Tech Lead

Tech Lead & Spoke - Data Platform

ABOUT CFM

Founded in 1991, we are a global quantitative and systematic asset management firm applying a scientific approach to finance to develop alternative investment strategies that create value for our clients.

We value innovation, dedication, collaboration, and the ability to make an impact. Together, we create a stimulating environment for talented and passionate experts in research, technology, and business to explore new ideas and challenge existing assumptions.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Thrive
  in in a culture that values excellence and the pursuit of high-quality standards.
• Collaborate
  with a team dedicated to delivering clear and impactful results for our clients.
• Make a tangible impact
  on the financial technology landscape, responding to clients' changing needs.

Your Role: Data Platform Tech Lead

As an
Enablement Engineer
on our Data Platform team, your mission is to empower and elevate data engineers and data scientists of your perimeter. Acting as the vital
link
between
feature teams
and
platform engineers
, you will champion the
adoption
and evolution of our data platform by delivering hands-on technical support, sharing best practices, and driving knowledge sharing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Support:

• Assist data engineers and data scientists with
  technical
  challenges and support through direct interactions within their teams.
• Make sure technical debt is identified, understood and managed through. Provide
  tooling
  to help manage this debt (testing, automation, AI agents, …).
• Collaborate with data platform and support teams to
  improve
  the overall developer experience.

Evangelism:

• Promote the
  adoption
  of the data platform by a daily usage, delivering its value to existing users.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and technologies relevant to data platforms.

Upskilling teams

• Assess current team level on Data Platform tools and practices and
  improve
  it with training.
• Advertise and animate a
  community
  of practice to build improvement to showcase our Data Platform capabilities.
• Create technical content to help developers understand and utilize our platform effectively.

Feedback Loop:

• Actively gather
  feedback
  from the developer to product enhancements to the platform engineering.
• Provide relevant
  tests
  for technical assets produced by the data platform engineers and make sure they match current usages within the feature teams.
• Advocate
  for data engineers and data scientist within the company, ensuring their needs and challenges are understood and addressed.

Qualifications & Skills

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields.

At least
5 years as an Engineer, with at least 3 years dedicated to data-centric projects.

Technical Expertise:

• Proficient in Python
• Deep expertise in AWS
• Experiences in Infra-as-Code framework
• Experience with Pandas or Spark
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• CI/CD pipelines

Technological environment:

• AWS: S3, EMR, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, Cloud Formation, CDK, Lambda, Fargate, …
• Data engineering: Airflow, Parquet, Apache Iceberg
• DevOps: Jenkins, SonarQube, Conda
• Software: Python, Ruff

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

We are continuously striving to be an equal opportunity employer and we prohibit any discrimination based on sex, disability, origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, or religion. We believe that our diversity, breadth of experience, and multiple points of view are among the leading factors in our success.

CFM is a signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles.

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