Trading Data Engineer - Hybrid (NYC/Chicago/London)

Intec Select Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Intec Select Limited is partnering with a leading proprietary trading firm to hire an experienced Data Engineer for their technology function in Chicago, NYC or London. This hybrid role focuses on building scalable data infrastructure to support options and delta-one trading strategies.

You will design and maintain data ingestion pipelines, onboard financial data from vendors, implement data quality controls, and collaborate with traders, researchers and engineers to enhance time-series datasets

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in Data Engineering, ideally in proprietary trading or financial markets.
• Strong Python skills and experience with the data science ecosystem.
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Good understanding of options, futures and derivatives, including market data requirements.
• Strong knowledge of financial time-series and point-in-time data.
• Experience with external data vendors and integrating datasets.
• Ability to implement data quality, validation and monitoring processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines and core trading datasets.
• Onboard, transform and integrate financial data from internal systems and external vendors.
• Build robust data quality controls to identify gaps and inconsistencies.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers and developers to support trading strategies and research initiatives.
• Develop and optimise historical, point-in-time and time-series datasets.
• Implement monitoring, observability and alerting solutions across data pipelines.
• Enhance data accessibility through efficient data structures and APIs.
• Support AI-driven initiatives through the annotation and enrichment of financial datasets.
• Excellent communication with trading, research and engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Data Pipelines

Financial Markets

Data Quality

Time-Series Data

Tools

SQL

Job description

Intec Select Limited is partnering with a leading proprietary trading firm to hire an experienced Data Engineer for their technology function in Chicago, NYC or London. This hybrid role focuses on building scalable data infrastructure to support options and delta-one trading strategies.

You will design and maintain data ingestion pipelines, onboard financial data from vendors, implement data quality controls, and collaborate with traders, researchers and engineers to enhance time-series datasets