Sr. Data Engineer
NinjaTrader•Chicago, IL
•$100,000 - $150,000•Hybrid
About The Position
NinjaTrader is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to join their Data & Analytics team. This role is crucial in designing and operationalizing the modern data platform that powers analytics, trading tools, and AI initiatives. The engineer will be responsible for providing the platform, tools, and infrastructure needed by the team to deliver deployable solutions. This involves building best-in-class data architecture, scalable workflows, and real-time solutions for trading, product development, and machine learning. The position is remote-friendly and reports to the Manager, Data & Analytics Engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development
- Strong skills in SQL and Python for building and testing data solutions
- Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, etc.)
- Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis) in addition to GCP
- Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects (models, tests, macros, documentation, CI)
- Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect)
- Knowledge of data lake architecture, including file formats (Parquet, Avro) and open table formats (Apache Iceberg)
- Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architecture
- A track record of building automated, well-tested, and observable data systems
- Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced Agile environment
Nice To Haves
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g., Terraform, GitOps)
- Bonus for EMR
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, especially around data workloads and containerized pipelines
- Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink) and comfort working with high-volume, low-latency data flows
- Experience with change data capture tools (e.g., Debezium, Kafka Connect) and real-time data integration patterns
- Experience with BI tools like Looker Studio or QuickSight
- Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Background in fintech, trading, or derivatives
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing
- Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early
- Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis
- Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
- Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
- Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
- Collaborate with analytics, product, and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
- Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
- Promote high standards in code quality, testing, and platform reliability
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture
Benefits
- Annual target bonus of 10%
- 401K plan through ADP with company match up to 3.5% of employee contributions
- 18 days of annual paid time off allowance
- 7 paid holidays
- Generous PTO
- 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
- 1 Service Day Annually
- 401k with 3.5% Company Match
- Paid Parental Bonding Leave
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
