Data Engineer

About the role

Engineers Gate (EG) is a quantitative, computer-driven investment manager founded in 2014, now operating as a diversified multi-strategy platform. Its Core Technology Team builds and scales the data platform used by investment teams across the firm. The Data Engineer joins this team to turn portfolio managers' and researchers' data needs into usable datasets, tools and platform capabilities, working across the full data lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Take data projects from initial requirements through to delivery, working closely with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers.
• Investigate structured and unstructured financial datasets, understand their coverage and limitations, and build robust workflows to process them.
• Develop and improve the infrastructure that makes data available across the firm.
• Build reusable tools for data analysis and quality checks, applying lessons from each dataset to the next.

Required profile

• Undergraduate degree in a STEM field.
• Zero to two years of professional experience in software or data engineering.

Required skills

• Programming experience in Python.
• Familiarity with data pipelines/ETL tools, relational databases and/or SQL.