What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at Point72?
A Career with Point72’s Technology Team
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.
What you’ll do
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here
The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.
What you’ll do
- Build robust ETL workflows that handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources at scale.
- Design data models and ontologies that maximize the analytical power of the graph.
- Implement data validation and integrity checks across all ingestion processes to ensure consistent, trustworthy data.
- Develop APIs and data services that expose graph data to applications.
- Optimize graph queries for performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to identify and integrate new data sources.
- Maintain detailed documentation for pipelines, data models, and integration processes.
- Monitor and tune ETL processes for efficiency, resilience, and scalability, including alerting for data quality issues.
- Stay current on emerging ETL, virtualization and data engineering technologies, bringing innovative solutions into our workflow.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, data science, or a related field.
- 5 years of professional experience in data engineering, including end‑to‑end ownership of ETL/ELT pipeline design, development, deployment, and monitoring.
- Practical experience implementing data validation, cleansing, transformation, and reconciliation processes to ensure high‑quality, trustworthy datasets.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with common data engineering libraries/frameworks such as Pandas, SQLAlchemy, PySpark, and/or Airflow.
- Deep experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases, data warehouse platforms, and schema/model design.
- Experience with data governance practices, metadata management, and lineage tracking.
- Familiarity with graph query languages, such as SPARQL, Cypher, or Gremlin, and understanding of graph theory concepts to model complex relationships when needed.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to optimize performance and troubleshoot complex data workflows.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Volunteer opportunities
- Non-profit matching gift program
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT community
- Tuition assistance
- A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here
The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
Salary : $175,000 - $300,000