Lead Engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Define and build the fund's technology architecture across data, infrastructure, and applications.
- Make strategic decisions on tools, frameworks, cloud providers, and data pipelines.
- Design and implement scalable data ingestion pipelines for external and alternative datasets.
- Ensure data quality, normalization, and accessibility for research and trading teams.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security best practices.
- Work closely with investment professionals to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and practices in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and quant systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
- Prior experience on the buy-side (hedge fund, asset manager, proprietary trading firm) is a must have.
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Deep understanding of data engineering tools (e.g., Airflow, Spark, Snowflake, etc.).
- Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Experience with financial data, market microstructure, or quant research workflows.
If interested, please reach out to harry.moore(at)selbyjenings.com
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