BHFT: Market Data Engineering Manager

Salary: Not specified

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

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Are you a skilled data engineer with a passion for the fast-paced world of trading? Do you thrive in a hands-on technical leadership role, with the opportunity to shape and influence a company's technology stack? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

BHFT is a global trading company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. We are currently building a cutting-edge data platform to support systematic trading across 10+ exchanges worldwide. As a Market Data Engineering Manager, you will lead our Data Engineering team responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving all market, reference, and alternative data with low latency and high reliability. You will also have ownership over our Feature Store, which powers our live trading systems and research pipeline.

About BHFT:

We are a modern and international technology company with a focus on systematic trading. Our team is made up of innovative and driven individuals who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of the trading industry. We value a culture of collaboration, agility, and continuous learning. At BHFT, you will have the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world, with a flexible schedule and excellent opportunities for professional growth and self-realization.

Role 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, translating business and research needs into clear roadmaps, execution plans, and engineering standards.
• 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 of experience in Data Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
• Prior experience in trading, HFT, systematic hedge fund, crypto exchange, or similar is highly preferred.
• 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.

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