Contract Python Data Engineer – Hedge Fund
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you will work as a Python Data Engineer for a prominent hedge fund, shaping data pipelines and analytics in a high-performance, technology-driven environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ingest and unify internal and external data, ensuring reliable, scalable data flows. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge open-source tech and to contribute to a rigorous, engineering-led culture. You will be supported by smart colleagues and have room to think and influence data infrastructure.
Responsibilities- Support and monitor end-to-end data lifecycle, fix issues, and extend functionality
- Assist ingestion and integration of external data with internal systems
- Independently manage code repositories, docs, and workflows across multiple teams
- Communicate data formats and transformations with consumers and external providers
- 2:1 degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry (UK or EU)
- approximately 15 years experience in a Fund or Bank
- Strong AWS experience
- Derivatives experience
- Experience of Market Data Flows
- Python
- Airflow
- Bloomberg
- Experience in Trading or Investment management
- Understanding of computing fundamentals, OOP, threading, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Effective communication
- Ability to collaborate across teams
- Problem-solving mindset
- Python
- Airflow
- Bloomberg
Reference: WJ-747_30145627