Data Engineer, Alternative Data | Delta One Trading | Experienced Hire
Core
Build scalable, automated data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and validate diverse external datasets (credit card panels, web-scraped prices, call transcripts) for systematic trading research.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (alternative data)
Builds
Reliable datasets and infrastructure tools for quantitative researchers
Domain
Quantitative finance / Alternative data
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, SQL, Pandas, Polars, Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB, data pipeline architecture, data validation, third-party data investigation
Preferred skills
Experience with large-scale third-party datasets, translating research ideas into tools
Technologies
Python, SQL, Pandas, Polars, Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB
Responsibilities
Ingest and normalize external data from various sources, evaluate new datasets for research use, design tools and infrastructure for data handling, partner with modelers and traders to understand data needs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC