Data Engineer
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Location: New York, NY - Hybrid 3x per week
Client: Leading US financial markets operator and data services company
Role: A well-established financial markets company is looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to join their IT Infrastructure team. This is a 50/50 role - you'll own and maintain a large-scale on-prem data warehouse (~10TB, ~100 ETL jobs) while simultaneously helping architect and build out a modern cloud-based data lakehouse. This isn't a pure maintenance gig - there's real opportunity to shape the direction of the data platform and leave a mark on the architecture. Lots of hands-on development, new feature builds, and collaboration with data analysts who depend on the pipelines you own.
Must-Have Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Heavy SQL development - tuning, stored procedures, schema/database design
- ETL pipeline experience - building, optimizing, and maintaining at scale
- AWS (Athena, S3) - primary cloud platform
- Relational database experience - Informix, Postgres, or MySQL
- Scripting - Python, Bash, or Shell
- Comfortable working in both on-prem and cloud environments
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- Financial services or fintech background
- Experience with cloud data lakehouse migrations
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
- Base up to $180k depending on experience
- ~20% discretionary annual bonus
- Equity
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