Senior Data Engineer

Belvedere Trading, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Benefits package

Job summary

Belvedere Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work directly with trading desks to improve trading performance through robust data solutions.

You will design scalable data architectures, implement ETL pipelines, ensure data quality, and communicate across teams to translate analytic needs into reliable systems that support timely trading decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing big data warehouses and ETL pipelines.
• Proven knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Navigate and integrate data across RDBMS, NoSQL, and Time Series.
• Experience with real-time messaging systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar) and stream processing (Flink or Spark).
• Craft high-performance BigQuery queries and optimize for scale.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand analytic needs to improve trading performance with traders.
• Design and maintain a modular data architecture to facilitate and scale future analysis.
• Ensure high data quality for all analytical trading datasets.
• Enforce data and visual standards, including modular design, testing, and documentation.
• Ensure technical solutions are simple and scalable for future use cases.
• Collaborate with on-desk staff and teammates to translate requirements into robust data solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Data integration

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Pulsar

Flink

Spark

NoSQL

Time Series

Job description

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn't be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions.

High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.

Belvedere Trading is looking for a proven Senior Data Engineer to work directly with our trading desks to improve trading performance. This role will be instrumental in ensuring data availability, breadth, and reliability to make better trading decisions. A Senior Data Engineer will work directly with on-desk staff to architect robust and scalable analytical solutions.

Our Data Engineers are responsible for data services, including ETL pipeline implementation, data warehouse architecture, data quality automation, and analytic visualization. We expect a Senior Data Engineer to need minimal guidance on architecture best practices and to communicate clearly to stakeholders across the organization.

Team Belvedere is an environment where you will solve challenging problems that result from petabytes of high-fidelity data. We incrementally add value to our trading desk and, at the same time, design long-term architectures to scale. We seek someone passionate about data and who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

• Work with our traders to understand analytic needs to improve trading performance.
• Design and maintain a modular data architecture to facilitate and scale future analysis.
• Ensure high data quality for all analytical trading datasets.
• Hold other team members to data standards, including modular design, testing, and documentation.
• Hold other team members to visual standards, including modular design, testing, and documentation.
• Ensure technical solutions are simple and scale well for future use cases.

What You'll Need

• Experience designing and developing big data warehouses and ETL pipelines.
• Proven knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and integrate data across multiple data platforms, including RDBMS, NoSQL, and Time Series.
• Experience with real time messaging systems, such as Kafka, Kinesis, and Pulsar, and with developing a stream processing framework, such as Flink or Spark, a plus.
• Proficiency in crafting high-performance BigQuery queries, optimizing for efficiency and scalability to handle large datasets effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

$150,000 - $200,000 a year

Additionally, certain positions at Belvedere Trading are eligible for discretionary bonuses. Our employees have access to a variety of benefits, which can be found on our website here .

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.

We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer.

We welcome your application.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.

Compliance

For our trading positions and certain engineering roles, the SIE and Series 57 licenses are required; Belvedere Trading will provide comprehensive study materials and allocate dedicated time during the onboarding process to ensure your success in obtaining these certifications.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.

Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected] .

Work Schedule

Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours with the ability to be on-site prior to the start of business on occasion

Amount of Travel Required

None

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.