{"id":715565,"url":"https://alion.io/job/winton-data-engineer-quantitative-platform","title":"Data Engineer, Quantitative Platform","company":{"id":690062,"name":"Winton","domain":"winton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/winton-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":82000,"max_usd":179000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":86},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-04-15T13:06:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-17","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T09:18:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":526,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":526},"description":"About Winton\nWinton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.\nWe employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.\nWinton leverages quantitative analysis and cutting-edge technology to identify and capitalize on opportunities across global financial markets. We foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment, bringing together individuals with Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science backgrounds who are passionate about applying rigorous scientific methods to financial challenges. As a fundamentally data-driven business, our success is heavily linked to the acquisition, processing, and analysis of vast datasets. High-quality, well-managed data forms the critical foundation for our quantitative research, strategy development, and automated trading systems.\nAs a Data Engineer within our Quantitative Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that fuels our research and trading strategies. You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of diverse datasets including market, fundamental, and alternative sources, ensuring their timely acquisition, rigorous cleaning and validation, efficient storage, and reliable delivery through robust data pipelines. Working closely with quantitative researchers and technologists, you will tackle complex challenges in data quality, normalization, and accessibility, ultimately providing the high-fidelity, readily available data essential for developing and executing sophisticated investment models in a fast-paced environment.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nEvaluating, onboarding, and integrating complex data products from diverse vendors, serving as a key technical liaison to ensure data feeds meet our stringent requirements for research and live trading.\nDesigning, implementing, and optimizing robust, production-grade data pipelines to transform raw vendor data into analysis-ready datasets, adhering to software engineering best practices and ensuring seamless consumption by our automated trading systems.\nEngineering and maintaining sophisticated automated validation frameworks to guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of all datasets, directly upholding the quality standards essential for the efficacy of our quantitative strategies.\nProviding expert operational support for our data pipelines, rapidly diagnosing and resolving critical issues to ensure the uninterrupted flow of high-availability data powering our daily trading activities.\nParticipating actively in team rotations, including on-call schedules, to provide essential coverage and maintain the resilience of our data systems outside of standard business hours.\nWhat we are looking for:\nExperience using Python in a business-critical environment\nA commitment to engineering excellence and pragmatic technology solutions.\nA desire to work in an operational role at the heart of a dynamic data-centric enterprise.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work in a team.\nWhat would be advantageous:\nStrong understanding of financial markets.\nFamiliarity with various technologies such as S3, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg.\nProficiency working with large financial datasets from various vendors.\nExperience working with hierarchical reference data models.\nProven expertise in handling high-throughput, real-time market data streams\nOperational experience supporting real time system\nEqual Opportunity Workplace\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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