Data Products Engineering Lead

About BMLL

We are the leading independent provider of harmonised Level 3 historical data and analytics to the world’s most sophisticated capital market participants. BMLL offers banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds and global exchange groups immediate and flexible access to the most granular Level 3, T+1 order book data and advanced analytics, enabling them to accelerate research, optimise trading strategies and generate alpha at unparalleled speed and scale.

We have a fantastic team and our culture is inclusive and highly collaborative - a place where our employees are encouraged to be themselves.

We give all our employees share options, empowering them to get involved in decision making and help shape the future of our company as we continue to grow and scale.

We offer a combination of remote and office (London based) working, weekly team lunches and plenty of office snacks!

For more information, please visit our website, www.bmlltech.com or visit our Twitter, @bmlltech or LinkedIn, @BMLL.

About the Role

We are looking for a Data Products Engineering Lead to build and maintain our data products, these will include content such as Market Data and Analytics. The content will be distributed to our customers through various channels such as cloud storage and databases, file transfers and APIs. The lead will improve processes, reliability and data quality inline with customer expectations.

This is an opportunity to join a cutting-edge FinTech company with the potential to grow your technical, finance, cloud & engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading a small team of Data and Software Engineers with line management responsibilities.
• Owning the full scope of assigned development projects, including liaising with the Data Feed Product Manager to gather requirements, designing the solution with the team, and building and delivering completed functionality to production.
• Design & implementation of the task scheduling (Airflow), APIs, data lakes / data warehouses (S3, Snowflake, PostgreSQL) and distribution channels such as S3 and SFTP and Snowflake(Shares, Market Place).
• Onboarding datasets(internal) and exposing them through distribution channels.
• Supporting implementation work.
• Helping to drive improvements in all areas, including data quality, data standards, data schema management, data tooling, deployment, testing and CI.
• Understanding the data, how it reaches BMLL, how we process it and deliver it to customers.
• Some second-line support of the daily batch processes and the data, shared amongst the team..

Requirements

Essential:

• Team Lead experience.
• Industry experience of building data products with a data quality component.
• Industry experience of production-level big data batch pipelines on AWS.
• Industry experience of Snowflake.
• Industry experience of developing on a Linux platform.
• Experience of industry-standard development methodologies such as source code control, unit testing and continuous integration
• Ability to self-organise and deliver a project against agreed timelines.
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Computer science or other STEM degree

What makes this job special:

• All your work will have a direct impact on the business, as we work closely with our product team.
• You will be part of a team that works on a petabyte scale data lake and an award-winning data science environment to analyse the data.
• You will come in at a time where you will help us shape technology in the firm.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Share Options after completion of probationary period
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Combination of remote and London based office working
• A yearly Well being Physical Activity budget
• Continuous earning through training and challenging projects
• Collaborative culture
• Weekly team lunches
• Free Fruit, snacks, and drinks provided throughout the day (When office based)
• Regular Team Socials
• Cycle to Work Scheme

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We pride ourselves on our commitment to Equality and Diversity and committed to removing barriers throughout our hiring process - if you have any special requirements or require reasonable adjustments to help you access career opportunities at BMLL, please do let us know careers@bmlltech.com.