# Sr. Data Engineer

**Company:** [NinjaTrader](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ninjatrader)
**Location:** Chicago, IL, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, NY, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, DC, Wisconsin
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $100k – $150k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, GCP, BigQuery, Cloud Sql, Cloud Storage, AWS, S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Terraform, dbt, Airflow, Prefect
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Design and maintain scalable data pipelines and lake architecture on GCP/AWS to power analytics, trading tools, and ML initiatives. Requires 5+ years experience, strong SQL/Python, dbt, orchestration tools, and cloud infrastructure experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing
- Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems
- Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting
- Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
- Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
- Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
- Collaborate with analytics, product, and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
- Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
- Promote high standards in code quality, testing, and platform reliability
- Participate in Agile ceremonies

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development
- Strong skills in SQL and Python
- Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage)
- Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis); bonus for EMR
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g., Terraform, GitOps)
- Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects
- Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect)
- Knowledge of data lake architecture, including file formats (Parquet, Avro) and open table formats (Apache Iceberg)
- Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architecture
- Track record of building automated, well-tested, and observable data systems
- Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced Agile environment

## Nice-to-Haves
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, especially around data workloads
- Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink)
- Experience with change data capture tools (e.g., Debezium, Kafka Connect)
- Experience with BI tools like Looker Studio or QuickSight
- Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Background in fintech, trading, or derivatives

## Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $100,000 - $150,000 USD
- Annual target bonus of 10%
- 401k with up to 3.5% company match
- 18 days PTO per year + 7 paid holidays
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance covered 100%
- Paid Parental Bonding Leave

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