Senior Data Engineer - Remote-First Market Data Platform

Keyrock; Milano; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Keyrock is expanding its Central Data Team and seeks a Senior Data Engineer to help build the Data Platform that serves traders, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and compliance. You’ll own streaming pipelines, data contracts, and governance while shaping the lakehouse strategy.

You will work on self-serve data tooling, data quality, and observability, with a remote-first approach and international collaboration across hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems that other people rely on.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL: not just writing a query, but understanding engine behavior.
• Readable and testable code that others can maintain.
• Strong understanding of data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads.
• Efficiency, quality, idempotency, and observability are defaults.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting market, trading, and portfolio data.
• Build self-serve tooling (SDKs, patterns, templates) for data product publishing.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution to avoid multi-team coordination bottlenecks.
• Design lakehouse and time-series layer around consumer query patterns.
• Develop Data Governance and Data Quality Framework (stale-feed detection, lineage, ownership).
• Create derived analytics for business decision-making (exposures, VWAP, etc.).
• Prioritize observability, cost, and performance from day one.
• Treat infrastructure as code (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD) with Central Infrastructure Team.
• Work openly; document decisions and partner with Architecture/Infrastructure/Platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Observability

Code quality

Tools

Kafka

Redpanda

MSK

Kinesis

ClickHouse

TimescaleDB

Job description

Keyrock is expanding its Central Data Team and seeks a Senior Data Engineer to help build the Data Platform that serves traders, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and compliance. You’ll own streaming pipelines, data contracts, and governance while shaping the lakehouse strategy.

You will work on self-serve data tooling, data quality, and observability, with a remote-first approach and international collaboration across hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore.