Senior Data Engineer, Stoxx
Investment intelligence solutions
Job no longer available
Investment intelligence solutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with investors and wealth managers to optimize their clients’ investment impact.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Python development, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a strong understanding of serverless architecture patterns
- While familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL is beneficial, the primary focus of this role is designing and building scalable, cloud-native solutions using Python within a modern data and application ecosystem
- Python mastery: Deep understanding of design patterns, OOP, and Pythonic code
- FastAPI expertise: 4+ years building high-performance APIs
- Data processing: Expert-level Pandas, Polars, NumPy and optimization techniques for large datasets
- Cloud platforms: Hands-on with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure including containerization, Cloud functions/serverless compute
- Database proficiency: Excellent Oracle PLSQL and RDBMS experience (Oracle)
- Scheduling: Experience with Control-M or other scheduling tools
- ETL knowledge : Exposure with Informatica Powercenter
- Business domain : Indexing knowledge beneficial
- Deployment : Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- A high motivation to support and operate a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
- Excellent analytical skills
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
- Additionally, you need to be a team player with good communication skills, highly motivated, flexible and show willingness to learn and adopt new technologies quickly
What the job involves
- The ICOS Development team within our Index business is responsible for the application development and maintenance of key components of the index calculation platform
- You will strengthen the ICOS Development team by designing and implementing serverless, event-driven, and microservices-based architectures on GCP
- This includes developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, data processing pipelines, and APIs using services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage
- You will play a key role in evolving system and data architecture within a complex business process and data warehouse environment, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient
- Designing and developing Python-based services and FastAPI-driven APIs in a GCP environment
- Building and maintaining serverless applications and event-driven integrations
- Implementing and optimizing data architectures leveraging BigQuery and other managed GCP services
- Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Implementation of complex business rules and index concepts
- Mentor and coach team members in Python best practices, cloud-native design on GCP, and serverless architecture patterns, fostering high code quality and scalable solution design
- Maintenance and design of a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
- Technical design documentation
- Design and execution of test strategies
- Provide 1st line/2nd line application support primarily for the ICOS systems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
STOXX, part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, is the administrator of the renowned STOXX and DAX indices which are are licensed to more than 550 companies around the world. The company has existed in some form since 1997, notably operating as Quontigo from 2019 to 2023 (when it found its place with ISS).
Although STOXX keeps its customer base under wraps, it claims to work with some of the world’s largest asset management companies and financial institutions. It has received a massive amount of industry recognition and awards and, alongside its sibling ISS STOXX divisions, is solidly a key player in the space.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2019
$720m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $720m
Company HQ
Main-Taunus, Eschborn, Germany
Leadership
Gary Retelny
(President & CEO (ISS STOXX))Has been in their current position since 2011. Formerly Managing Director at MSCI Inc.
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