Data Engineer

Polar Operations LLC (d/b/a IMC Markets) is seeking a Data Engineer in Chicago, IL. 

Your Core Responsibilities

• The Data Engineer builds and administers data workflows in IMC’s evolving, modern big data environment.

• Develop and extend in-house data toolkits based in Python and Java.

• Build data pipelines using big data tools including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and AWS.

• Work with our trading and research teams to develop data solutions.

• Assist in identifying solutions that match the problem space and harmonize with our internal data platform.

• Improve the performance of financial analytics platforms built around the big data ecosystem.

Partial telecommuting permitted.

Data Engineer (Requisition ID: 4453344101)

 

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in computer science or engineering, information technology, or similarly quantitative technology field and six (6) months of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Must have six (6) months experience in the following skill(s):

• Data engineering, systems engineering, or similar in a high-throughput, big data ecosystem;
• Building and administering data workflows using Hadoop, Spark, and SQL, including troubleshooting and root-cause analysis;
• Developing streaming data applications using Kafka;
• Developing and extending data solutions in containerized environments (Docker or Kubernetes) using Java, Python, or common data-science toolkits; and
• Unix scripting (Bash, tcsh, zsh, and Python).

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