategies, predictive models, and AI/ML applications.
• Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data that feed into medallion architectures.
• Develop observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to provide complete visibility into pipeline reliability and performance.
• Optimize tiered data storage and elastic processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Enforce data governance, controls, and security standards to preserve confidentiality and operational integrity.

Qualifications

• Over five years of demonstrated experience designing ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with equities, equity indices, futures, or delta one trading data preferred.
• Experience processing real-time and batch financial market data.
• Proven ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment and handle trading environment demands.
• Strong understanding of financial point-in-time and time-series data and analysis.
• Proven expertise in developing data quality control processes to detect gaps or inaccuracies.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for data pipelines.
• Competent in both on-premise Linux systems and cloud platforms.
• Proficient in automated testing, CI/CD practices, and MLOps.
• Well-versed in compressed and optimized file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg.

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