Key Engineering Role
This senior engineering position focuses on developing and maintaining large-scale, high-performance trading data platforms with a focus on low latency and high availability. As part of our team, you will lead the development of efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant data pipelines for trading, risk management, and reporting.
Main Responsibilities
* We are seeking an experienced leader to architect, develop, and maintain large-scale trading data platforms.
* The successful candidate will apply data engineering principles to design efficient data pipelines for trading, risk management, and reporting.
* Collaboration is key: this role requires seamless integration between trading operations and backoffice systems.
* You will lead cloud-native infrastructure initiatives, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform to deploy and scale systems efficiently.
* A GitOps-driven workflow approach is essential for deployment automation, observability, and system governance.
* Fostering a culture of security, compliance, and financial accountability within the development lifecycle is crucial.
* Optimising data storage and retrieval strategies, balancing performance, cost, and compliance in a financial services environment.
* Working closely with cross-functional teams to enhance overall platform capabilities.
Requirements
* A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
* Proven experience in building and maintaining large-scale trading data platforms.
* Strong expertise in Rust (or C++), Python, and TypeScript for system development and automation in the financial services industry.
* A deep understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and stream processing.
* Experience with financial services data workflows, including trading, middle office, and back office operations.
* Extensive experience in cloud-native architectures, with proficiency in AWS.
* Proficient in GitOps tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.
* A strong background in DevSecFinOps, ensuring compliance, security, and cost efficiency across the development lifecycle.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring tools.