MARKET DATA ANALYST and Developer

This small to midsize trading firm offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and business skills across a variety of markets. Client offers a collaborative, team oriented, and creative environment, offering ongoing training and great support systems. Superior performance is rewarded with exceptional bonus opportunities. This environment has resulted in a very low employee turnover rate.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

-Partner closely with the Financial Engineering Team to develop back-testing tools that integrate data and analytics effectively.

-Take responsibility for data collection, quality, accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of data, leveraging technical and financial knowledge to add value.

-Design and implement an automated procedure to process and store both vendor and internal data.

-Process data and apply in an accurate manner to file structure and database.

-Work with Financial Engineering Team, market data vendors and exchanges to resolve market data discrepancies.



Experience: 5+ years of working knowledge and behavior of financial market data - real-time, historical, tick capture, equities, futures, options, corporate actions, etc.

You should be passionate about working with data and improving data quality.

-Basic scripting, programming and database skills are required. Specifically, proficiency in either Perl or Python are required; basic competency in C++ desirable. Experience implementing HDF5 or Kx a plus.

-Experience working with large financial data sets.

-Experience working with financial engineering teams as a customer.

-Experience working with market data vendors and exchanges.

-OVERALL, WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIGHLY MOTIVATED, EXCEPTIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS THAT ENJOY FIGURING OUT HOW AND WHY THINGS WORK WITHIN THE CAPITAL MARKETS


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