Data Engineer

Optiver is a leading global market maker powered by technology rigorous research and deep collaboration. As we become increasingly data-driven our ability to capture model and deliver high-quality data at scale is fundamental to maintaining our trading edge. We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering this role you will own the end-to-end data lifecyclefrom raw market data capture through to normalized datasets used by both trading and research.

WHAT YOULL WORK ON:

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines for capturing and processing raw data.
• Ingest catalog and manage a variety of data sources including market data execution data reference data and more.
• Model and normalize complex financial datasets to ensure they are clean consistent and easily accessible for research and production.
• Ensure all datasets are well managed and governed within our global data lake.
• Collaborate closely with traders researchers and engineers across multiple global offices to understand evolving data requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Implement rigorous data-quality checks monitoring and alerting to guarantee reliability and consistency.
• Contribute to the architecture and scaling of our global data platform to support ever-growing data-intensive strategies.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role within a high-performance environment preferably in the financial services industry. We are open to candidates across a range of experience levels including junior talent.
• Proficiency with Python C is a big plus
• Experience with market data & exchange protocol is highly desirable
• Solid understanding of data capturing data modeling and normalization.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing distributed data pipelines.
• Experience with lakehouse architectures (e.g. Delta Lake Databricks) is preferred.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals especially around performance reliability and scalability in distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced collaborative environment.