Data Specialist

Jane Street Group, LLC; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street Group, LLC is seeking a Data Specialist to help us understand, improve, and maintain the data that fuels our trading. You will be embedded in an engineering team and work closely with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.

In this role you will analyze, onboard, validate and produce large data sets from multiple sources, collaborate with exchanges and vendors, and translate data needs into reliable software solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Programming experience in any language.
• Experience using SQL and relational databases.
• Attention to detail and organized with good communication.
• Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus.
• Prior finance data experience not required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, onboard, validate, and produce large data sets from multiple sources.
• Interface with exchanges and data vendors to raise and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with engineering, traders, and operations to understand requirements and improve software.
• Develop domain knowledge to interpret and consume data for business growth.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Programming

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

We're looking for a Data Specialist to help us understand, improve, and maintain the data that fuels our trading. You'll be embedded in an engineering team and will work closely with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.

Meeting the needs of these groups involves diverse types of work including analyzing, onboarding, validating, and producing large data sets from many different sources. You'll collaborate closely with your direct team and trading desks to understand requirements and improve our software. In this role, you will interface directly with exchanges and data vendors to raise, track, and resolve issues critical to our trading as well as develop deep domain knowledge to help interpret and consume our data, driving business growth in new areas.

About You

• Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Programming experience in any language
• Experience using SQL and relational databases
• Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
• Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus

While prior experience with financial data would be nice, we don’t expect you to have a finance background.

Base salary is $150,000 - $250,000. Base salary is only one part of Jane Street total compensation, which includes an annual discretionary bonus.

Jane Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer