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Senior Data Engineer (Quant & Alternative Data) Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (relocation support provided) Compensation: Highly competitive, fully guaranteed The Role We are building a data engineering function to support quantitative research and production teams working with large-scale financial and alternative data. The work involves messy, evolving datasets, performance-sensitive pipelines, and open-ended technical problems. Much of the stack is built in-house and largely greenfield. What You’ll Do • Design and build scalable data pipelines, • Own datasets end-to-end, from ingestion and validation to downstream delivery, • Develop ingestion, transformation, and quality-control frameworks, • Build tooling to support research and experimentation, • Optimise data systems for correctness, reliability, and performance, • Collaborate closely with researchers, quants, and data scientists This Role Is a Good Fit If You • Strong Python and SQL skills, comfortable working close to raw data, • Experience building and operating modern data pipelines, • Exposure to research-, trading-, or decision-critical systems, • Independent thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, • Preference for hands-on technical ownership Ideal Background • Systematic funds, quantitative asset managers, HFTs, or trading firms, • FinTechs or financial data providers, • Smaller teams with broad ownership and responsibility, • Strong early-career profiles with clear technical depth Compensation & Benefits • Fully guaranteed, competitive compensation, • Education allowance for dependent children, • 30 working days of annual leave, plus public holidays, • Comprehensive healthcare for employee and family, • Business class relocation flights, • Joining and departure allowances The role is on-site in Abu Dhabi. Short-term remote work during peak summer months is supported. The working model prioritises sustainability and focused technical work. Send your CV and a brief summary to