Aspect Capital - Data Engineer

LGBT Great

London

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Aspect Capital

Aspect Capital is an award-winning systematic hedge fund based in London that manages over $8 billon of client assets, where technology is an integral part of the business. We are looking for an engineer to join our Data Engineering team. The team's role is broad, covering the ingestion, storage, transformation and distribution of tick, timeseries, reference and alternative datasets. The technology stack is similarly varied including a range of legacy and modern systems, across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we consolidate our technology estate, revamp how we process and filter data, and overhaul the way data is accessed by our consumers, while continuing to onboard new datasets that enhance our strategies. We are a lean team owning end-to-end delivery from initial design through to operational support in production.

1-3 years working as a Data Engineer
Expertise with Python and SQL
Understanding of core database concepts
Familiarity with a cloud platform or data warehouse
SDLC and DevOps: Git, Docker, Jenkins/TeamCity, monitoring, automated testing
Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues

Experience in the following areas would be ideal:

dbt and Snowflake
Kafka
Airflow

Building a streaming platform to capture and aggregate large volumes of tick data
Developing ELT pipelines to ingest and transform datasets with Python, Snowflake and dbt
Enhancing client libraries to provide unified access to our entire data catalogue
Supporting our Java live data feedhandlers
Consolidating legacy MATLAB systems onto our strategic technology stack
Working closely with quantitative developers, researchers and portfolio managers

If you are passionate about technology, stay current with industry trends, follow engineering best practices, and are always looking for opportunities to improve systems, processes, and performance, then we would love to hear from you.

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