Senior Data Engineer

Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: New York, NY (Remote | NY/NJ or East Coast Candidates Preferred)
Duration: 6+ Month Contract
Our client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with deep Capital Markets experience to support the design, development, and implementation of trade lifecycle data solutions. This role will focus on cloud-native data pipelines, trade processing architectures, post-trade operations, and enterprise data engineering initiatives.
Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Design and develop trade lifecycle data solutions across Capital Markets environments
• Build and maintain cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines and ingestion frameworks
• Develop .NET-based applications supporting event-driven and message-based architectures
• Support trade processing, reconciliation, settlement, and exception management initiatives
• Design scalable data models, schemas, and transaction data architectures
• Collaborate with business, operations, and technology stakeholders on enterprise data initiatives

Requirements

• 10+ years of Data Engineering experience within Capital Markets environments
• Strong experience developing ETL pipelines using .NET and deploying into Kubernetes environments
• Experience with RabbitMQ, event-driven processing, and messaging frameworks
• Strong understanding of the complete trade lifecycle including execution, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation
• Hands-on experience with DTCC platforms, specifically RTTM and Settlement Web
• Strong knowledge of ISO 15022 financial messaging standards
• Advanced experience with SQL Server, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization
• Strong experience with AWS, including S3, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and RDS