Data Platform Lead – Real-Time Analytics & Pipelines

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic environment

Direct impact

Mentorship

Flat structure

Work-life balance

Fully stocked kitchen

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Eclipse Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm, is seeking a Team Lead to head our Data Systems Team in Hong Kong. You will define the vision for a centralized data platform, drive orchestration, storage, and data access, and build infrastructure that scales for researchers and traders.

You will mentor engineers, partner with research, trading, and IT, and own the data roadmap. This is a high-impact role blending leadership with hands-on engineering to deliver robust, low-latency data

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Data Systems Engineer delivering production data platforms.
• 2+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performance Data Systems Team, mentoring and career development.
• Define and deliver data platform roadmap balancing business and technical priorities.
• Design and implement a centralized data framework and supporting applications.
• Develop robust, maintainable data pipelines.
• Drive performance optimizations across hardware and software for quant research and regulatory data retention.
• Manage and expand dedicated hardware infrastructure for data systems.
• Ensure reliability, uptime and capacity planning for data workloads.
• Partner with stakeholders across research, trading and engineering.
• Standardize ingestion, schema management, lineage, permissions, and audit processes.
• Investigate upstream data sources and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Data systems architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Hands-on engineering

Education

University degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Job description

Eclipse Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm, is seeking a Team Lead to head our Data Systems Team in Hong Kong. You will define the vision for a centralized data platform, drive orchestration, storage, and data access, and build infrastructure that scales for researchers and traders.

You will mentor engineers, partner with research, trading, and IT, and own the data roadmap. This is a high-impact role blending leadership with hands-on engineering to deliver robust, low-latency data