Senior Platform Data Engineer

Job Description

Flow Traders is seeking a Senior Platform Data Engineer to join their Data team in Amsterdam. This role offers the chance to work within a leading proprietary trading firm characterized by an entrepreneurial and innovative culture. The successful candidate will be responsible for maximizing the value of Flow Traders' data by developing and maintaining platform capabilities, improving resource utilization, and delivering business use cases in collaboration with Quantitative Traders and Fundamental Analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain platform capabilities.
• Develop and maintain data infrastructure and data intensive applications.
• Create insights and make data available, accessible and performant for business.
• Work closely with other technology teams (SRE, Backend Platforms, Trading Platforms).
• Mentor and coach less experienced colleagues.

Requirements:

• Experience with data modeling and data warehousing platforms (ex. Bigquery).
• Extensive experience with distributed storage, middleware (e.g. Kafka), data processing (e.g. Apache Beam, Spark), container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with Java / Python programming languages.
• Knowledge of data governance processes and concepts.
• Knowledge of modern data science techniques and tools (Pandas, Tensorflow, SparkML), familiarity with AI and machine learning.
• Solid knowledge of cloud computing (storage, databases, data analysis and processing), preferably GCP and AWS.