Data Engineer
Company Description
Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.
MarktetAxess is looking to bring on a skilled Data Engineer to be part of the Data Architecture team and a driving force behind the data platform build-out.
As part of the enterprise architecture modernization, the data platform is one of the key foundational pillars as it connects data with technology to help identifying opportunities and insights. It enables the various business teams within MarketAxess to make faster and better decisions, and ultimately help completely streamline traditional data processing.
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with our various scrum teams on their specific data processing needs for building business applications
- Constantly interact with volume (large history), velocity (data streaming), and variety (many sources) of data
- Focus heavily on data quality measures
- Encompass both on-prem and AWS to provide seamless app access
Who You Are
- Success with designing, building, and scaling infrastructure across AWS and analytics applications using big data and machine learning technologies
- 2+ years of working experience on AWS big data products, such as EMR/Spark
- Experience working with terabytes of data and solid understanding of the challenges of transforming and enriching large datasets
- Experience measuring data ingestion quality
- Comfortability of using tools in AWS to monitor and support cloud based solutions, such as Datadog
- 5+ years of experience programming, ideally in Java and Python
- Well versed in infrastructure as code technologies, such as Terraform, Helm Charts and CloudFormation
What’s in it for You
In addition to working on cutting-edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Healthcare and wellness options
- 401(k) match
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Training and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.
Additional Information
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