Risk Data Engineer - C#

Job Description

The RoleWe are seeking a highly motivated and experienced engineer to join the Risk Data Tech team within Man Technology. You will have the chance to boost your career in a fast-paced and ambitious team that strives to create state-of-the-art tools for a range of data-relatedactivities including onboarding, analysis, sourcing, quality checking, and lifecycle management. We dont just have a standard data warehouse - our data estate is varied and highly optimised to deliver the needs of the business. Your challenges will be varied,involving:

• Developing and maintaining core tools for analysts, quants, and engineers to on-board and analyse datasets at multi-terabyte-scale.
• Collaborating with Risk Officers and with other Engineering teams to design and develop solutions for Risk for the whole Man Group or for specific needs for an engine or a strategy.
• Collaborating with Man Data Engineering team as we design and develop unique, bespoke solutions to solve our big data challenges - we work on 200 Terabyte of data and we own the main services that onboard vendor Risk data to support Man Investments.
• Designing and implementing strategies and tools to monitor and validate the data quality and data processing.
• Working with front office engineering teams as they leverage our data platform.

Our TechnologyOur systems are mostly running on Windows and most of our code is in .NET (C#). Our services use multithreading and semaphores to optimize the impact on memory. Our first data storage is in SQL Server and we are starting to use ArcticDb for our largest datasets. Part of our work is also in Linux with Python code, using pandas and other libraries to support visualization and data processing. Our platform inherits from old tools and services, so we use many old technologies (Remoting, MSMQ, WCF, Winforms, WPF) while we migrate to new tools (.NET Core 8, Kafka, REST APIs, React, Arrow Flight). Our devops is based on Bitbucket and Teamcity (Jenkins for our Python stack), using Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection. We are moving parts of our services into Docker for containerisation and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries. Working HereMan Tech has a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do. We are actively engaged with the broader technology community. We have recently restructured our Tech teams into a large department that provides tools and services to all parts of the business. Man Group is well known for its attitude towards technology and its a champion for technology excellence. Working in Man meanshaving the opportunity to specialize in specific business areas or cutting-edge technologies, or the ability to move internally to different areas and contribute to the business in different ways along the years.

• We host and sponsor Londons PyData and Machine Learning Meetups
• We open-source some of our technology. See https://man-group
• We regularly talk at leading industry conferences, and tweet about relevant technology and how were using it. See @ManQuantTech

Were fortunate enough to have a fantastic open-plan office overlooking the River Thames, and continually strive to make our environment a great place in which to work.

• We organise regular social events, everything from photography through climbing, karting, wine tasting and monthly team lunches.
• As well as PCs and Macs, in our office youll also find numerous pieces of cool tech such as light cubes and 3D printers, guitars, ping-pong and table-football, and a piano.

We offer competitive compensation, a generous holiday allowance, various health and other flexible benefits. We are also committed to continuous learning and development via coaching, mentoring, regular conference attendance and sponsoring academic and professionalqualifications. Technology and Business SkillsWe strive to hire only the brightest, best and most highly skilled, passionate technologists. Essential

• Extensive programming experience, ideally in .NET.
• Knowledge of the challenges of dealing with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
• Knowledge of modern practices for ETL, data engineering and stream processing
• Proficient on Windows platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages, with exposure to Linux environments
• Working knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. SQL Server

Advantageous

• Prior experience of working with financial market data or alternative data
• Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g. statistics, time-series analysis
• Experience with Python, Kubernetes, S3 or Kafka.
• Experience in data visualisation and building web apps in modern frameworks e.g. React
• Experience with git and continuous integration environments.

Personal Attributes

• Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics.
• Craftsman-like approach to building software; takes pride in engineering excellence and instils these values in others.
• Demonstrable passion for technology e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement.
• Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving.
• Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities.
• Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with analysts, quantitative researchers, traders and senior businesspeople alike.
• Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equality of opportunity. At Man Group we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business, and this isembedded in our culture and values. We run a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and encourage diversity and inclusion across our firm and industry. https://diversity. Man Group