About the Role
GLG is seeking a Data Operations Engineer with 2-3 years of experience to join their Data Operations team. This role focuses on building, operating, and troubleshooting data pipelines and integrations that power GLG's platforms and reporting, ensuring reliable data flow.
Responsibilities
- Build, run, and maintain data pipelines, imports, and integrations that feed GLG’s platforms and reporting.
- Write and optimize SQL to move, transform, and validate data across sources.
- Monitor scheduled jobs, triage failures, and resolve data-quality and data-accuracy issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into reliable data deliverables.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and queries.
- Contribute to runbooks, documentation, and operational best practices.
- Stay curious about new tools and approaches.
Requirements
- 2–3 years of experience in a data operations, data engineering, or similar data-focused role.
- Strong SQL and a solid understanding of relational databases.
- Proficiency in a scripting language (Python preferred) for data manipulation and automation.
- Solid grasp of data fundamentals — modeling, transformation, data quality.
- An inquisitive, generalist mindset — eager to learn systems end-to-end rather than staying in one niche.
- Experience using Claude, Copilot, Opencode and other AI toolsets.
- Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in an iterative, collaborative environment.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Data modeling
- Data transformation
- Data quality
- Cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake)
- Workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow)
- Search/indexing platforms (e.g., OpenSearch)
- AWS cloud platform
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps practices
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-3 years
Salary/Compensations
- $101,500—$122,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment
- Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)
- Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses
- Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways
- Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location
About the Company
- GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise.
- We connect global decision-makers—from hedge fund managers and private equity partners to strategy leaders at Fortune 500s—with the specific, authoritative voices required to answer their most critical questions.
- At GLG, you are an extension of our clients' core teams.
- You will work at the intersection of industries and global markets, navigating high-stakes challenges across the full spectrum of their strategic initiatives.
- Operating within the industry’s most trusted research environment, you’ll help our clients capture the nuanced perspectives that drive smarter, faster business outcomes.
- We are a global team of pragmatic problem-solvers who mirror the intensity of the markets we serve.
- If you are driven by intellectual curiosity and a bias toward action, join us in reinventing the industry we invented.
Equal Opportunity
- Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
