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The firm is looking for outstanding technical skills, strong attention to detail, and a desire to architect and build data platforms.\nLocation\nAustin, TX / Yerevan, Armenia (in-office requirement)\nKey Responsibilities\nWork directly with Portfolio Managers and Quantitative Developers: turn their requirements into datasets and pipelines, and be the person who knows every nuance of the data they trade on.\n\nDesign and onboard new data sources into our warehouse; improve the robustness, speed, and scalability of our systems; manage data entitlements.\n\nBuild automated systems for data cleansing, anomaly detection, monitoring, and alerting, bad data must never reach a strategy.\n\nEvaluate new tools and technologies for organizing, querying, and streaming large datasets, and when nothing on the market fits, build it. That's how the bitemporal store happened.\n\nSupport the production data warehouse the firm depends on.\n\nDevelop and maintain vendor relationships aligned with our business objectives.\n\nWhat we're building right now\nA bitemporal data store, designed and written in-house from scratch. Every dataset answers both \"what did we know then?\" and \"what do we know now?\", which is what lets researchers trust a backtest.\n\nA Python 3.14 migration of a large, long-lived codebase.\n\nAdoption of the latest Apache Airflow: writing DAGs for the thousands of jobs moving off cron.\n\nPipelines for market data and alternative data: everything from exchange feeds to weather.\n\nReal-time delivery: alternative data flows straight into strategies' live feeds. 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