Senior Data Architect

A leading crypto market-making and trading firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect with strong financial markets experience to lead the design and evolution of its core data platform. The role involves building scalable, reliable data systems supporting risk, P&L, regulatory reporting, and analytics across spot and derivatives trading.

You’ll work closely with teams across Front Office, Risk, Finance, Operations and Compliance, taking hands-on ownership of the firm’s data architecture and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core data models covering trade, market, pricing, risk and finance data across streaming, lake/lakehouse and warehouse environments.
• Build and maintain streaming and batch pipelines to capture, reconcile and deliver trusted market and trading datasets.
• Implement data quality, governance, lineage and access controls with defined SLAs and data contracts.
• Manage cloud-based data storage and processing (AWS preferred), optimizing for cost, performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple business areas to deliver cohesive, production-grade data products.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in data engineering within financial markets.
• Exposure to at least one of: Front Office (Sales & Trading), Risk Management, or Finance.
• Strong programming in Python, Java and SQL (Rust a plus).
• Proven experience building streaming and batch ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Strong understanding of market/trade data lifecycles and time series concepts.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native data services.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Experience with crypto or digital asset data.
• Familiarity with regulatory and audit reporting.
• Exposure to analytics layers, BI tools, or observability platforms.