We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, PySpark, and cloud-based data platforms to support the development, migration, and optimization of our enterprise data platform within the investment domain.
This role will focus on building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and lakehouse data models that support investment analytics, portfolio management, risk analysis, and trading data workflows.
The successful candidate will work closely with data engineers, quantitative analysts, and investment stakeholders to deliver high-quality, reliable, and performant data solutions. Experience with financial datasets such as market data, portfolio holdings, transactions, pricing data, and risk metrics is highly valuable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and transformation workflows using Databricks, PySpark, and SQL.
- Support the migration of datasets, pipelines, and transformation logic from Palantir Foundry to Databricks Delta Lake.
- Work with investment and financial datasets, including market data, portfolio positions, transactions, pricing data, and risk metrics.
- Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines that enable data availability for investment analytics, reporting, and portfolio management systems.
- Implement data validation, reconciliation, and quality frameworks to ensure financial data accuracy and consistency.
- Optimize Spark jobs, cluster configurations, and storage formats to improve performance and cost efficiency.
- Maintain data lineage, documentation, and governance practices to meet financial industry standards.
- Support monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of production data pipelines.
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Mandatory Skills:
- Advanced Databricks Experience. Deep knowledge of Databricks architecture, Delta Lake, job orchestration, cluster management, and performance tuning.
- Experience working with investment data, such as market data, portfolio holdings, transactions, pricing data, risk metrics, and financial instruments
- Expert-Level PySpark & Python Skills. Strong ability to design, optimize, and refactor distributed data processing workflows.
- Advanced SQL & Data Modelling Expertise. Experience in dimensional modeling, lakehouse architecture patterns, and query optimization.
- Cloud Platform Experience (Azure preferred). Hands-on experience deploying and managing data platforms in cloud environments, including storage, security, and networking considerations.
- Strong Hands-on Expertise in Palantir Foundry. Proven experience with Foundry pipelines, ontologies, data lineage, transformations, and platform governance.
- Proven Migration Experience from Palantir / to Databricks. Demonstrated experience leading or executing platform migrations, including pipeline conversion, data model redesign, and production cutover.
- Familiarity with Dynatrace or Datadog for system observability and monitoring.
- Databricks certification, cloud certifications (Azure/AWS), or enterprise data architecture certifications.
Luxoft DXC
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Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a global digital strategy and software engineering firm with over 17,000 international employees within its 58 offices in 29 countries. It is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
In January 2019, Luxoft was acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology. Luxoft partnered with LG Electronics to create a next-generation Autonomous Mobility concept vehicle that integrates consumers' personalized digital lifestyles into a driving experience. Luxoft enabled Switzerland's first Blockchain based e-vote platform with the City of Zug and Hochschule Luzern's Blockchain Lab.
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a world-renowned company. It has been present on the Polish market for over 13 years. We have offices in Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Gdansk. We employ over 2,000 professional experts carrying out projects for over 100 clients from the financial, automotive, medical, tourist industries, etc. We work for many international clients, including the USA, Great Britain, and Switzerland.
So far, Luxoft Poland has made a name for itself as a company that offers work on innovative projects, we offer various experiences in the field of IT, opportunities for rapid development, an extensive training program, and attractive benefits for employees.
At present, 62% of Luxoft Poland employees come from Poland, and 38% from around 50 countries, including Ukraine, Brazil, India, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, USA, etc.
At Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company almost 80 percent of employees are experts with the "Senior" experience level, with at least five years of experience. We care about our employees, so every day we try to provide them with the best possible conditions for work and development.
Technology is our passion! We focus on top engineering talent means that you will be working with the best industry professionals from around the world. Because of that, Luxoft is a global family with an epic atmosphere – we love what we do!