Affinity North

Data Engineer - Web Scraping - Hedge Fund (PW)

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Industry Type: IT Sector
  • Industry Location: New York
  • Experience: NA
  • No. of Positions: 1
  • Primary Skills: Amazon Web Services Apache Hadoop Apache Kafka Apache Spark Apache Airflow Big data Computer science
  • Secondary Skills: Data engineering ETL Google Cloud RDBMS Python NoSQL
  • Job Location: New York, New York
  • Posted Date: Posted today
Job Description

We’re looking for premier Data Engineers to specifically focus on data ingestion and transformation through web scrapes.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

  • Develop solutions that enable investment professionals to efficiently extract insights from data. This includes owning the ingestion (web scrapes, S3/FTP sync, sensor collection), transformations (Spark, SQL, Kafka, Python/C++/R), and interface (API, schema design, events)
  • Build tools and automation capabilities for data pipelines that improve the efficiency, quality and resiliency of our data platform
  • Drive our evolution of our data strategy by challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to enhance our platform

Skills

  • Data engineering focus
  • Significant experience with web scraping data engineering
  • Google Cloud experience
  • Big Data
  • Apache Airflow, AWSE/Azure, Jupyter, Kafka, Docker, Nomad/Kubernetes, or Snowflake
  • Python
  • RDBMS, NoSQL, distributed compute platforms such as Spark, Dask or Hadoop
  • Strong communications skills
  • A Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science
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