Senior Data Engineer, Proprietary Research

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical and Dental Insurances

Generous parental and family leave

Volunteer opportunities

Mental and physical wellness programs

Tuition assistance

Non-contributory pension

Job summary

Point72 Asset Management, L.P. is seeking a senior Data/Software Engineer to join the Market Intelligence team in London.

The role focuses on designing and delivering robust data pipelines, AI-ready datasets, and scalable backend services in a compliant, high-integrity environment. You will collaborate with investment professionals, researchers, and data scientists to implement end-to-end data solutions, leveraging Spark, Python, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of strong experience in Python development.
• Experience with system design and leading multi-person development efforts.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark.
• Experience with building scalable APIs, and software applications w/ focus on backend infrastructure.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services for data storage and compute (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with orchestration technologies like Airflow.
• Knowledge of/langChain or similar frameworks, embedding models, vector, graph databases is a plus.
• Strong drive to stay current with AI advancements and translate into practical applications.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and launch end-to-end business solutions including data pipelines, products, and tools.
• Develop big data processing pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and AI-ready data assets.
• Build reusable software components, libraries, and APIs for rapid experimentation and deployment.
• Implement data quality, lineage, and governance controls to ensure compliant datasets.
• Build scalable AI-native cloud infrastructure using distributed systems techniques.
• Optimize performance, cost, and reliability through benchmarking and iteration.

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Cloud platforms

APIs

LangChain/embedding models

Graph databases

Job description

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A Career with Point72's Market Intelligence team

On our proprietary research team—Market Intelligence— you will uncover insights about markets and the broader economy through deep compliant fundamental research and applying data science and engineering techniques to alternative data sets. In partnership with our investment professionals and Compliance team, our team of analysts, data scientists and engineers work together to produce compliant research and build tools that inform our firm’s investments. We look for other bright, motivated, and collaborative people to join our team and grow with us—a majority of the leaders in our group were promoted from within.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work closely with investment professionals, researchers, and data scientists to design, build, and launch robust end-to-end business solutions including data pipelines, products and tools.
• Design and develop big data processing pipelines including but not limited to ingestion, transformation, trends creation to deliver AI-ready data assets & products.
• Develop reusable software components, libraries, and APIs that enable rapid experimentation and production deployment
• Implement data quality, lineage, and governance controls to ensure datasets are reliable, auditable, and compliant with compliance policies
• Build scalable AI-native cloud-based infrastructure using distributed systems techniques, to deliver efficient data-driven business solutions
• Optimize performance, cost, and reliability of software systems through benchmarking and iterative improvements

WHAT’S REQUIRED

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or related field
• 2+ years of strong experience in Python development
• Experience with system design and leading multi-person development efforts
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark
• Experience with building scalable APIs, and software applications w/ focus on backend infrastructure
• Experience with cloud platforms and services for data storage and compute (for example AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure)
• Experience with orchestration technologies like Airflow
• Knowledge of/experience with langraph/langchain or similar frameworks, embedding models, vector, graph databases is a plus
• A strong drive to staying current with AI advancements and translating emerging techniques into practical, real-world applications.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Private Medical and Dental Insurances
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Mental and physical wellness programmes
• Tuition assistance
• Non-contributory pension and more

Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of colour and the LGBQT+ community

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/