Data Engineer

Kinect LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid time off

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Life insurance

Job summary

Kinect LLC is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in New York City with hybrid work options to design and scale data infrastructure for private markets. You will build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, model data for analytics, and ensure data quality and governance across multiple administrators and jurisdictions.

The role requires 7+ years of data engineering in financial services, advanced SQL and Python, and hands-on experience with Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional data engineering experience building and supporting production data pipelines.
• Financial markets data experience; private markets experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience designing dimensional data models.
• Strong Python development skills and experience with Spark, Pandas, or Polars.
• Experience with ETL/ELT orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS and/or Azure.
• Familiarity with dbt and version-controlled data transformation workflows.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, testing, and containerization.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with Kafka, data contracts, schema evolution, OpenShift, and private markets data normalization is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize data models supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest and normalize structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Translate private markets workflows such as capital calls, distributions, and co-investment activity into well-governed, reusable datasets.
• Implement data quality controls, monitoring, alerting, and validation processes.
• Partner with business users and development teams to define requirements and deliver accessible, reliable data solutions.
• Improve query performance, pipeline throughput, and data platform efficiency.
• Support data governance initiatives including documentation, lineage, cataloging, access controls, and golden-record ownership.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development efficiency and data-processing workflows.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python development

AI-assisted development tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Apache Airflow

dbt

Spark

Pandas/Polars

Git

CI/CD

Containerization

Kafka

OpenShift

Job description

Our client, a leading global investment management firm, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale the data infrastructure supporting its Private Markets business. This role will work closely with fund administration, operations, analytics, and technology teams to model, integrate, govern, and optimize complex investment data across multiple administrators, fund structures, and jurisdictions. The ideal candidate has strong data engineering experience within financial services and understands the challenges of working with operationally driven, non-standard investment data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize data models supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest and normalize structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Translate private markets workflows such as capital calls, distributions, and co-investment activity into well-governed, reusable datasets.
• Implement data quality controls, monitoring, alerting, and validation processes.
• Partner with business users and development teams to define requirements and deliver accessible, reliable data solutions.
• Improve query performance, pipeline throughput, and data platform efficiency.
• Support data governance initiatives including documentation, lineage, cataloging, access controls, and golden‑record ownership.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development efficiency and data-processing workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional data engineering experience building and supporting production data pipelines.
• Financial markets data experience; private markets experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience designing dimensional data models.
• Strong Python development skills and experience with data-processing frameworks such as Spark, Pandas, or Polars.
• Experience with ETL/ELT orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake and AWS and/or Azure.
• Familiarity with dbt and version‑controlled data transformation workflows.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, testing, and containerization.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with Kafka, data contracts, schema evolution, OpenShift, and private markets data normalization is preferred.

Technology Environment

• SQL, Python, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Spark, Pandas/Polars, dbt, AWS/Azure, Git, CI/CD, containerization, Kafka, and OpenShift.

Location

New York City – Hybrid, minimum two days per week in office.

Compensation

Compensation: $130,000–$170,000 annual base salary. Actual compensation will depend on factors including experience, qualifications, skills, education, and business needs.

Benefits

The position is also eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package that includes paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement benefits, life insurance, and other benefits for eligible employees.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Kinect and our client are equal opportunity employers. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, citizenship or immigration status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Kinect is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.