Harrington Starr
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Data Engineer
Global Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund | London
Reference data is fundamental to how investment teams operate. This is an opportunity to join a global multi-strategy hedge fund and help build the data products that underpin investment research, portfolio management, and risk.
You'll work closely with Front Office stakeholders, taking complex market and reference data and turning it into reliable, high-quality datasets that can be used across the investment platform. The focus is on solving real data problems across equity identifiers, corporate actions, and vendor datasets, ensuring investment teams can trust the data behind their decisions.
What you'll be doing:
- Building and improving market and reference data products used across investment teams.
- Working with equity identifiers, corporate actions, and external vendor datasets.
- Integrating, validating, and enriching financial data across the firm's central data platform.
- Developing automated data quality checks to improve accuracy, reliability, and consistency.
- Working directly with Front Office stakeholders to understand their requirements and improve how data supports the investment process.
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What they're looking for:
- 4+ years' experience in financial services, ideally within a hedge fund or Front Office / Quant environment.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience using modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
- A deep understanding of market and reference data, particularly equity identifiers and corporate actions.
- Experience with vendor data integration, data pipelines, and automated testing.
- Someone analytical and detail-oriented who understands the business value of high-quality financial data.
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Why consider it?
You'll be working on data that investment teams rely on every day, with the opportunity to improve how financial datasets are sourced, processed, and used across a growing investment platform.
For someone with a strong reference data background who wants to work closer to the investment process, this is an opportunity to make a tangible impact within a global hedge fund.
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