Data Platform Engineer- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker | London, UK

Oxford Knight; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a data engineer in London to enhance their team's data handling methodologies. The role focuses on owning and improving data ingestion processes, maintaining distributed systems, and ensuring data quality. The ideal candidate will excel in coding and possess a strong background in relational databases and distributed architectures.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or C++.
• Solid background in distributed systems and relational databases.
• Comfortable with data analysis; knowledge of statistics or ML is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve automated data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Design and maintain distributed systems for reliable, scalable data access.
• Identify and fix data anomalies using statistical and algorithmic approaches.

Skills

Coding skills in a statically typed language

Data analysis

Proactive problem-solver

Tools

Distributed systems

Relational databases

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. Rather than chasing breadth, this team focuses on data depth: building a clean, unified, and intelligent data layer that underpins all major decisions across the business.

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

What You'll Do

• Own and improve automated data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Design and maintain distributed systems for reliable, scalable data access
• Identify and fix data anomalies using statistical and algorithmic approaches
• Collaborate directly with internal users 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 background in distributed systems and relational databases
• Comfortable with data analysis; knowledge of statistics or ML is a plus
• Proactive problem-solver with a deep sense of ownership

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you think you're a good match for the role and would like further info, please contact:

Ali Wilson
[e-mail]
([phone]
linkedin.com/in/alexander-wilson-050

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