Data Integrity Engineer

Belvedere Trading - Chicago, IL

Full-time

Chicago, IL

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago, where our traders are dedicated to providing liquidity to the market through their market-making activities. Our team specializes in a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. Since our inception, we have focused on investing in proprietary technology and building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to ensure we remain at the forefront of the industry. This success is driven by our technology teams, who utilize and perfect innovative technology solutions. High-performance proprietary development is the cornerstone of our competitive advantage at Belvedere, fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will not only change how we trade in this technological age but also shape the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We are looking for passionate team members whose contributions are critical to our continued success. The ideal candidate will be someone who is enthusiastic about delivering high-quality and reliable data that our business depends on. You will play a key role in working with end users to develop and refine data pipelines, dashboards, and operational processes. This position will challenge you to acquire industry knowledge and technical skills to expand your capabilities. You must be prepared to delve deeply into complex problems, adapt to changes in technologies and business requirements, and share your insights on improving team experiences and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the analytics and pipelines for the metrics and dashboards that drive critical decisions across the firm.
• Act as a centralized resource for data requests by understanding what data is available and how to retrieve it.
• Set expectations on effort and complexity for introducing new pipelines and data sources.
• Implement requests for both Trading and Technology metrics and analyses.
• Work with stakeholders to iterate through analyses to find issues and improvements in their data platform use.
• Monitor and proactively resolve performance and quality issues in continuous pipelines and processes.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to improve legacy processes and roll out new capabilities.
• Set time aside to learn more about our data, quantitative analysis, and existing dashboards to deepen your understanding of our business and industry.
• Ensure quality and integrity via automation and manual review.
• Develop a working mastery of our data sources through efficient querying and self-learning.

Requirements

• 2 years of experience preferred.
• Proficiency with SQL and data models (other query languages a plus).
• Experience operating and supporting data orchestration tools like Airflow, Dataform, etc.
• Exposure to working in modern cloud data warehouses and tools.
• Experience with data visualization tools, especially Power BI or Looker.
• Comfort using or learning to use development languages and tools, especially Python.
• Attention to detail and curiosity to understand data.
• Unrelenting desire to get to the bottom of the problem and get it right.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about providing quality support for pipelines and users during working hours.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced environment.