Flow Traders is looking for a Core Data Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of our most fundamental data products. As the architect and guardian of our most valuable data, you will have a unique opportunity to make your mark on Flow Traders. High-quality data products offer substantial benefits that impact every division in our firm, playing a vital role in delivering on our strategic growth initiatives. You will be accountable for delivering these data products at an exceptional level of quality, ensuring that they are not only timely and pristine, but powerful enough to drive Flow Traders’ future growth.
What you will do
- Be accountable for timely and high-quality delivery of core data products to the rest of the organization
- Develop and own the end-to-end lifecycle of these data products
- Define and manage project plans to assume ownership of these data products
- Create and refine a common data model (esp. identifiers, normalized schemas, use of master data) across these data products
- Investigate currently available sources of data and ensure that Flow extracts maximum information and value from them
- Explore, evaluate, and onboard additional sources of available data (both independently and at the request of stakeholders)
What you need to succeed
- Excellent programming skills (any language, Python preferred)
- Working proficiency with Linux, SQL and relational databases, and version control systems
- Prior experience working in a trading environment
- Demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and familiarity with big data solutions
- Experience with Airflow, Kafka, and GCP (esp. GKE, Dataproc, and Big Query) highly desired
- Experience with Pandas, Spark, Apache Beam, Apache NiFi a plus
- Innate drive to generalize, systematize, and automate
- Strong interpersonal skills, works very well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to balance individual stakeholder demands in order to preserve quality and wide applicability of data
- Organized and able to define, manage, and execute projects (often several in parallel) while effectively triaging operational concerns
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for our London office.
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
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What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.
Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.
At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
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