A leading financial institution in the greater Philadelphia area is looking to hire a tech lead to their Trading Analytics group. This will be a key role as the firm looks to modernize all front office trading technology. This role will report directly to the Head of Trading Analytics and will be responsible for mentoring and guiding junior level engineers for a range of projects.
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in financial technology, strong Python development skills, experience with financial data (market data, TCA data, etc.), a proven track record as a team lead, knowledge of the financial markets, and professional experience with KDB would be a plus.
Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership to drive projects focused on designing, developing, and innovating market data infrastructure platforms and systems
- Partner with quant researchers, product owners, and other stakeholders to learn their requirements and implement solutions
- Manage and support a team of developers and data engineers
- Build a new market data database for equities and multi-asset PMs
- Partner closely with architects on the design of new infrastructure
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- Specific experiences in financial services is required
- Expert Python coding ability
- Professional experience with KDB is a plus
- Working experience with SQL
- Professional experience leading projects
- Strong understanding of market data
