The company is dynamic and swiftly expanding in high-frequency trading (HFT), specializing in cryptocurrency market-making and arbitrage strategies. Despite being a compact organization, they've rapidly grown to trade on numerous cryptocurrency exchanges globally. Their activities contribute crucial liquidity, fostering more efficient financial markets. With proprietary algorithms, they command a notable market share, reaching up to 5 percent of trading volume on these platforms, solidifying their position as a significant market maker.
Role Overview: As the Principal Data Architect, you will be responsible for designing, building, and overseeing data architecture framework across multiple services and components. Your work will directly contribute to the efficiency and scalability of trading systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement robust data solutions from scratch that support high-volume and high-velocity data.
- Lead the migration and integration of data across disparate systems, ensuring consistency and accessibility.
- Work closely with trading teams to understand their data needs and deliver high-performance data solutions.
- Develop strategies for data acquisition, warehousing, and data archival.
- Ensure data security and compliance with all regulatory requirements in the trading industry.
- Monitor and optimize system performance and address any issues related to data architecture.
Required Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of experience in data engineering, ideally in a high-frequency trading environment.
- Proven experience with columnar databases, data modeling, and ETL processes.
- Strong familiarity with ClickHouse and its application in trading environments will be considered a significant advantage.
Desired Skills:
- Experience in the trading sector, particularly with real-time data processing and management.
- Solid knowledge of Python and data analysis frameworks like pandas and numpy.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent leadership skills and experience in leading large-scale data projects.
What the role offers:
- Flexible working hours and a healthy work-life balance (CET time).
- Remote-first team with an opportunity to relocate to Dubai.
- This is a key position for the team and we are willing to push back on your salary expectations.
- Ability to work in a thriving, multicultural, and fun environment in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world.
- Corporate workations: we regularly go on corporate trips to cool places all over the world to get to know each other better, work, and explore the local culture.