CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
Are you an engineer who is passionate about enabling business-impacting research and analytics through reliable and transparent processes, and durable systems? Are you happiest when collaborating with engineers, quants, and traders to deliver trust and confidence in data, software and outcomes? CTC is seeking experienced specialists for our Data Engineering team. We are responsible for the development, infrastructure, and operations of CTC's common data platform. You will utilize your experience combined with the team to operate and improve our data platform, pipelines, and processes through partnered collaboration with quants and traders in our dynamic, data-powered trading firm.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, mentorship and help the team that is responsible for break-fix, uptime and reliability for a petabyte scale cloud data platform
- Manage several production data environments with a high level of service availability for data ETL pipelines
- Collaborate with technology teams, researchers and traders to perform root cause analysis and re-instrument triggers to prevent future pipeline degradation and outages
- Implement automation for manual processes required to meet SLA, be at the heart of developing new insights into internal tools
- Diagnose and resolve critical production issues, running incident tracking, analysis and reporting
- Define a data quality management process and maintain quality standards across our ETL pipelines
- Build automation and processes that improve team efficiency, reduce the impact of mistakes and eliminate recurring incidents
Qualifications
- Experience operating as a Manager, providing day-to-day guidance and support
- Expertise using Python and SQL
- Experience managing large scale data pipelines and highly distributed data platforms
- Cloud (Azure, AWS) and Kubernetes experience required, including infrastructure as code leveraging tools like Terraform
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk Enterprise, SignalFX, CloudWatch, preferred
- Familiarity with distributed computing tools and techniques in the Python ecosystem including PySpark and Dask
- Experience analyzing and efficiently navigating large (TB+) data sets
Our Benefits
(Disclaimer: does not apply to contract roles) We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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