Senior Data Engineer - HSBCJP00047967

London, Greater London (GBR)
£950 - £1000 Per Day
12 Months
Start date: ASAP
Ref: E

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Required skills

python
data engineer
electronic trading

Other skills

analytics
datasets
financial markets
automation
low latency
testing
reports

Job description Posted 11 August 2023

Senior Data Engineer

London

12 Months Contract

£1000 per day via umbrella company

This role is to join the Data and Analytics team.

Our team setup:

· Our services form a core part of the eRisk (electronic Risk) business and are the golden source of MI and analytics for quants, sales and trading. The platform uses KDB+ to facilitate quantitative research and back testing, and also serves a number of regulatory reports and compliance alerts

· Our application is responsible for capturing, storing and analyzing data in excess of 5billion records per day from a large number of FX electronic trading venues, as well as internal pricing and trading data

· We run hundreds of services concurrently in production and perform multiple releases per day

· There are increasing demands for services built within the application. The successful candidate will join a global team working out of London, Hong Kong and Krakow

If your goal is to:

· Develop scalable, high-performing software and engineer services which handle billions of records, analyse large datasets and find value in the data

· Work heavily with KDB+/q and how this is applied to data engineering

· Be part of a diverse and global team who focuses on fast delivery and user experience

· Understand the business context of what we do and engage directly with Traders and Quantitative Analysts as well as other Technologists

If you have:

· An analytical mind and are excited about solving complex data engineering problems, with strong computer science fundamentals and a deep understanding of the q language

· A demonstrable passion for technology and automation, optimizing and improving solutions

· Demonstrable interest in understanding data and how to combine and present it in various ways, dealing with large datasets and some basic statistical concepts

· Knowledge or interest in Linux and Cloud Infrastructure services, e.g. GCP

· Aptitude for understanding requirements by talking directly to Traders and Quantitative Analysts and solving problems through proactive and collaborative engagement with teammates, owning a change from inception, to testing and releasing it to the users

· FX/quant and trading/ Financial markets, building analytics for business performance/ quant research/ python knowledge/ Performance resilience systems/ large scale data sets/ Build and develop infrastructure/ Multi faceted.

Essential experience/skills (3 minimum)

· Familiarity with product KDB + in financial markets

· Low latency trading environment / analyse traffic/ extracting MI from data sets/ equities

· 5 years +

· Analytical

· Practical experience essential

· Strong Q

Desirable experience/skills

· Python

· Java