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About the Role
Eclipse Trading is seeking an experienced Team Lead to establish and lead a new Data Systems Team. This team will be responsible for building the company's next-generation data platform, encompassing orchestration, storage, data access, and governance at scale to support research and real-time trading operations.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performance Data Systems Team, including mentoring and career development.
- Define and deliver Eclipse’s data platform roadmap, balancing business and technical priorities.
- Design and implement a centralized data framework and the supporting applications.
- Develop robust, maintainable, and high-performing data pipelines.
- Drive performance optimizations across both hardware and software for quant research and regulatory data retention.
- Manage, maintain, and expand dedicated hardware infrastructure for data systems.
- Ensure reliability, uptime, and effective capacity planning for data workloads.
- Partner with stakeholders across research, trading, and engineering to align data workflows with business needs.
- Standardize ingestion, schema management, lineage, permissions, and audit processes.
- Investigate upstream data sources, identify root causes of data issues, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a Data Systems Engineer delivering production data platforms, with 2+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize data pipelines and distributed systems in production.
- Deep data platform fundamentals, including batch and streaming processing, scalable table/metadata formats, object storage, and SQL.
- Hands-on experience building scalable ingestion and orchestration workflows, e.g., reliable scheduling, dependency management, backfills, and recovery.
- Experience with modern data architecture patterns and making tradeoffs across performance, reliability, and cost.
- Solid understanding of data storage and file/table lifecycle management.
- Ability to make architectural decisions across IT solutions, system design, and implementation—ensuring maintainability and extensibility.
- Demonstrated track record of improving reliability and operational excellence for data systems.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with strong roadmap ownership and the ability to align engineering delivery with business needs.
- Ability to drive large-scale change while iterating safely—planning rollouts, learning from outcomes, and adjusting direction when required.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with high attention to detail, including root-cause analysis of data/system issues.
- Prior experience in quant trading or financial services is highly desirable.
- University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Skills
- Data Systems Engineering
- Data Platform Development
- Orchestration
- Data Storage
- Data Access
- Data Governance
- Batch Processing
- Streaming Processing
- Scalable Table/Metadata Formats
- Object Storage
- SQL
- Ingestion Workflows
- Scheduling
- Dependency Management
- Backfills
- Recovery
- IT Solutions Architecture
- System Design
- Stakeholder Communication
- Roadmap Ownership
- Problem-Solving
- Root-Cause Analysis
Location
- Hong Kong
- Sydney
- Shanghai
- Chicago
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience as a Data Systems Engineer
- 2+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams
Education Level
- University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Benefits
- Mentorship and training opportunities
- Flat management structure
- Work life balance
- Fully stocked kitchen for breakfast and lunch
- Attractive benefits package with discretionary bonus
About the Company
- Eclipse Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm founded in 2007 with over 120 employees across Hong Kong, Sydney, Shanghai, and Chicago.
- Our trading expertise and strategies are deployed across several markets globally, focusing on various products including equity derivatives, delta one, ETFs, commodity derivatives, and cryptocurrency.
- Technology is inextricably linked to our trading strategies, creating an environment powered by intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- Eclipse Trading is an equal opportunity employer and we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential pillars of our success as a company.
- We are dedicated to embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation.
- We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential.