Data Operations Engineer in Chicago

Job Description

We are working with a trading team in Chicago to search for Data Operations Engineers to handle a broad set of core data technologies, vital to the team's trading idea and profit making.

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What you'll do

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• Act as primary PoC for traders and their quant teams, providing platform operational support to data platforms.

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• Resolve issues relating to data freshness, quality and availability

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• Manage relationships with external vendors, ensuring reliability and accuracy of upstream data

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• Design build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines

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• Build and maintain high performance APIs in relation to market data and reference data, vital to trading success

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• Automate data quality validation, monitoring and detection frameworks

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What you need

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• 3+ years experience in Data Engineer, SRE, Data Ops or similar within a front office trader facing environment (IB is fine, but must be interfacing daily with traders)

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• Strong Python skills

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• Modern Lakehouse experience such as Delta Lake / Databricks / Snowflake

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• Exposure to market data on tradfi asset classes