Quant Platform Data Engineer - RealTime Pipelines & Quality

Winton; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Winton, a data-driven financial firm, is hiring a Data Engineer for the Quantitative Platform to build and maintain the data infrastructure powering research and live trading. You will manage end-to-end datasets from market, fundamental, and alternative sources, ensure cleaning, validation, storage, and delivery through robust pipelines.

Collaborate with researchers and technologists to uphold high data quality.

Qualifications

• Experience using Python in a business-critical environment.
• Commitment to engineering excellence and pragmatic technology solutions.
• Desire to work in an operational role at the heart of a data-centric enterprise.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating, onboarding, and integrating complex data products from diverse vendors, serving as a key technical liaison to ensure data feeds meet our stringent requirements for research and live trading.
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing robust, production-grade data pipelines to transform raw vendor data into analysis-ready datasets, adhering to software engineering best practices and ensuring seamless consumption by our automated trading systems.
• Engineering and maintaining sophisticated automated validation frameworks to guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of all datasets, directly upholding the quality standards essential for the efficacy of our quantitative strategies.
• Providing expert operational support for our data pipelines, rapidly diagnosing and resolving critical issues to ensure the uninterrupted flow of high-availability data powering our daily trading activities.
• Participating actively in team rotations, including on-call schedules, to provide essential coverage and maintain the resilience of our data systems outside of standard business hours.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

Team collaboration

On-call rotations

Communication skills

Tools

S3

Kafka

Airflow

Iceberg

Job description

Winton, a data-driven financial firm, is hiring a Data Engineer for the Quantitative Platform to build and maintain the data infrastructure powering research and live trading. You will manage end-to-end datasets from market, fundamental, and alternative sources, ensure cleaning, validation, storage, and delivery through robust pipelines.

Collaborate with researchers and technologists to uphold high data quality.