Build and administer data workflows, develop data pipelines using big data tools, and enhance financial analytics performance in a big data ecosystem.
Polar Operations LLC (d/b/a IMC Markets) is seeking a Data Engineer in Chicago, IL.
Your Core Responsibilities
Partial telecommuting permitted.
Data Engineer (Requisition ID: 4453344101)
Your Skills and Experience
This position requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in computer science or engineering, information technology, or similarly quantitative technology field and six (6) months of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Must have six (6) months experience in the following skill(s):
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Your Core Responsibilities
- The Data Engineer builds and administers data workflows in IMC's evolving, modern big data environment.
- Develop and extend in-house data toolkits based in Python and Java.
- Build data pipelines using big data tools including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and AWS.
- Work with our trading and research teams to develop data solutions.
- Assist in identifying solutions that match the problem space and harmonize with our internal data platform.
- Improve the performance of financial analytics platforms built around the big data ecosystem.
Partial telecommuting permitted.
Data Engineer (Requisition ID: 4453344101)
Your Skills and Experience
This position requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in computer science or engineering, information technology, or similarly quantitative technology field and six (6) months of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Must have six (6) months experience in the following skill(s):
- Data engineering, systems engineering, or similar in a high-throughput, big data ecosystem;
- Building and administering data workflows using Hadoop, Spark, and SQL, including troubleshooting and root-cause analysis;
- Developing streaming data applications using Kafka;
- Developing and extending data solutions in containerized environments (Docker or Kubernetes) using Java, Python, or common data-science toolkits; and
- Unix scripting (Bash, tcsh, zsh, and Python).
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Top Skills
AWS
Docker
Hadoop
Java
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
Spark
SQL
Unix
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