Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
Job Overview
We are looking for a bright and exceptional Engineering Lead to join our Technology team. In this role, you will work closely with Product Managers, Subject Matter Experts, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines for our Data Platform. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in distributed data processing, expertise in architecting Data Pipelines and operational skills to drive efficiency and speed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the product and other teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust engineering solutions.
- Architect, build and maintain data solutions and pipelines to meet business requirements.
- Engage and lead a team of talented technologists and establishing engineering best practices.
- Act as a point of contact for managing and driving production defects & stability improvements to resolution
- Oversee end-to-end data workflows from ingestion, transformation, and storage to data lake in both batch and streaming environments.
- Drive improvements in performance, reliability, and scalability of data pipelines
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math, or other technical fields with 6-8 years of experience, Fintech domain is a plus.
- Demonstrated contribution to end-to-end delivery of enterprise-grade software
- Experience on Data Engineering, Data Lakes, Data Warehousing, Data Pipelines, Data Analytics tools.
- Experience using open-source Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Kafka.
- Hands-on experience in enterprise application development
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in cloud technologies is a plus
- Demonstrates advanced proficiency in Python for building scalable data pipelines, automating workflows
- Experience building scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data lakes/warehouses.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, ADF, Glue Workflow, etc.).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, version control, and DevOps practices.
- Experience working in agile, collaborative environments.
- Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
- Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
- Experience in leading a team of highly skilled engineers
- Strong communication skills
Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from all qualified individuals.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
