1189: Database Engineer

Database Engineer will play an integral role in managing various datasets used by Traders and Quantitative Researchers to analyze financial markets, determine trading opportunities, and establish trading strategies.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with Traders and Researchers to determine appropriate data sources, and implement processes to onboard and manage new data sources for analysis to unlock future trading opportunities.

Help Govern/manage the data storage and data used for research and analysis by the various trading teams globally.

Design and Develop data analysis tools to enable Portfolio Managers and Traders to optimize existing trading strategies and more easily formulate new trade ideas.

Continually monitor data ingestion pipeline and data quality to ensure stability, reliability and quality of the data.

Design and develop data solutions to help acquire, organize, manage, and control quality of data sets to address the needs of various DRW trading teams and strategies.

Requirements:

5+ years of database, ETL and process monitoring experience working with financial markets data

Experience with SQL query construction and SQL optimization

Python coding requiring a basic Python coding skills test

Familiarity with a large scale data processing engine such as Presto, Spark, Dask or similar

Prior experience developing data quality control processes to detect data gaps or inaccuracies

Strong technical problem-solving skills

Proven ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment, prioritize multiple tasks and projects, and efficiently handle the demands of a trading environment.

Familiarity with various database designs and their tradeoffs (Relational, Columnar, NoSQL, etc.)

Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers

Additional skills or experience which enhance consideration for this role:

Python programming skills: Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, Numpy, and SciPy

Prior experience with RDMS techniques: stored procedures, table functions, partitioning or advanced SQL

Prior experience with AWS services such as S3, Athena, CloudWatch, SageMaker

Familiarity with compressed / optimized file formats for data storage such as Parquet and HDF5

Prior experience working with R, Matlab, or Tableau

Prior experience developing REST, GraphQL or OData services

Prior experience with Java, Scala, C++, Rust, Go or a systems programming language.