Market Data Analyst recruitment
JOB DESCRIPTION: Data Specialist, MultiQuant Group (New York)
Role/Responsibilities:
-Our clients Multiquant group is looking for a Market Data Specialist to join the team responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to our systematic portfolio managers.
- This individual will be a member of a small team, and will play a vital role to ensure the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and live trading of billions of dollars of capital across multiple markets.
- The Data Specialist will exposure to a wide array of software and infrastructure technologies, and a wide range of different types of data relevant to the successful systematic trading of equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
• Monitoring and enhancing the automated data collection and cleansing infrastructure
• Searching for and correcting errors in existing historic datasets, and software development to automate this process
• Working closely with portfolio managers, IT and Trading Operations
• Research on new technologies for improved data management and efficient retrieval.
• Development of software solutions to process historical tick data into manageable formats
Requirements:
• 3-5 years of experience in a data management or software development role
• In depth understanding of relational database concepts.
• Programming skills in SQL, TSQL, SQL Server PL-SQ
• Programming skills in C#, C++, Java, Perl, Python,Unix Shell
• Strong understanding of computer science concepts
• Experience dealing with intraday, tick and order book data would be an advantage
• Strong oral and written communication skill
• Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or a related field.