Data Operations Engineer

Option Metrics•New York, NY

58d•$100,000 - $150,000

About The Position

As a Data Operations Engineer at OptionMetrics, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth and reliable flow of data that powers our analytics and products. You'll be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and improving the systems and pipelines that deliver critical financial data to our clients worldwide. In this role, you will troubleshoot data pipeline issues, implement quality checks to ensure accuracy, and collaborate closely with our development and infrastructure teams to build resilient, efficient, and secure workflows. You'll also contribute to process improvements, optimize performance across cloud platforms, and help ensure data is delivered with speed, integrity, and consistency.

Requirements

Strong SQL and scripting (Python, Bash).
Experience with workflow orchestration.
Familiarity with data warehouses like Snowflake.
Experience with FTP and similar data distribution platforms.
Cloud-native data services like AWS SQS and general AWS knowledge.
Basic observability (monitoring, logging, alerting).

Nice To Haves

Financial Data knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

Monitor and maintain ETL/ELT workflows for uptime and performance.
Implement data validation, quality checks, and reconciliation to ensure accuracy.
Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) for data issues.
Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues in data pipelines.
Partner with Dev Team and Data QA teams to Ingest and normalize feeds from market data vendors.
Optimize workflows for cost and performance across cloud platforms.
Maintain documentation and runbooks for operational processes.
Support incident management and root cause analysis related to data movement failures.
Visualize data flows and error tracking.