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Sr. Data Engineer
What you'll do: Your data-driven mindset and ability to work with large-scale data systems enable NinjaTrader to serve customers better, identify new opportunities, and improve processes. As an accomplished data engineer joining the Data & Analytics team, this is a terrific opportunity to become part of a fast-growing, revolutionary fintech company shaping the future of retail futures trading.
At NinjaTrader, you'll play a key role in designing and operationalizing the modern data platform that powers our analytics, trading tools, and AI initiatives. This role is remote-friendly and reports to the Manager, Data & Analytics Engineering.
As a Sr. Data Engineer, your primary responsibility is to stay one step ahead of your fellow team members by providing the platform, tools, and infrastructure they need to deliver deployable solutions to real-world business problems. This goes beyond maintaining pipelines—it's about delivering best-in-class data architecture, scalable workflows, and real-time solutions that power trading, product development, and machine learning.
In this role you will: Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing
Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early
Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis
Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
Collaborate with analytics, product, and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
Promote high standards in code quality, testing, and platform reliability
Participate in Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture
What you'll need: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development
Strong skills in SQL and Python for building and testing data solutions
Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, etc.)
Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis) in addition to GCP; bonus for EMR
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g., Terraform, GitOps)
Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects (models, tests, macros, documentation, CI)
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