Senior Data Engineer | Elite Quant Trading Firm in NYC | Pyton & SQL

Data Engineer — Quantitative Trading Firm

Location: New York, NY

Delmar Nord LLC has partnered with a leading quantitative trading firm to identify a Data Engineer to join their technology organization. Our client is a top-tier systematic trading firm known for its rigorous, engineering-driven culture and its work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, market data, and quantitative research.

About the Role

This is an opportunity to build and own core data infrastructure supporting a fast-paced, research-intensive trading environment. You'll work closely with quantitative researchers, traders, and software engineers to design systems that ingest, process, and serve massive volumes of market and alternative data with extremely high standards for correctness, latency, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale data pipelines handling structured and unstructured market data, reference data, and alternative data
• setsPartner directly with quantitative researchers and traders to understand data needs and translate them into robust, scalable infrastruc
• tureOwn data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure accuracy and completeness across critical trading sys
• temsOptimize storage, retrieval, and processing systems for performance at s
• caleContribute to the evolution of internal data platforms, tooling, and engineering stand
• ardsTroubleshoot and resolve production data issues with urgency and precision.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or C++
• Deep experience with SQL and large-scale data processing frame
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency data systems
• Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, distributed systems
• Prior experience in financial services, trading, or another data-intensive, high-reliability domain preferred but not required
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Intellectual curiosity, high ownership, and a bias toward rigorous, well-tested engineering.

Why This Role

This is a chance to work on some of the most technically demanding data problems in the industry, at a firm renowned for its engineering culture, compensation, and the caliber of the people you'll work alongside.