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Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business

Data Engineer - Equity Trading - Quant Hedge Fund - £250k

Hybrid

London, United Kingdom

£ 175,000 / year

Full Time

14-04-2025

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Job Specifications

I'm collaborating with an equity trading team, embedded within one of the worlds largest systematic hedge funds. To aid there seamless data driven ecosystem, they're looking for a Data Engineer to aid several PM teams.

The firm have a huge data organization underpinning the trading lifecycle, and they place data analytics and data science teams embedded in the front office to enabled more data driven trades and investments.

The role entails bringing on targeted data sets, pipelining these; and helping to wrangle and analyze the data, ready to assist in signal generation.

Stack: Python, AWS, ETL, SQL

The client are looking to speak to varied Data Engineers from trading backgrounds, with someone technically astute with Python and SQL as well as multiple asset classes.

If you would like the chance to earn a market leading salary with the opportunity to work in a hybrid model in tandem; then please do apply.

About the Company

Paragon Alpha is a specialist hedge fund recruitment and advisory firm. We support our clients to grow, transform and evolve by hiring superior talent and providing market intelligence. Paragon Alpha has a truly global reach and operates within the London, New York, Chicago, Geneva, UAE, Singapore, and Hong Kong markets. We are knowledgeable, passionate, and dedicated to what we do, whether you are hiring or looking for the next steps in your career. With a dedicated, friendly, and professional team with over 35 years of ... Know more

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