Big Data Engineer Malvern, PA - Hybrid Job Description Responsibilities
- Client's Strategy team leverages data, execution technology, and research to advance clinet's trading strategies, empowering traders to achieve the lowest trading costs, unmatched efficiency, and increased competitiveness.
- As an Engineer on the full stack team, you will be expected to help design, implement, and maintain a modern, robust, and scalable platform which will enable the TAS team to meet the increasing demands from the various trading desks.
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Python programming Strong expertise in SQL, Presto, HIVE, and Spark
- Experience in big data technologies such as Spark and developing distributed computing applications using PySpark
- Experience with libraries for data manipulation and analysis, such as Pandas, Polars and NumPy
- Understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts
- Strong experience in building and orchestrating data pipelines
- Experience in building APIs
- Experience in designing and building web environments on AWS
- Write, maintain, and execute automated unit tests using Python
- Follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices in all stages of software development
- Proficiency in data visualization tools and ability to create visual representations of data, particularly using Tableau
- Extensive experience with key AWS services/components including EMR, Lambda, Glue ETL, Step Functions, S3, ECS, Kinesis, IAM, RDS PostgreSQL, Dynamodb, Timeseries database, CloudWatch Events/Event Bridge, Athena, SNS, SQS, and VPC
- Proficiency in developing serverless architectures using AWS services
- Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
- Skills in designing and implementing data models, including normalization, denormalization, and schema design
- Knowledge of data warehousing solutions like Amazon Redshift
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot data issues
- Good understanding of source control, unit testing, test-driven development, and CI/CD
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and comprehend code written by others
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of trading and investment data
- Experience with OneTick / KDB