Job DescriptionData Platform Engineer First Derivative is a people-first company. We are powered by our ever-growing teams of specialist problem-solvers and process-evolvers. Our extensive capabilities offer agile solutions and exciting career opportunities - whether you're in the early stages of your career, looking for a new direction, or wanting to continue in a position of leadership. Joining the world's largest Capital Markets dedicated consultancy, you will have the opportunity to gain exposure to a range of mission-critical projects, tech stacks, clients and a company that prides itself on career development, variety, and flexibility. We have opportunities for Mid-Senior Engineers who will work shoulder to shoulder with Tier 1 investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citigroup, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse to name a few. What will you do? We are looking for a skilled Senior Data Platform Engineer with a strong Python background to join our FD Data team. This role is ideal for a data engineering professional experienced in delivering robust data platforms and implementing data fabric solutions. As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and optimizing the data infrastructure on AWS for our customers, ensuring high performance, data integrity, and secure access across data products. Essential Requirements:
- Extensive experience with AWS data ecosystem services such as Lake Formation, EMR, Glue, EC2, and CloudWatch, including the configuration and optimization of these services for data processing, with a strong focus on security, scalability, and logging.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with open table formats, such as Hudi or Iceberg.
- Proven track record of coding and software development within high-performing data engineering teams, with a focus on delivering data products at scale.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud automation and deployment using tools like Terraform.
- Strong SQL and Spark skills for effective data transformation and processing.
- Ability to enforce and uphold data quality through validation, cleansing, and governance best practices to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):
- Experience in the financial industry, particularly in investment banking.
- Knowledge of additional data processing libraries and tools.
- Expertise in one of the major real-time data processing frameworks, such as Apache Flink or Kafka Streams.
- Experience in building event-driven and/or streaming data services.
What's in it for you? You will embark upon a career with life-long learning at its core, facilitating rapid professional and personal development and the opportunity to design your own career path. Benefits:
- Hybrid and Flexible Working
- Extensive Private Healthcare Package
- Private Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity policies
- Group Life Protection Benefit
- Employee Referral Bonus Scheme
- Access to a range of skills and certifications such as GCP, AWS, Azure and more!
Additional Perks:
- FD Internal Network and Sports & Social Calendar, who host monthly and quarterly socials at each office.
- Aspiring LeadershipProgramme - a programme which provides a structured and practical pathway to fast-track talented individuals into leadership roles.
- STEP-up Awards - employee led awards designed to acknowledge excellence in four areas that are quintessential to us.
- TechSmiths Guild - helping employees get to grips with everything cloud computing and data storage (which are integral to the future of business and risk management).
- STRIVE Initiative and IMPACT Programme - development programmes put in place to support women in tech and financial services.
- Investment Club - employees learn the basics of investment and trading via workshops and competitions, mirroring real-life scenarios.
- Food Club - the opportunity to try out new cuisines together as a team
- Sports Club - a bit of healthy competition! Getting involved in 5k fun runs, JPM challenge and SCB challenge.
The salary range is $70-120 USD per hour depending on skills and experience.About the Team
First Derivative First Derivative provides a range of managed services and consulting worldwide to its clients in the capital markets sector, including many of the world's leading banks, focused on supporting mission-critical systems as well as helping them to achieve and maintain regulatory compliance.