Data Engineer

FlexTrade Systems is a provider of customized multi-asset execution and order management trading solutions for buy- and sell-side financial institutions. Through deep client partnerships with some of the world's largest, most complex and demanding capital markets firms, we develop the flexible tools, technology and innovation that deliver our clients a competitive edge. Our globally distributed engineering teams focus on adaptable technology and open architecture to develop highly sophisticated trading solutions that can automate and scale with your business strategies.

At FlexTrade, we hold our values close to heart, with pride and gratitude, as they guide us in everything that we do. We are dedicated to giving our clients a competitive edge, taking ownership of our responsibilities, being flexible to adapt to ever changing environment and technology, bringing integrity to ever interaction and we continue to improve, grow together and collaborate as one team. All of these while having Fun truly makes FlexTrade a wonderful place to work.

About you:

Data Engineer (Python / SQL) –FlexTCA Join a dynamic FlexTCA (FlexTrade Transaction Cost Analysis) development team. FlexTrade is looking for a Data Engineer to be a part of a rapidly evolving technology group supplying top quality solutions to our growing top tier global client base. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with data scientists and data engineers within FlexTrade’s Quantitative Solutions team, as well as exposure to cutting edge analytics and machine learning technologies.

The Product:

FlexTCA is our Post & Pre-Trade transaction cost analysis and execution quality management solution offering historical and real-time analytics for trading portfolios and single securities across global equities, FX, futures and fixed income. FlexTCA is used by investment managers and brokerages to analyze, evaluate, and improve trader, algo, broker, and venue performance. The product includes an intuitive and flexible web interface for data visualization, exploration, and analysis.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

The candidate will be responsible for design, implementation, and maintenance of FlexTCA’s data processing, data management, and BI tooling.

They will also be asked to contribute to original research on FlexTrade’s proprietary cost models.

The product exposure offers the opportunity for in-depth learning as it relates to both trading and analytics technologies, as well as the associated development life cycle.

Key Skills

• Should be able to write queries to facilitate data warehouse integrity checks

• The individual will contribute to the design, development, and management of order, execution, and market data along with bucketed timeseries ticks for various assets classes.

• Create and Maintain Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) workflows for a range of datasets.

• Write and maintain API interfaces with third party data vendors.

• Will be responsible for all Production, QA and Dev ETL and data integrity checks on a Linux environment.

• Provide automation support and backup to DBA team.

• Help automate Business Intelligence environment maintenance and visualization roll-out using native Python wrapper.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience acceptable. 2+ years experience required.

• Excellent SQL skills are required.

• Strong experience Python and UNIX / Shell scripting.

• 2+ Years Experience with any business intelligence tool, optimally Sisense, will be strongly preferred.

• 2+ Years Experience with numpy / pandas .

• 2+ years experience conducting trading research, understanding sampling, validation, and statistics .

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills