Lead Data Engineer – Market Data Systems

Company: EC1 Partners
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Location: London
Job Description:

Role Overview

A lead-level role owning the design and delivery of market data pipelines supporting trading, analytics, and downstream systems. You’ll combine hands‑on engineering with technical leadership in a complex capital markets environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and build market data ingestion pipelines

  • Lead development across core data components

  • Mentor and guide other data engineers

  • Partner with trading and analytics teams

  • Own data reliability and performance

Required Experience

  • Strong Python and SQL expertise

  • Market data or trading data exposure

  • Cloud data architecture experience

  • Leadership or mentoring experience

  • Financial services background

Nice to Have

  • Real-time or streaming data experience

  • Vendor feed integration

  • Low‑latency systems exposure

Why Join

  • Technical leadership opportunity

  • High-value, complex datasets

  • Strong visibility across the business

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Posted: October 21st, 2026