Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data EngineerGreenwich, CTWe are a fully funded, pre-product, innovative, early stage Fintech company building a cryptocurrency exchange tailored to institutional investors and professional traders. We are looking for a lead Data Engineer who is passionate about learning new technologies and enjoys the building enterprise level data warehouse and data platforms. As a Data Engineer you will be a core member of the IT team and will report to the Head of Development. You will be developing our data, reporting and analytics platform. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and expanding our cloud-based data pipeline architecture. You should also have a knack for finding and hiring like-minded data engineers! The ideal candidate has experience building robust data pipelines and reporting tools and be familiar with Client methodologies and frameworks. The candidate will be collaborating extensively with Business, Operations and Product teams to support functional use-cases and take data driven decisions.What makes this a great opportunity:Leading technology platform in the digital asset exchange space leveraging the latest in Blockchain techBuilding a data platform from the ground up!What you'll do:Curate and design data models to ensure that data is accessibleBuild highly scalable data analytics and data processing frameworks across the exchange and trading datasetsExperience building ETL workflows (data pipelines)Experience with SQL and query optimizationWork with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT and GitLabWork with open-source technologies as neededSkills We're Seeking:5+ years of data engineering and machine learning experienceWorking with the internals of a distributed compute engineQuery optimization, resource allocation and management and data lake performanceStrong experience with Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, and/or MongoModern Big-Data storage technologies (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta)Experience with Python and SQLNice to Have's:FinTech industry exposureBlockchain/Cryptocurrency knowledgeBachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science or Computer Engineering