BHFT: Market Data Engineering Manager

Salary: Not specified.

Headquarters: United Arab Emirates (Remote or hybrid options available)

BHFT is seeking a talented Market Data Engineering Manager to join their team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a Data Engineering team responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving market data across global exchanges. As the owner of the architecture and evolution of their Feature Store, you will play a crucial role in powering their live trading systems and research pipeline. This is a hands-on technical leadership position with significant ownership and influence over their trading technology stack.

About BHFT:

BHFT is a leading technology company based in the United Arab Emirates, focused on building a world-class data platform for systematic trading. With a team of experts from diverse backgrounds, BHFT is at the forefront of innovation in the trading industry. Their mission is to provide low latency and highly reliable data solutions for their clients. They offer a dynamic and collaborative work environment, with opportunities for professional growth and self-realization. BHFT values diversity, creativity, and a strong work ethic, making it an attractive employer for top talent in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end delivery of core data engineering initiatives, including market data platforms, real-time and batch pipelines, feature stores, and scalable storage and processing systems.
• Lead and mentor the Data Engineering team; translate business and research needs into clear roadmaps, execution plans, and engineering standards (code quality, testing, CI/CD).
• Own data ingestion and processing for live and historical datasets, defining SLAs, data quality metrics, monitoring, schemas, and governance.
• Design and operate feature generation and serving platforms, ensuring low-latency production pipelines, reproducibility, versioning, and lineage.
• Build and maintain data infrastructure and tooling, including collectors, ingestion services, metadata/catalog systems, and compute workflows.
• Collaborate closely with researchers, product and engineering teams, as well as compliance and risk, to enable fast experimentation and reliable production deployment.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years in Data Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
• Prior experience in trading, HFT, systematic hedge fund, crypto exchange, or similar (very important).
• Profound expertise in diverse types of market data.
• Strong experience with streaming systems, columnar storage, and distributed compute (e.g. Kafka/Redpanda, Parquet/ORC, Spark/Flink/Ray).
• Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or C++).
• Proven ownership of data pipelines in latency-sensitive or production-critical environments.
• Ability to work independently, break down ambiguous problems, and deliver clear outcomes.
• Strong communication skills and a leadership mindset, including mentoring, setting standards, and documenting decisions.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building or operating a Feature Store.
• Background supporting quant research (alphas, signals, features).
• Familiarity with time-series databases.
• Experience onboarding multiple exchanges or large-scale market datasets.
• Understanding of market data vendor challenges, exchange-specific nuances, entitlements, and data quality.

Additional Information:

What we offer:

• Working in a modern international technology company without bureaucracy, legacy systems, or technical debt.
• Excellent opportunities for professional growth and self-realization.
• We work remotely from anywhere in the world, with a flexible schedule.
• We offer compensation for health insurance, sports activities, and professional training.

To find out more or apply for this role, please use the following link: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/bhft-market-data-engineering-manager