Senior Data Engineer

NinjaTrader

Sr. Data Engineer at NinjaTrader designing and operationalizing data platforms for analytics and AI initiatives.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeChicago • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $100,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowApacheAWSBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing
Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early
Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis
Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
Collaborate with analytics, product, and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
Promote high standards in code quality, testing, and platform reliability
Participate in Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development
Strong skills in SQL and Python for building and testing data solutions
Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, etc.)
Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis) in addition to GCP; bonus for EMR
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g., Terraform, GitOps)
Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects (models, tests, macros, documentation, CI)
Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect)
Knowledge of data lake architecture, including file formats (Parquet, Avro) and open table formats (Apache Iceberg)
Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architecture
A track record of building automated, well-tested, and observable data systems
Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced Agile environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous PTO
7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
1 Service Day Annually
401k with 3.5% Company Match
Paid Parental Bonding Leave
Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythonETLELTdbtGCPAWSCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeworkflow orchestration

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingteamworkadaptabilitygrowth-oriented mindsetindependenceattention to detailcode qualitytesting

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering