Analytics Platform Engineer – Data Infrastructure

The Voleon Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics to own the analytics platform design, pipelines, and data schemas critical to research velocity. You will drive reliability and champion scalable, observable analytics across strategies.

You will collaborate with data scientists, researchers, and data infrastructure teams to ensure robust, queryable datasets and reproducible workflows while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure.
• Strong data modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations.
• Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles.

Responsibilities

• Own implementation and on-going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements.
• Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows.
• Drive cross-team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs.
• Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation.
• Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks) adopted across analytics pipelines.
• Improve transparency and usability through documentation, discoverability, and clear data contracts.
• Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design data layouts (partitioning, file sizing) for columnar storage.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and raise the bar for operational and modeling rigor.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed compute

Data modeling

Metadata management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Airflow

AWS

Slurm

Unix

Job description

The Voleon Group is seeking a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics to own the analytics platform design, pipelines, and data schemas critical to research velocity. You will drive reliability and champion scalable, observable analytics across strategies.

You will collaborate with data scientists, researchers, and data infrastructure teams to ensure robust, queryable datasets and reproducible workflows while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.