What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer for a Research Team at an Elite Asset Management Firm position at Quanta Search?
OUR CLIENT, A PROSPEROUS ASSET MANAGER, IS SEEKING A DATA ENGINEER
As a part of their stellar research team—Market Intelligence—you’ll partner with investment professionals and Compliance team to uncover insights about companies, industries, and the broader economy through deep fundamental research and applying data science and engineering techniques to alternative data sets. You’ll work alongside a talented team with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. Researchers, product managers, and data scientists and engineers work together to build compliant research products that answer the questions posed by the investment professionals. We look for other bright, motivated, and collaborative people —more than 90% of the leaders in that group were promoted from within.
ROLE SUMMARY
Data Engineers on the Proprietary Research team design and build solutions that enable investment professionals to effortlessly, extract insights from large, complex compliance approved structured and unstructured data sets. As a member of the Data Engineering team, you will work closely with investment professionals, researchers, and data scientists to design, build, and launch robust end-to-end data pipelines and tools that that help extract the most value out of data assets. In this role, you will:
- Develop and support big data processing pipelines including but not limited to ingestion, transformation, and end-customer delivery
- Build out cloud-based infrastructure using distributed techniques for other data engineers / data scientists / researchers
- Be at the forefront of new technology developments with respect to the handling and processing of big data and conduct proof of concepts evaluations of new technologies
- Build and support visualization and exploration capabilities around our big data sets
WHAT EXCITES YOU
- Transforming large unstructured, data sets into valuable investment research inputs
- Learning and working with industry-leading cloud-computing technologies
- Speaking with experts both inside and outside the Firm to understand data needs and offerings
- Fast-paced work environments that at times require switching gears to address the needs of the business
- Working as part of a cross-functional team made up of investment, research, and compliance professionals
WHAT EXCITES US
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, and project management skills
- Superb business intuition and a solution orientated, methodological approach to problem solving
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships across multiple business units within the Firm
- People who “elevate the room” through their work ethic, curiosity, and solution-orientated attitude
- Adherence to the highest ethical standards working closely with the Firm’s Compliance team
WHAT’S REQUIRED
- Experience or demonstrated interest in big data technologies
- 3 years of experience in Data Engineering or related field
- Strong experience in Python Development
- Experience with Spark or Scala
- Ability to devise novel and innovative solutions to challenges
- Knowledge of/experience with graph databases is a plus