Senior Data Engineer - Reference Data (Assistant Vice President)

Jefferies is looking for a highly experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the Reference Data Group within our Technology division. You will play a key role in designing, building, and managing the firm's critical reference data platforms — including Security Master, Account Master, and Counterparty Master — which underpin trading, risk, compliance, and operations across the firm.

This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role. You will work closely with business stakeholders, data consumers, and cross-functional technology teams to deliver robust, scalable, and well-governed data pipelines and platforms on modern cloud infrastructure.

Reference Data at Jefferies is foundational — the data you build and manage powers trading systems, regulatory reporting, risk models, and client-facing applications globally.

About the Team

The Reference Data Group is responsible for the authoritative master data for securities, accounts, and counterparties at Jefferies. The team manages end-to-end data ingestion from vendors and internal systems, normalization, golden record creation, and distribution to downstream consumers across the firm. We operate on a modern cloud-native stack centered on Snowflake, AWS, and Apache Airflow, and follow engineering best practices including CI/CD, code review, and automated testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for Security Master, Account Master, and Counterparty Master using Python and Apache Airflow.
• Develop and optimize complex data transformations, stored procedures, and views in Snowflake, ensuring high performance and data quality.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of reference data — from source ingestion and normalization through golden record creation and downstream distribution.
• Collaborate with data consumers across trading, risk, compliance, and operations to understand requirements and deliver reliable data products.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines using AWS services, Git, and CI/CD tooling.
• Implement data quality frameworks, lineage tracking, and monitoring to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of reference data.
• Participate in design and code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers.
• Work with vendors and external data providers (e.g. Bloomberg, Refinitiv) to onboard and manage data feeds.
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives and help drive adoption of best practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot production data issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.

Required Skills and Experience

Required:

• 7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
• Expert-level Python for data engineering and automation
• Strong Snowflake experience — SQL, stored procedures, streams, tasks, and performance tuning
• Production experience with Apache Airflow — DAG design, scheduling, dependency management
• Solid AWS cloud experience — S3, Lambda, Glue, IAM, or equivalent services
• Proficient with Git, branching strategies, pull requests, and code review workflows
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of data modelling — dimensional, relational, and hub-spoke patterns
• Experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines at scale
• Financial services experience is preferred but not required. Strong candidates from other industries with excellent data engineering credentials and a desire to learn financial domain concepts are encouraged to apply.

Nice to have:

• Experience with financial reference data — Security Master, Counterparty, or Account data
• Knowledge of financial instruments — equities, fixed income, derivatives, or FX
• Familiarity with data vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, or FactSet
• Experience with data governance, lineage tools, or metadata management
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Exposure to Kafka or event-driven data architectures
• Experience in a regulated financial services environment

Core Competencies

• Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders including business analysts, traders, and senior management.
• Collaboration: Strong team player who works effectively across engineering, business, and operations teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem Solving: Analytical mindset with a track record of diagnosing complex data quality and pipeline issues in production environments.
• Ownership: Takes end-to-end accountability for data products — from design through delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Adaptability: Comfortable managing multiple priorities and adapting to changing business requirements in a dynamic financial services environment.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on high-visibility, firm-critical data infrastructure used across global trading and operations.
• Collaborative, engineering-led culture with strong emphasis on code quality, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Access to modern cloud tooling and the opportunity to influence platform architecture decisions.
• Exposure to a wide range of financial products and business domains across a leading global investment bank.

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