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Reports to:
Vice President, Engineering
About the Role
This is a pivotal, high-profile role where you'll leverage data to directly drive business growth and innovation within the finance and treasury domains. You'll be instrumental in managing the group's balance sheet and exposing critical financial insights, ultimately enhancing risk management, operational efficiency, and profitability through actionable intelligence. A key responsibility will be to provide senior management with a clear understanding of the group's asset performance, encompassing all business units and investments in DeFi protocols.
Success requires a strong grasp of financial markets and products, and the ability to balance rapid prototyping with strategic data modeling to inform critical senior-level decisions. A background in both traditional finance and DeFi finance would be highly beneficial. While primarily focused on specific data initiatives, you'll also play a key role in the broader mission of democratizing data and AI/ML technologies across the group, enabling informed decision-making. You'll contribute to the ongoing development of a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data platform that supports CoinDesk, CoinDesk Data, and Bullish Exchange.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement data marts and common data models specifically tailored to support the finance/treasury domains.
- Gain a deep understanding of end-to-end data models and workflows within the finance/treasury domains.
- Continuously identify opportunities for cost optimization, address functional/non-functional issues through test automation, compute analysis, and performance profiling.
- Actively research and propose open-source and vendor solutions that can accelerate the achievement of business objectives.
- Maintain high standards for code quality, organization, and adherence to best practices.
- Work effectively as part of a global team spanning Hong Kong, New York, and London.
Qualifications
- A pragmatic technologist with a strong sense of end-to-end ownership that thinks front and foremost about how the application of technology can accelerate delivering on business objectives.
- Computer Science or related degree with 2+ years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with Python.
- Hands-on experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Looker.
- Strong SQL skills. Strong analytical skills.
- Hands-on experience with SQL/no-SQL databases such as Redis, Postgres, Singlestore and MongoDB.
- Familiarity with big data technologies and data lake ecosystems e.g. Databricks, Snowflake etc.
- Well versed in designing data structures, event schemas and database schemas.
- Well versed in file formats such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro and Iceberg.
- Solid and opinionated knowledge of testing methodologies.
- Solid and opinionated knowledge of coding principles and coding standards.
- Well versed with standard SDLC practices and tooling around build, test, deploy etc.
- Ability to operate and thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
- Passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring.
- Eligibility to work in London.
Bonus Experience
- Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with Airflow, DBT, REST API, Kubernetes, Istio and Docker.
- Experience delivering simple web based UIs to visualize data.
- Experience working with petabyte datasets.
- Experience with middleware such as Chronicle Queue, Aeron, RabbitMQ and Kafka.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
In an effort to attract, retain, develop and promote the most qualified individuals, CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, education, social and recreation programs, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits.
ACCOMMODATION
CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@coindesk.comand let us know the nature of your request.
