Data Engineer - AI & Markets

Data Engineer - Markets & AI Data Platform

Canary Wharf - Hyrbid

We’re hiring a Data Engineer to join a specialist financial markets business building AI, quantitative research and data products for institutional investors.

The company operates in a highly specialised area of global macro and financial markets, working with some of the world’s leading hedge funds, asset managers, banks and professional investors.

This is a small, highly experienced and fast-moving team with a flat structure. Engineers work closely with researchers, quants and product teams, with real ownership over what gets built and how.

The role

You’ll help build the core data platform powering:

• AI agents and research tools

• Quantitative models

• Market and economic analysis

• Internal and client-facing products

• Dashboards and APIs

You’ll work with a broad mix of market, economic, research, news and internal datasets , turning fragmented and often messy information into clean, reliable and model-ready data.

You’ll also help shape the wider data architecture, including:

• Production ETL/ELT pipelines

• Bronze, silver and gold data layers

• Data quality and validation

• Instrument and ticker mapping

• Metadata and lineage

• Monitoring and observability

• Entitlements and permissions

• APIs and structured datasets for downstream applications

What we’re looking for

Strong experience with:

- Python and SQL

• Production data engineering and ETL/ELT

• Modern cloud data platforms such as Azure, Databricks, Delta Lake or Snowflake

• Large, complex or time-series datasets

• Data quality, monitoring and reliability

• Designing clean datasets for downstream users, applications and models

Experience with financial market or ticker-level data , including technologies such as kdb+ , would be a strong advantage.

Why this role?

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of financial markets, AI, quantitative research and modern data engineering .

You won’t be joining a large infrastructure team with narrow responsibilities. You’ll have direct exposure to the people consuming the data, significant technical ownership, and the opportunity to influence the foundations of a growing AI and quant platform.

Ideal for someone who wants to build rather than simply maintain.