Data Engineer Lead - Multi-strategies Hedge Fund

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building, maintaining and improving the acquisition and monitoring data platform
• Lead and mentor a team for acquisition, cleaning, organisation, analysis, and delivery of data to downstream systems and users.
• Develop and implement tools to provide autonomy around the platforms data life-cycle
• Maintain an inventory of the data estate
• Implement the control workflow for representing data events
• Work with the investment team, research, operations, risk to ensure their data-related requirements are captured and delivered
• Liaise with external vendors confidently and assist in vendor audit and compliance reporting

Requirements

• Master of Computer Science or Data Science; strong candidates with Bachelor of Science degrees will also be considered.
• At least 6 years experience for data analyst role or relevant data experience in either a financial institution or data vendor
• Experience working with large datasets, historic and real-time streaming data
• Strong background in financial markets and associated data sets i.e. market data, reference data
• Must have a working understanding of data engineering practices
• Strong numerical and analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Working with structured, semi-structure, and un-structured datasets
• Experienced in Python, data analysis packages such as Pandas and NumPy
• Experienced with both RDBMS and NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, MSSQL, and MySQL
• Knowledge of column-based data storage technologies such as Timescale or Influx

To apply, please send your updated CV to Matthew@aptitudeasia.com. Thanks.