Data Platform Engineer- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker

London, United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A data-centric role in London focusing on enhancing automated pipelines and ensuring data quality within a small, engineering-centric team. Candidates should have strong coding skills and experience with distributed systems to support critical business decisions. This position emphasizes ownership and design of robust data structures.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or C++ required.
• Experience with distributed systems and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance automated data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Design and maintain distributed systems for reliable data access.
• Identify and resolve data anomalies using algorithmic methods.

Skills

Coding skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Job description

Location: London

About the Role

Join a small, high-impact team responsible for the firm's most critical datasets, including corporate actions, fundamentals, and index membership data. This team emphasizes data depth over breadth, focusing on building a clean, unified, and intelligent data layer that supports all major business decisions.

We develop distributed pipelines to ingest, clean, and expose daily datasets to internal teams. This is an engineering-centric team with high autonomy, ideal for someone who enjoys taking ownership of data quality, system design, and automation.

What You'll Do

• Own and enhance automated data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Design and maintain distributed systems for reliable, scalable data access
• Identify and resolve data anomalies using statistical and algorithmic methods
• Collaborate with internal teams across research, trading, and operations
• Anticipate future data needs and help evolve a minimal, robust data schema

Hard Requirements

• Strong coding skills in a statically typed language (e.g., Go, Java, C++)
• Solid experience with distributed systems and relational databases
• Comfortable with data analysis; knowledge of statistics or machine learning is a plus
• Proactive problem solver with a strong sense of ownership

We review all applications carefully, but due to high volume, we cannot respond to unsuccessful applicants.

Contact

If you are interested and believe you are a good fit, please contact:

Ali Wilson

Email: [e-mail]

Phone: [phone]

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexander-wilson-050

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