Data Engineer - BDA

The role

A Data Engineer will build and maintain the BDA data platform. You will work with business stakeholders to translate questions into datasets, analyses, and tools.

What you will do

• Design, build and operate data pipelines and datasets on AWS using S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue and Athena
• Define infrastructure as code and deliver changes through CI/CD
• Integrate internal and external data sources, validating data quality and reliability
• Build reporting and BI views and communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders
• Use agentic coding tools in day-to-day development
• Design data and systems that AI agents can use safely
• Contribute to LLM-powered projects including document extraction, natural-language data access and automated data quality
• Share ownership of the team's systems, documenting design decisions, assumptions and limitations

Required qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or another relevant technical discipline
• At least three years' experience building and operating production data pipelines and datasets
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including IAM
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to write clean, structured and tested code
• Experience with infrastructure as code and agentic coding tools, including reviewing and verifying their output
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity and a consulting mindset
• A proactive, organised and versatile approach
• Enthusiasm for BI, analysis and data science alongside engineering
• Comfortable working through problems where requirements are not fully defined

Nice to have

• Terraform
• Dash, FastAPI or similar frameworks for dashboards, reporting and data applications
• LLMs, including agents, tool use, retrieval or MCP
• AI-friendly data architectures, including machine-readable data contracts, catalogues and metadata
• Applying machine learning or statistical methods to business problems
• Spark or PySpark

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

About the company

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. It is a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing.