iO Associates · 8 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer/Architect - Systematic Trading
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $300K/yriO Associates is seeking a senior data architecture leader to design and scale the core data platform for systematic trading and quantitative research. This role involves building foundational systems for research, simulation, and strategy development workflows, ensuring data is clean, reliable, and accessible for analysis.
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Hiring Manager
Daniel N.
Responsibilities
Architect and deliver a centralized research data platform that aggregates diverse market and reference datasets into a consistent and well-governed environment
Design storage and retrieval systems optimized for large-scale historical analysis, simulation workloads, and low-latency research queries
Build robust ingestion and transformation pipelines that standardize raw external data into structured, analysis-ready formats
Develop internal APIs and tooling that allow researchers to quickly discover datasets, inspect metadata, and assemble inputs for modeling and testing
Partner directly with quantitative researchers, data scientists, and engineers to understand workflow requirements and remove data friction from the research process
Establish standards for schema design, normalization, lineage, validation, and version control to ensure accuracy and reproducibility
Optimize for scalability and performance as both dataset breadth and computational demands increase
Provide technical leadership on best practices for research data engineering and platform design
Qualification
Required
Experience building large-scale data systems within trading, quantitative research, or other time-series-heavy analytical environments
Strong understanding of market data structures, historical datasets, and research/simulation workflows
Expertise in data modeling, distributed storage systems, and high-throughput processing pipelines
Track record of enabling researchers to run fast, iterative backtests or simulations on large historical datasets
Ability to translate ambiguous research requirements into pragmatic, scalable infrastructure
Comfortable operating as a senior technical owner with broad architectural responsibility
Company
iO Associates
iO is an industry leading IT search firm, with specialist disciplines including FinTech, development, analytics, IT security and more.
Founded in 2014
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Neil Willis-Stovold
Founder & CEO
Mark Lloyd
Director
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