Data Engineer, Alternative Data | Delta One Trading | Experienced Hire
Core
Build scalable, fully automated data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and clean diverse external datasets (credit card panels, web-scraped prices, call transcripts) for systematic trading strategies.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (alternative data)
Builds
Reliable datasets and infrastructure tools for researchers and traders
Domain
Quantitative finance / Alternative data processing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python data engineering, SQL, large-scale dataset investigation, data normalization, tool design
Preferred skills
Familiarity with Pandas, Polars, Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB
Technologies
Python, SQL, Pandas, Polars, Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB
Responsibilities
Partner with modelers and traders to understand data needs, evaluate new datasets, ingest and normalize external data, design tools and infrastructure for data work
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC