Data Engineer

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Data Engineer to join our Chicago team. The ideal candidate is energized by working in a cutting-edge environment that enables IMC to continue to be at the forefront of the evolving global financial markets.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and deploy our Big Data environment (Kafka, Hadoop, Dremio, etc.)
• Build, deploy, and monitor our data processing pipelines (Java, Python, Spark, Flink)
• Collaborate with development teams on data modeling, data ingestion, and capacity planning
• Work with users to ensure data integrity and availability
• Act as a Big Data SME and consult on a variety of data-related questions from users and developers

Your Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years experience working in a mature data engineering environment
• 3+ years of experience building Kafka streaming applications and/or maintaining Kafka clusters
• 2+ years of experience building applications/pipelines with Big Data backends (S3, HDFS, Databricks, Iceberg, etc)
• Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Flink or similar tools
• Strong Java, Python, and SQL development skills
• Experience with common data-science toolkits, especially python-based
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager, Alerta and OpsGenie
• Strong statistical analysis skills
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and conduct root-cause analysis
• Unix scripting experience (bash, python, etc.)