Research Data Expert - Featurized Data for Alpha

Hudson River Trading; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Hudson River Trading (HRT) seeks a Research Data Expert to join our Data team. You will own a specific data domain, source and prepare fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling researchers, and collaborate with alpha researchers to improve trading strategies.

You will mentor junior data engineers, manage end-to-end data pipelines from vendor ingestion to delivery, implement data quality checks, and work with sourcing to identify new data opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a specific data domain (e.g., alternative data, fundamentals, security reference, or economic data).
• Proven track record of building alpha via detailed data analysis.
• Strong programming skills in Python/R and data science methods.
• Undergraduate STEM degree.
• Exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling research.
• Serve as subject matter expert for a designated data domain.
• Provide guidance to researchers on vendor data and derived datasets.
• Mentor and direct junior data engineers, including code and data output validation.
• Partner with the sourcing team to identify and evaluate new data procurement opportunities.
• Analyze data to identify and improve alpha.
• Manage the full end-to-end data pipeline from raw ingestion to refined features.
• Provide on-call support for data issues during normal business hours.
• Design and implement automated data quality checks and monitoring alerts.

Skills

Python

R

Data science

Attention to detail

Mentoring

Education

Undergraduate STEM degree

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) seeks a Research Data Expert to join our Data team. You will own a specific data domain, source and prepare fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling researchers, and collaborate with alpha researchers to improve trading strategies.

You will mentor junior data engineers, manage end-to-end data pipelines from vendor ingestion to delivery, implement data quality checks, and work with sourcing to identify new data opportunities.