Market Data Engineer | Hedge Fund

Working with a top performing hedge fund who are looking to expand their core enterprise market data team with an Market Data Engineer in London.This hire will need good software engineering skills alongside data engineering skills as you will be working on building the infrastructure for market data feeds. Collaborating with other data engineers in the team to understand data requirements of the trading teams.Responsibilities:Design and develop high-performance tick data pipelinesDevelop and maintain documentation for data pipelines and architectureUtilize timeseries databases (e.g., KDB, OneTick) to effectively store, query, and manage tick dataOptimize data processing and storage solution with cloud technologies (AWS preference)Implement strong data validation and error handling mechanisms to ensure the quality and integrity of the dataWork closely with fellow engineers in the team that are in contact with trading teams to identify data requirements and incorporate market data into our products and servicesContinuously enhance data processing latency and throughput to meet the demands of high-frequency trading environmentsSkills Required:Very strong Python skills4+ years of software/data engineering experience, with a focus on market dataFinancial/Market data vendor experience (either on site or familiar with platforms/infrastructure for market data processing)Strong experience working with market dataExperience building tick data pipelines with (extremely) low latencyFamiliarity with Kubernetes and/or containerization (EKS / Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service)Cloud experience (AWS preference)Experience with time-series databases (KDB or OneTick) to store, query and manage tick dataYou'll be designing and developing high performing tick data pipelines to process and analyze large volumes of financial/tick data. So please ensure you have worked with designing and developing these specific low latency pipelines before applying.Not an investment team facing role, more so building the platforms that manage market data pipelines instead of working with the end user (investment teams) to leverage the market data.If you feel you meet the requirements for this role, apply today!