Data Engineer, Financial Reference Data - Chicago, United States - Teza Technologies

Description

About Teza

Teza is a systematic quantitative hedge fund.

Every day we translate complex mathematical concepts into financial strategies trading on the world's largest markets with synergy between people and technology.

There's nothing more important to us than collaborative research, uniting the brightest minds on the planet.

With offices in six time zones, we never skip a beat – trading 24/7, with holding periods from milliseconds to months.

Location

Chicago, IL (Hybrid mode with 3 days in-office requirement)

About The Role

Teza Technologies is looking for a Data Engineer to join our core services technology team. Data drives systematic trading and is critical to all aspects of the firm's business.

This is a hands-on position on a small team of data engineers with significant growth potential, as this team will grow rapidly over the next couple of years.

The firm is looking for outstanding technical skills, strong attention to detail, and experience architecting and building data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Timely onboarding of structured and alternative data vendors
Communicate with quantitative researchers and other end-users to understand their requirements and potential future requests
Investigate vendor data thoroughly to become a subject matter expert on its characteristics and irregularities
Design and implement efficient reusable ETL processing components using cutting edge technologies, and write robust tests for on-going quality control
Build flexible APIs in iterations with end-users to ensure their needs are met

Enhance existing data infrastructure and services:
Optimize data IO and load balancing for grid computation
Automate data storage management

Basic Requirements

Strong programming skills, preference for Python and Java
Proficient with SQL
Detail oriented approach
Experience supporting Financial Products/Reference Data is a big plus

Nice To Have Requirements

Experience with AWS, Hadoop, Spark would be a plus

What You'll Get

Working with world-class Quantitative Traders to bring strategies to market
Opportunity to work with the best and the brightest in the industry
To offer and implement the best practices and have major impact
Challenging tasks to help you grow professionally
Open door culture

What Makes You a Match

You are experienced data practitioner
You confidently communicate technical ideas
Difficult problems make you excited
You are not afraid of the unknown and love to learn
You have A LOT of passion and drive

Benefits

Health, life and disability insurance
Flexible sick time policy
Office lunch and snacks

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