Associate Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Industry Sector : Financial services — investment risk analytics, portfolio engineering, and enterprise data platforms. We build scalable data infrastructure and analytics pipelines that power risk signals, regulatory reporting, and client-facing analytics for institutional customers.

Primary Title : Data Engineer (Remote, United States)

About the Opportunity

We are recruiting a remote Data Engineer to join a high-performance engineering team focused on operationalizing large-scale ETL / ELT and streaming data solutions. You will design, implement, and operate resilient data pipelines and platform components that deliver timely, accurate analytics for trading, risk, and reporting use-cases.

Role Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver high-quality datasets for analytics and ML.
• Author and optimize reusable ETL / ELT workflows using managed orchestration (e.g., Airflow) and Spark-based compute for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and maintain cloud data platform components (data warehouses, storage, access controls) to support ad-hoc analytics and production reporting.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and SREs to define data schemas, validation rules, monitoring, and SLAs for production datasets.
• Drive data engineering best practices : modular code, CI / CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements.

Skills Qualifications

Must-Have

Preferred

Qualifications : Proven experience building production data pipelines for analytics or risk workflows; strong troubleshooting and system-design ability; familiarity with data governance, lineage, and observability practices. Candidates should be authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits Culture Highlights

This role is keyword-optimized for data engineering searches (ETL, ELT, data pipelines, streaming, Snowflake, Spark, Airflow, AWS) and is ideal for hands-on engineers who enjoy building reliable data platforms for mission-critical financial analytics.