Python Quant Data Engineer - Systematic Trading Technology

Be an integral part of a technology team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Python Quant Data Engineer you will help build the technology for Systematic Equities Trading Business. The role would sit in the Equities Trading Data & Analytics technology team. As a Vice President Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the agile technology team, you will play a crucial role in improving, developing, and delivering top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your skills and contributions will have a substantial impact on the business, and your profound technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies will be utilized to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and support fast, reliable, globally consistent data pipelines (data ingestion, cleaning, backfilling, storing) for the research and execution systems ensuring data integrity and low-latency access for research and trading.
• Work with the research and trading teams to onboard new datasets efficiently and consistently for use globally by the business.
• Design and build robust tools and frameworks to support quantitative research and production trading.
• Design, build and support research infrastructure (e.g. data access APIs, high performant and scalable simulation environments, feature and strategy signal stores)
• Build and support research and trading analytics libraries (e.g. markouts, strategy analytics)
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Design and implementation of front-office systems for quant trading.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Strong expertise in Python. Comfortable with scientific & dataset libraries such as pandas, numpy.
• Experience with KDB/Q
• Knowledge of data pipelines, market data processing and backtesting workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Academic experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistical techniques and related libraries.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills And Capabilities

• Strong knowledge and experience in FIX, Market Data, Analytics, OMS, and equities trading in global markets are assets
• Additional knowledge of Java / C++ is a strong plus.
• Practical cloud native experience is a plus.
• Practical cloud experience is a plus.