Dubai Relocation - Data Engineer/QD (Quant team)
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
25-03-2025
Job Specifications
Quant Hedge Funds have flocked to the UAE over the last few years, mainly starting by moving over Senior PMs from other regions to setup their strategies from here. Now that there is enough of a presence, the supporting functions of these Quant businesses are growing in the region, after previously being serviced from other locations.
Role:
There is a wide range of Data responsibilities within this QR team, so the hire will need to be a savvy data engineer with experience wrangling data, optimising data systems as well as building new ones from scratch:
Responsibilities:
Onboarding new datasets (financial, alt, structure and unstructured
Data cleaning, standardisation etc
Data streaming, pipelining etc
Data Analysis
Interface with Quants, PMs and QDs to understand the data needs of their research
Required Skills:
Here's a list of interesting things that clients are interested in seeing:
Python
SQL
AWS/Azure/GCP
Airflow/Snowflake exp. is plus
CI/CD + DevOps exp. is a plus
Exp. with common financial data sets (e.g. Bloomberg, Refinitv, FactSet, S&P Global, CapIQ etc)
About the Company
Durlston Partners began recruiting for the world's best Hedge Funds in 2010 and we have grown our business to deliver best-in-class talent to companies in Tech, Quant Finance, Portfolio Management, Data Science & Digital Assets. Our team operates from our offices in London, New York and Dubai. Led by 5 Partners, we have achieved organic growth and self-funded success without external investment. Our clients include leading hedge funds, banks, family offices, and AI / Machine Learning firms across global financial hubs such... Know more
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