Senior Research Data Expert - End-to-End Alpha Pipelines

Hudson River Trading; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Research Data Expert to join our Data team. Data is the cornerstone of HRT's trading strategies, powering research, automated trading, and risk management.

You will own a specific area of expertise, sourcing junior data engineers, platform engineers, and alpha researchers to build and maintain trading strategies, and provide fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling researchers.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python and R.
• Experience with data science methodologies and statistical thinking.
• Undergraduate degree in a STEM field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling research.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for a designated data domain.
• Provide technical guidance to researchers on vendor data and derived datasets.
• Mentor and direct junior data engineers, including code and data output validation.
• Partner with the sourcing team to identify new data procurement opportunities.
• Analyze data to identify and improve alpha.
• Manage the full end-to-end data pipeline from ingestion to refined feature sets.
• Provide on-call support for data issues during business hours.
• Design and implement automated data quality checks and monitoring alerts.

Skills

Python

R

Data science methods

Attention to detail

Alpha development

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Research Data Expert to join our Data team. Data is the cornerstone of HRT's trading strategies, powering research, automated trading, and risk management.

You will own a specific area of expertise, sourcing junior data engineers, platform engineers, and alpha researchers to build and maintain trading strategies, and provide fully featurized datasets for statistical modeling researchers.