At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain data infrastructure for cutting-edge financial research and trading strategies.
- Company: Winton, a leader in quantitative analysis and technology in finance.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, collaborative environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Great opportunity to work with large datasets and innovative technologies.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and tackle complex data challenges in a fast-paced financial setting.
- Qualifications: Experience with Python and strong communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 £ per year.
Winton leverages quantitative analysis and cutting-edge technology to identify and capitalize on opportunities across global financial markets.
We foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment, bringing together individuals with Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science backgrounds who are passionate about applying rigorous scientific methods to financial challenges.
As a fundamentally data-driven business, our success is heavily linked to the acquisition, processing, and analysis of vast datasets.
High-quality, well-managed data forms the critical foundation for our quantitative research, strategy development, and automated trading systems.
As a Data Engineer within our Quantitative Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that fuels our research and trading strategies.
You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of diverse datasets including market, fundamental, and alternative sources, ensuring their timely acquisition, rigorous cleaning and validation, efficient storage, and reliable delivery through robust data pipelines.
Working closely with quantitative researchers and technologists, you will tackle complex challenges in data quality, normalization, and accessibility, ultimately providing the high-fidelity, readily available data essential for developing and executing sophisticated investment models in a fast-paced environment.
Your responsibilities will include
- Evaluating, onboarding, and integrating complex data products from diverse vendors, serving as a key technical liaison to ensure data feeds meet our stringent requirements for research and live trading.
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing robust, production-grade data pipelines to transform raw vendor data into analysis-ready datasets, adhering to software engineering best practices and ensuring seamless consumption by our automated trading systems.
- Engineering and maintaining sophisticated automated validation frameworks to guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of all datasets, directly upholding the quality standards essential for the efficacy of our quantitative strategies.
- Providing expert operational support for our data pipelines, rapidly diagnosing and resolving critical issues to ensure the uninterrupted flow of high-availability data powering our daily trading activities.
- Participating actively in team rotations, including on-call schedules, to provide essential coverage and maintain the resilience of our data systems outside of standard business hours.
What we are looking for
- Experience using Python in a business-critical environment
- A commitment to engineering excellence and pragmatic technology solutions.
- A desire to work in an operational role at the heart of a dynamic data-centric enterprise.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work in a team.
What would be advantageous
- Strong understanding of financial markets.
- Familiarity with various technologies such as S3, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg.
- Proficiency working with large financial datasets from various vendors.
- Experience working with hierarchical reference data models.
- Proven expertise in handling high-throughput, real-time market data streams
- Operational experience supporting real time system
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Data Engineer, Quantitative Platform employer: Winton
Winton is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where data-driven insights are at the forefront of financial research and trading. Employees benefit from continuous growth opportunities, access to cutting-edge technology, and a commitment to maintaining high standards of data quality, all within a dynamic environment located in a vibrant financial hub. Joining Winton means being part of a team that values excellence and empowers you to make a meaningful impact in the world of finance.
