
Technology
Data Engineer
Dubai / remote
We are seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain our data infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring our trading and research teams have access to high-quality, reliable data while managing the pipelines that power our quantitative strategies.
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Responsibilities:
• Design and build scalable data pipelines for market data, alternative data, and internal data
• Implement data quality monitoring and validation frameworks
• Optimize data storage and retrieval for research and production trading
• Manage relationships with data vendors and evaluate new data sources
• Build tools and APIs for data access by research and trading teams
• Ensure data security and compliance with regulatory requirements
• Maintain documentation and data dictionaries
• Collaborate with quant researchers on data requirements for new strategies
Requirements:
• 5+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in finance
• Expert-level SQL and Python skills
• Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Airflow)
• Strong knowledge of time-series databases and data warehousing
• Experience with cloud data services (AWS, GCP, Snowflake)
• Understanding of financial market data structures and vendors
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field


Nice to have:
• Experience at a quantitative hedge fund or trading firm
• Knowledge of alternative data processing (satellite, web scraping, NLP)
• Experience with real-time streaming data systems
• Familiarity with ML feature engineering and model serving





