Financial Data Engineer
Listed on 2026-07-18
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering
Full job description
Hull Tactical is seeking a data manager to join our growing equity options team to build and manage daily data processes. The mission is to curate and analyze fundamental and sentiment data (news, social, Reddit, etc.) to anticipate market movements in US listed companies including “meme” stocks. Practical experience managing a “fundamental data” store is necessary for a candidate to be successful.
“Fundamental data” means information about individual US stocks and options that is updated at most daily. Examples are:
- Corporate actions, such as dividends and splits
- Symbol name changes
- Industry sector mapping and changes
- Earnings dates
Fundamental data is mostly sourced from vendors such as Fact Set, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters or EOD Historical Data. Some of the fundamental data is derived in‑house from intraday data including trading volume, open interest, and aggregated tick data.
Position Location:
Chicago, IL
- Experience with fundamental data from vendors such as Fact Set, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, EOD Historical Data
- Experience with basic relational modeling and SQL
- Practical experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar databases
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Basic Linux command line skills and familiarity with simple Bash scripts
- Python scripting to build and maintain data ingestion pipelines
- Experience with Pandas and with Python database scripting
- Managing daily recurring data processing jobs with tools such as cron, rundeck, etc.
- Python programming
- Experience using git, feature branches and automated testing
- Experience with generating data for reporting tools using Python
- Prior experience working on a fundamental data team
- Ability to identify and correct performance bottlenecks
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, information technology or related field
- Competitive financial rewards with further upside tied to individual, team, and firm performance
- Employee benefits that include exceptional insurance and 401K matching program
- Friendly and collegial work environment
- Opportunity to learn from successful industry experts
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