Data Engineer | $200k+

Feldspar & Flint LLC is a NYC metro-based Talent Consulting firm that specializes in operational strategy across core business functions.

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data solutions. You will work with high-volume, low-latency market data, ensuring efficient ingestion, transformation, and delivery to downstream systems. This role is ideal for someone with strong data engineering fundamentals, experience in financial services, and comfort in fast-paced, data-intensive environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain databases and data pipelines to ingest and manage options market data.
• Develop and optimize ETL processes with a focus on data quality, reliability, and performance.
• Integrate and process diverse datasets related to market data for analytics and trading systems.
• Ensure system performance, scalability, and reliability in a Linux-based environment.
• Collaborate with engineering and trading teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready data solutions.
• Contribute to data architecture improvements and pipeline efficiency initiatives.

Requirements

• Proven experience in data engineering within financial services or market data environments.
• Hands-on expertise in ETL development and data pipeline optimization.
• KDB /Q, Python, Linux, Java, C .
• Options market experience is a nice to have.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently and collaboratively.