Brand: Citadel
Role: Business Aligned Data Engineer

At Citadel, we like to think that we engineer insights instead of data. Data Engineers architect and build
our data platforms which drive how we source, enrich, and analyze data that powers our investment
process. These Data Engineers own the entire data pipeline starting with how we ingest data from the
outside world, transforming that information into actionable insights, and ultimately designing the
interfaces and APIs that our investment professionals and quantitative researchers use to monetize
ideas. Throughout the process, our Data Engineers partner with top investment professionals and data
scientists to design systems that solve our most critical problems and answer the most challenging
questions in finance.
YOUR OPPORTUNITIY:
 Develop solutions that enable investment professionals to efficiently extract insights from data. This
includes owning the ingestion (web scraping, S3/FTP sync, sensor collection), transformations (Spark,
SQL), and interface (API, schema design, events)
 Partner with the industry’s top investment professionals, quantitative researchers, and data scientists
to research, design, develop, and deploy solutions that answer fundamental questions about financial
markets
 Build tools and automation capabilities for data pipelines that improve the efficiency, quality and
resiliency of our data platform
 Drive the evolution of our data strategy by challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to
enhance our platform
YOUR SKILLS & TALENTS:
 Passion for working with data in order to accurately model and analyze complex systems such as a
publicly traded company, commodity market, economy, or financial instruments
 Strong interest in financial markets and a desire to work directly with investment professionals
 Creativity to discover new sources of web data that drive investment insights
 Proficiency with Python
 Experience with any of the following systems: Apache Airflow, AWS/GCE/Azure, Jupyter, Kafka,
Docker, Kubernetes, or Snowflake
 Strong written and verbal communications skills
 Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience