Engineering Manager

PEAK6•New York City, NY

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsibilities: Responsible for leading and managing a cross functional team that creates high quality, trusted data for our trading business. Utilize extensive knowledge in financial engineering and economics to further develop and improve our tech-based solutions for our traders to identify and validate new signals as well as sourcing commodity datasets from vendors. Be responsible for the following: Direct daily operations of department with Product Managers to help analyze workflow, establish priorities, develop standards, and set deadlines to write User Stories and fuel discovery for the team; Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and the team to continuously encourage to invest in their delivery process to remove friction and increase developer experience; Collaborate with staff engineers and architects to define technical standards and direction; Identify and remove bottlenecks as well as connecting engineers across teams; Support team’s current delivery of working software, while balancing time by also collaborating with product managers and traders to prepare the backlog of upcoming projects; and Drive the career development of team members including mentoring junior engineers, aligning opportunities to engineers to make cases for promotions and continuously giving feedback. Position supervises 6 employees. Educ./experience: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer and informationtechnology, financial engineering or related field, plus two (2) years of post-baccalaureate experience as an Investment Advisor, Market Research & Strategy Analyst, or related position within the finance field. Experience must include: R, Python, Matlab; Excel for financial modeling; Dataiku; Tableau; SQL; and Linear and non-linear portfolio optimization techniques.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer and informationtechnology, financial engineering or related field, plus two (2) years of post-baccalaureate experience as an Investment Advisor, Market Research & Strategy Analyst, or related position within the finance field.
Experience must include: R, Python, Matlab; Excel for financial modeling; Dataiku; Tableau; SQL; and Linear and non-linear portfolio optimization techniques.

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading and managing a cross functional team that creates high quality, trusted data for our trading business.
Utilize extensive knowledge in financial engineering and economics to further develop and improve our tech-based solutions for our traders to identify and validate new signals as well as sourcing commodity datasets from vendors.
Direct daily operations of department with Product Managers to help analyze workflow, establish priorities, develop standards, and set deadlines to write User Stories and fuel discovery for the team
Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and the team to continuously encourage to invest in their delivery process to remove friction and increase developer experience
Collaborate with staff engineers and architects to define technical standards and direction
Identify and remove bottlenecks as well as connecting engineers across teams
Support team’s current delivery of working software, while balancing time by also collaborating with product managers and traders to prepare the backlog of upcoming projects
Drive the career development of team members including mentoring junior engineers, aligning opportunities to engineers to make cases for promotions and continuously giving feedback.