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Data Engineer (Hong Kong/Seoul) - PR/601538_1784173806

Data Engineer (Hong Kong/Seoul)

Hong Kong
Permanent
Negotiable
Financial Technology
PR/601538_1784173806
Data Engineer (Hong Kong/Seoul)

Senior Data Engineer - Investment Platform Engineering

Company Overview

Our client is a rapidly growing investment technology business being incubated within a leading global asset management group. Combining the backing, resources, and market access of an established financial institution with the agility of a startup, the team is building a next-generation platform focused on data, AI, and investment technology.
Operating with a highly entrepreneurial mindset, the business is in a significant growth phase and has plans to evolve as a standalone technology-driven platform over time. This creates a unique opportunity for engineers to join early, shape the technology foundation, and have meaningful influence on the long-term direction of the organisation.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale the core data platform that supports investment research, portfolio management, and risk functions. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and operating data pipelines that process global financial market data, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and consistency across multiple asset classes and regions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for financial market data ingestion, transformation, and distribution
  • Build and optimise data workflows using cloud-based technologies, Snowflake, and orchestration tools such as Airflow
  • Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of data infrastructure
  • Develop automated monitoring, validation, and data quality frameworks
  • Integrate and standardise datasets from multiple global data providers
  • Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and other technology teams to deliver trusted data products
  • Drive best practices around data architecture, governance, and engineering standards
  • Contribute to strategic decisions regarding platform design, tooling, and long-term technology direction

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building and operating production-grade data platforms and pipelines
  • Strong experience working with financial market data within asset management, hedge funds, investment firms, or capital markets environments
  • Exposure to asset classes such as equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, or alternative investments
  • Deep expertise with cloud data technologies including Snowflake and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong understanding of relational data modelling
  • Proven experience designing data systems used by downstream engineering, analytics, research, or investment teams
  • Strong understanding of data architecture, performance optimisation, and operational reliability
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical solutions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

  • Experience integrating data from major financial data vendors
  • Knowledge of corporate actions processing and point-in-time data management
  • Experience with cross-vendor data reconciliation and validation frameworks
  • Exposure to global market data across multiple regions and time zones
  • Professional working proficiency in English

Location & Work Setup

  • Seoul, South Korea as a first priority. Hong Kong as an additional option.
  • Primarily office-based environment with close collaboration across investment and engineering teams

Why Join

  • Join a startup-style engineering environment with the backing and financial strength of an established global asset manager
  • Opportunity to build greenfield data infrastructure rather than maintaining legacy systems
  • Play a key role in a platform that is expected to evolve into a standalone technology business over time
  • Work directly with investment professionals, quantitative researchers, and senior leadership
  • High level of ownership, visibility, and influence over architecture and engineering standards
  • Exposure to global markets, data, AI, and cloud technologies at scale

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