Senior Data Engineer - Investment Technology (Python)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is searching for a Senior Data Engineer - Investment Technology (Python) for a Direct Hire assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Lower Manhattan, NYC . This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence 4 days per week .
Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production data pipelines ingesting data from internal systems, market data vendors, and operational databases into analytical and application-facing data stores.
• Design and manage PostgreSQL and analytical data models supporting front-office investment workflows and quantitative research.
• Develop production-quality Python and SQL code for ETL, data validation, enrichment, transformation, and data quality monitoring.
• Build and maintain lightweight internal applications, reporting interfaces, and browser-based tools using JavaScript where appropriate.
• Support research and analytics workflows involving large financial, transactional, market, and time-series datasets.
• Partner closely with quantitative developers, engineers, portfolio management, trading, research, and other investment users to improve data usability and transparency.
• Identify and resolve data quality and operational issues while improving the reliability and scalability of the overall data platform.
• Apply strong software engineering practices around testing, debugging, code quality, documentation, and production support.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Software Engineering with a strong data engineering focus.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience in production environments.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and supporting production ETL/data pipelines .
• Experience designing and maintaining relational and/or analytical data models .
• Experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, code quality, and documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work closely with technical and business stakeholders in an investment-facing environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Snowflake .
• Experience working with financial, investment, transactional, market, or time-series data .
• Investment Management, Asset Management, Fixed Income, Trading, Portfolio Management, or Quantitative Research experience.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-based data infrastructure.
• Experience with dbt, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka, and/or Redis .
• JavaScript experience developing internal tools, dashboards, or data-grid-based interfaces.
• Experience supporting front-office investment or quantitative research applications.

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