Finance Data Analyst: Market Data & Insights

drweng; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group medical

Dental and vision insurance

401k with discretionary match

Short and long-term disability

Life and AD&D insurance

Health savings accounts

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

DRW in Chicago is seeking a data engineer to analyze new datasets, profile content, and surface insights for data strategists and front-office stakeholders. You will curate data catalog entries so assets are easily discoverable and ready for analysis.

You will monitor data quality across completeness, validity, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency, collaborate with global teams, resolve production issues, and help improve data processes and governance.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of relevant experience.
• Strong foundational knowledge of financial instruments and market data symbology.
• Proficiency with SQL and Python for exploratory data analysis (PySpark, pandas, numpy, Jupyter Notebooks).
• Ability to document and clearly explain complex data analysis findings.
• Exceptional attention to detail and effective communication skills.
• Ability to think both independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Analyze new datasets to profile their content, identify collection and storage requirements for data engineering teams and proactively surface insights about the datasets for data strategists and front-office stakeholders.
• Collect metrics and analyze datasets across different dimensions of data quality including completeness, validity, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
• Curate data catalog entries to ensure our research data assets are accurately represented and easily discoverable.
• Engage with global front office research teams to support datasets throughout their lifecycle, addressing content inquiries and managing communications with external data vendors.
• Monitor and resolve production data issues while engaging key stakeholders across multiple teams and facilitating global support.
• Assist the wider team by identifying opportunities to improve existing datasets and data management processes.

Skills

SQL

Python

Financial instruments knowledge

Data storytelling

Tools

PySpark

pandas

numpy

Jupyter Notebooks

Git

Linux

Bash scripting

Airflow

AWS Athena

Amazon S3

Bloomberg Terminal

Job description

DRW in Chicago is seeking a data engineer to analyze new datasets, profile content, and surface insights for data strategists and front-office stakeholders. You will curate data catalog entries so assets are easily discoverable and ready for analysis.

You will monitor data quality across completeness, validity, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency, collaborate with global teams, resolve production issues, and help improve data processes and governance.