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Salary: Competitive Salary
Job Type: Full time
Experience: Senior Level
Luxoft
Lead Market Data Engineer (Remote)
Lead Market Data Engineer | Luxoft | Romania
Project Description:
- Project for US-based hedge fund. The firm invests in multiple assetclasses and strategies, namely long/short equity, systematic, global macro,...
Lead Market Data Engineer | Luxoft | Romania
Project Description:
- Project for US-based hedge fund. The firm invests in multiple asset classes and strategies, namely long/short equity, systematic, global macro, and venture capital.
- We’re looking for talented engineers for a highly visible and impactful internal product. As a software developer in the market data team, you will be responsible for the firm’s primary market data management system that supports both real-time and end-of-day processes critical to client’s Macro trading business.
- This is a highly visible role with significant business exposure. The engineer will be driving improvements to the primary system used at the firm to configure and disseminate market data for end-of-day and end-of-month operations, as well as provide intraday market data for our real-time risk and P&L systems used by the front office teams.
- This is a hands-on software developer position where you will be expected to balance tactical needs with strategic goals, while keeping a product ownership approach to software development.
- This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, as well as an ability to balance tactical and strategic goals, and a strong sense of ownership over the product being worked on.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in either market data or risk systems.
Responsibilities:
- Enhancements to Market Data Operations: Be able to improve systems and processes that support an end-to-end market data lifecycle, including acquisition, normalization, control, distribution, and archiving. Ensure timely and accurate delivery of market data to trading and analytical systems, with a strong focus on market data needed to value the firm portfolio both intraday and at end-of-day.
- Manage Data Flows: Optimize data pipelines and infrastructure to handle large volumes of market data efficiently and with minimal latency.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to onboard new market data feeds, manage existing data feeds, and resolve issues on an ongoing basis in a timely manner.
- Data Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain data quality standards and processes. Monitor data integrity and address any discrepancies or issues promptly.
- System Integration: Oversee the integration of market data with various trading platforms, analytics tools, and reporting systems.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in market data technologies
Mandatory Skills Description:
- Must be passionate about building mission-critical, elegantly engineered, scalable systems
- Proficient in creating REST Web Services using C#
- Thorough understanding of asynchronous mechanisms used in modern .net development
- Experience building APIs
- Proficiency in .Net Framework, C#, WebApi, MS SQL
- Experience with Git source code management
- Professional, precise communication skills
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
- Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
- Must actively practice clean coding practices (SOLID, continuous refactoring, testing)
- Comfortable operating in a fast paced, Agile environment
- Fluency in operating with databases
- Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
- Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Experience with financial market data management
- Exposure to gRPC binary protocol
- Exposure to NoSQL databases
- Containerized deployments using Docker, OpenShift etc
Languages:
- English: B2 Upper Intermediate
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