Senior Data Engineer: Tick Data & ELT Platform

Aspect Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspect Capital, an award-winning systematic hedge fund based in London, is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Data Engineering team. The role involves developing ELT pipelines, building a streaming platform, and consolidating legacy systems. Candidates should have 5+ years in software or data engineering, strong Python and SQL skills, and ideally some financial industry experience.

This is a pivotal time for the team as they revamp data processing and enhance their technology stack. A passion for technology and continuous improvement is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer.
• Strong expertise in Python.
• Well-versed in SQL and good understanding of relational databases.
• Financial industry experience.
• Familiar with major financial data vendor APIs.

Responsibilities

• Developing ELT pipelines to ingest and transform datasets with Python, Snowflake and dbt.
• Building a streaming platform to capture and aggregate large volumes of tick data.
• Extending internal libraries to provide unified access to our entire data catalog.
• Consolidating legacy MATLAB systems onto our cloud-native technology stack.
• Working closely with quantitative developers, researchers and portfolio managers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Linux

Docker

Communication with technical and non-technical colleagues

Java

dbt

Snowflake

Kafka

AWS

Tools

Linux

Docker

Job description

Aspect Capital, an award-winning systematic hedge fund based in London, is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Data Engineering team. The role involves developing ELT pipelines, building a streaming platform, and consolidating legacy systems. Candidates should have 5+ years in software or data engineering, strong Python and SQL skills, and ideally some financial industry experience.

This is a pivotal time for the team as they revamp data processing and enhance their technology stack. A passion for technology and continuous improvement is essential.