Data Platform Lead

Join our team as a Data Platform Lead, where you will own trading data as a product and be accountable for its reliability and usefulness to traders and quants. You will design canonical schemas, evaluate and manage data vendors, build and run monitoring systems, and lead a team of engineers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in trading, data product ownership, and experience with Python and SQL.

Own trading data as a product, ensuring its reliability and usefulness to traders and quants.

Ship datasets and pipelines to production quickly, addressing performance bottlenecks across ingestion, storage, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, mapping how data flows across the business and integrating new sources quickly.
• Technical rigour: you can go deep, profile a system and untangle performance bottlenecks
• Experience evaluating and negotiating with data vendors with a view on cost versus value
• Strong schema design for time series and event data, including revisions, late-arriving data and entity mapping across vendors

Requirements

• Track record of leading people and coordinating across teams with a clear understanding of how data flows through a business
• Track record of owning and shipping data products to real users or customers, including the pipelines, data quality and delivery, and being accountable for outcomes rather than only the implementation
• Strong Python and SQL and experience running production pipelines at scale
• Background in a trading firm, hedge fund or other market-facing environment

Preferred

• Built or ran a data vendor business or owned a comparable data product end to end