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# Data Engineer, Proprietary Research

- **Company:** POINT72, L.P.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Digital Assets, Distributed Data Store, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Platform System, Apache Spark, Build Management, Semi-structured Data, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/57b54858-bb70-42fc-a65b-c43a2d8d48bb

## About the Role

* Ability to directly or indirectly lead development efforts involving multiple engineers and stakeholders
 * Excellent attention to detail, organization, and project management skills
 * Superb business intuition and a solution orientated, methodological approach to problem solving
 * Ability to collaborate and build relationships across multiple business units within the firm
 * People who "elevate the room" through their work ethic, curiosity, and solution-orientated attitude
 * Adherence to the highest ethical standards working closely with the firm's Compliance team, * 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related development work with distributed data technology
 * Experience with system design and leading multi-person development efforts
 * Strong experience in Python development
 * Experience with Spark and Cloud computing is a plus
 * Track record of delivering novel and innovative solutions to challenges
 * Knowledge of/experience with graph databases is a plus, * Integrity - You demonstrate 100% commitment to the highest ethical standards
 * Ownership - You take charge of your work, uphold your commitments, and always do your best
 * Commerciality - You focus on what matters, ask necessary questions, and are diligent about not wasting time
 * Humility - You welcome and are receptive to feedback and learn from past mistakes
 * Adaptability - You can triage business needs and context switch quickly and efficiently
 * Admirability - You elevate the room through your work ethic, domain knowledge, and work product

## Description

Senior Data Engineers on the Proprietary Research team design and build solutions that enable investment professionals to effortlessly extract insights from large, complex structured and unstructured data sets. As a senior member of our Data Engineering team, you will help set technical direction and work closely with investment professionals, researchers, and data scientists to design, build, and launch robust end-to-end data pipelines and tools that that help extract the most value out of Point72's data assets. In this role, you will:

 * Develop and support big data processing pipelines including but not limited to ingestion, transformation, and end-customer delivery
 * Build out cloud-based infrastructure using distributed techniques for other data engineers / data scientists / researchers
 * Be at the forefront of new technology developments with respect to the handling and processing of big data and conduct proof of concepts evaluations of new technologies
 * Build and support visualization and exploration capabilities around our big data sets

WHAT EXCITES YOU

 * Technical leadership through hands-on development
 * Having a broad impact on architecture and team processes
 * Transforming large unstructured, data sets into valuable investment research inputs
 * Learning and working with industry-leading cloud-computing technologies
 * Speaking with experts both inside and outside the firm to understand data needs and offerings
 * Fast-paced work environments that at times require switching gears to address the needs of the business
 * Working as part of a cross-functional team made up of Investment, Research, and Compliance professionals


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