Data Engineer, MASS

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

Job summary

A diversified trading firm in London seeks a Data Engineer for its Multi-Asset Systematic Strategies team. You will manage diverse financial datasets, working closely with traders and researchers. The ideal candidate has over five years of experience in data ingestion pipelines, familiarity with trading data, and strong skills in cloud platforms. Join us to drive innovative trading strategies and ensure data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Over five years of demonstrated experience designing ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with equities, futures, or delta one trading data preferred.
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced trading environment.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data ingestion pipeline design

Financial market data processing

Agile environment experience

Data quality control

Cloud platform competency

Automated testing and CI/CD

Tools

Linux

Cloud platforms

Parquet

Iceberg

Job description

Overview

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three 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 across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy. We have expanded into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

About the Role

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 is 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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