Trading Data Platform Lead

CyprusHybridLead

Limassol

Join our dynamic team at IC as a Trading Data Platform Lead and help shape the future of FinTech innovation. This full-time, on-site opportunity based in Limassol offers you the chance to make a real impact in a fast-paced and forward-thinking environment. Apply now and take the next step in your career with us!

We are hiring a Trading Data Platform Lead to drive the development and ongoing improvement of IC’s near-real-time data platform. Your mandate is to ensure that data pipelines are reliable, appropriately monitored, failures are identified promptly, and data is maintained to a standard that enables stakeholders to rely on consistent and well documented information. You will work with a live and growing data environment and be accountable for its engineering discipline, reliability and continues development. This is a senior individual-contributor role with real ownership, working alongside quant researchers and quant developers and reporting to the Head of the Intelligence function.

What You’ll Do:

Data platform management: Lead the development, maintenance and reliability of a data platform supporting the ingestion of data from trading servers, bridges and liquidity-provider feeds, as well as its transformation, storage and serving though ClickHouse and Snowflake.
Data reconciliation and integrity: Establish and maintain reconciliation processes to compare information across relevant source systems and data environments, identify variances and ensure material discrepancies are appropriately documented and escalated to the relevant team.
Data observability: Develop and maintain monitoring, data-quality controls, schema- change governance, alerting and operational procedures across production component.
Engineering standards: Establish and maintain appropriate engineering practises, including version control, CI/CD, testing, code review, and documentation for data pipelines and related infrastructure.
Platform development: Design scalable and reusable data solutions that support evolving analytical and reporting requirements across the IC Companies.
Cross-functional support: Work closely with quantitative, technology and analytical teams to translate analytical requirements into reliable and performant data models and solutions, while maintaining data integrity and quality.
Knowledge and continuity: Maintain appropriate documentation, knowledge transfer and cross-training to ensure that data-platform processes and services can be operated and supported by multiple team members.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience building and operating production data systems

Several years owning a production trading data platform at a broker, proprietary trading firm, market maker, bridge or trading-technology vendor, or exchange- adjacent business.

Deep, hands-on ClickHouse: MergeTree engine family, deduplication and FINAL semantics, partitioning, TTL, materialized views, performance tuning under high- cardinality tick and trade data.

Production Snowflake experience.
Orchestration and streaming in production — Airflow or Dagster, Kafka, change-data- capture — with version-controlled transformations (dbt or equivalent) and CI/CD for data.
Trading data fluency: deals versus positions, partial closes, netting and hedging accounts, swaps and commissions, symbol and contract mapping, server time versus UTC, rollover and weekend edge cases, MT4/MT5 server data structures, bridge and LP fill logs, FIX drop copies.
A reconciliation mindset: you have built and run platform-to-warehouse recs and know where the bodies are buried.
Strong Python; comfortable in SQL at depth.
Clear written communication — runbooks, data contracts, incident write-ups.

Nice to Have

Experience in the financial market or comparable environment
Experience working with complex transactional or financial-market datasets and associated analytical systems.
Systems-language experience (Go, Rust, C++).
Prior experience strengthening a fragile, complex or single-operator data environment.

Working Schedule: Monday to Friday: 09:00 – 17:00 (Hybrid model after 2 months – 3 days from office, 2 days from home)

Why Join Us? Experience Rewards Beyond Just a Job! Because You Matter.

Competitive Pay – We value you, not just your role. Our compensation reflects the skills and experience you bring to the table.
Career Growth – Your journey is important. We’re here to support your development with ongoing learning and clear paths to advancement.
Work-Life Balance – Time to rest is time to thrive. With 22 days of annual leave, your personal life is respected and prioritized.
Wellness & Healthcare – Health comes first. Enjoy 12 paid sick days and full medical insurance coverage after 6 months, because your well-being is our priority.
Future Security – We’re invested in your tomorrow. Participate in our Group Savings and Life Insurance Plan after 6 months.
Snack Hub – We care about your daily comfort. Our fully stocked kitchen keeps you energized with fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages.
Lunch on Us – Nourishment and connection matter. Enjoy a delicious daily lunch buffet with teammates.
Paid Overtime – Your extra effort doesn’t go unnoticed. We recognize and reward the time you put in.
Learning & Development – We believe in your potential. Dedicated budgets support your upskilling and curiosity.
Referral Bonus – People matter here. Bring in great talent and get rewarded for growing our community.
Team Spirit – Culture is everything. Join a team that celebrates together through events and team-building activities.
MadBenefits - An exclusive employee perk platform offering hundreds of discounts on dining, retail, entertainment, and everyday essentials.
Fitness & Recreation – Stay active and refreshed with access to gym facilities, organized sports, and relaxing spa treatments.
Unwind Fridays – We’re human too. Enjoy a relaxed Friday drink with colleagues to close the week on a high note.