Python Developer

Project Description

• Large hedge fund is a private institutional investment management complex consisting of an international team of researchers and technologists who constantly work toward ever-greater quantification and automation in the development of processes

Responsibilities

• Read data vendor documentation to understand vendor's data set
• Use internal framework to build data downloading mechanism, write internal documents on the data and normalize the data
• Use tools (shell scripts, excel, Zeppelin notebook etc.) to do initial analysis on data, find any problem and communicate with the vendor to resolve them
• Support on internal questions related to data content & behavior

Skills

Must have

• Independent thinking: need to understand vendor supplied data sets
• Attention on details: Vendor data sets can be simple, complex or anywhere in between
• Able to ask the right question to find problems and resolve them with the vendor or developers
• Good communication skills because you will be working with external vendors and internal staff
• Knowledge and experience with Python language
• Strong understanding of command of SQL
• Experience working in a Linux environment

Nice to have

• Experience with Spark, pySpark, ETL pipelines is a plus

Languages

• Spanish: C2 Proficient
• English: B2 Upper Intermediate