Senior Data Research Engineer

Salt has partnered with the world leading capital markets firm that is looking for a Senior Data Research Engineer. Join the company combining deep trading acumen with cutting-edge analytics and technology to be able to shape the global markets of tomorrow.

As a Senior Data Research Engineer you will be responsible for the curation of large-scale structured and unstructured data and for data assimilation across a multitude of sources. You will be focusing on the translation of high-level conceptual queries to efficient back-end queries on extremely large-scale data collections.

Responsibilities:

• Act as data owner of several datasets each with its own unique schema and delivery frequency;
• Partner with researchers to produce high-value datasets;
• Design, create, automate, and maintain custom data pipelines;
• Extract the raw data, clean and normalize the data;
• Translate high-level market research concepts into scalable processes that further transform the data;
• Develop high-performance schemas and queries;
• Load the processed dataset to a format easily digested by quantitative researchers and models;
• Setup analytical infrastructure to facilitate exploration and visualization of datasets;
• Large scale cloud development of applications as a service

What makes you a good fit:

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience driving meaningful business outcomes through data engineering;
• Prior ownership of a data project (or at least a large part of it);
• Good analytical and quantitative abilities;
• End-to end experience with building ETL data pipelines from scratch;

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with data manipulation and query design and optimization;
• Experience in time series forecasting and machine learning techniques;
• Strong data science skills;
• Strong coding skills: proficiency in Python, SQL DBs, Cloud, schedulers, containers, CI/CD, software packaging

If you believe you are a great fit for the position, then don’t hesitate to apply & we will be in touch with you shortly. Alternatively, you can reach out to Svitlana Kapush on 0492150189 for a discussion.

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Salt acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia as the continuing custodians of country and culture. We pay our respects to all First Nations Australians and their Elders past and present.