Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect

About Us:

GSR is crypto’s capital markets partner, helping founders and institutions scale with confidence. With over a decade of specialized expertise, we deliver institutional-grade market making, OTC trading, and strategic venture capital to support growth at every stage.

Our value goes beyond execution. We provide access to liquidity, real-time market intelligence, and strategic guidance shaped by years operating at the center of global crypto markets. We bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets, connecting teams with the capital, market access, and insights they need to build what’s next.

About The Role:

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect with strong financial markets experience to lead the design and evolution of our data platform. Experience in at least one of Front Office (Sales & Trading), Risk Management, or Finance is required. You’ll architect and build reliable, scalable streaming and batch data products that ingest and reconcile front‑office and market data to support intraday and end‑of‑day risk, P&L, regulatory reporting, post‑trade analytics and management reporting across spot and derivatives. You’ll work across Front Office, Risk, Finance, Business Development, Operations and Compliance domains to deliver cohesive, cross‑functional data products. This is a hands‑on role with significant architectural ownership and direct stakeholder impact.

Your Responsibilities May Include:

• Design and evolve core data models and services that standardise trade, market, pricing, risk and finance data across streaming, lake/lakehouse and warehouse layers.
• Build and operate streaming and batch pipelines to capture orders, quotes, trades and market data; reconcile sources; and deliver trusted, versioned datasets for analytics, risk and finance.
• Implement robust data quality, lineage, governance and access controls; define SLAs/SLOs and data contracts to ensure reliability and auditability.
• Manage cloud‑based storage and processing (AWS preferred), optimizing for cost, performance and scalability; support time‑series and dimensional analytics.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection and playbooks for incident response, backfills and reprocess/replay.
• Partner with stakeholders across Front Office, Risk, Finance, Business Development, Operations and Compliance to translate requirements into pragmatic data products; document, review and continuously improve tooling and processes. 

What We’Re Looking For

• 8+ years in data engineering within financial markets. Experience in at least one of Front Office (Sales & Trading), Risk Management, Finance, Business Development, Operations, or Compliance is required.
• Strong programming in Python, Java and SQL; experience with Rust is a plus.
• Proven track record architecting streaming and batch ETL/ELT at scale using modern data pipeline and messaging technologies.
• Solid understanding of market/trade data lifecycles and time‑series concepts, or equivalent experience working with financial datasets.
• Hands‑on with a major cloud platform (AWS preferred) and cloud‑native data services; experience operating lake/lakehouse and warehouse architectures.
• Strong grasp of data governance, security and data quality practices, including lineage, cataloging and role‑based access.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high‑reliability systems with clear SLAs, efficient backfill/replay strategies and cost/performance optimization.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to align technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Additional Strengths

• Exposure to digital asset/crypto datasets or infrastructure, or to traditional asset classes and vendor market data.
• Familiarity with regulatory reporting and audit requirements in financial markets.
• Experience with analytics/semantic layers and BI tools.
• Operational experience with observability and on‑call for data platforms.
• Relevant cloud or data engineering certifications.

What We Offer:

• A collaborative and transparent company culture founded on Integrity, Innovation and Performance. 
• Competitive salary with two discretionary bonus payments a year.
• Benefits such as Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Retirement Planning, 30 days holiday and free lunches when in the office. 
• Regular Town Halls, team lunches and drinks. 
• A Corporate and Social Responsibility program as well as charity fundraising matching and volunteer days.   

GSR is proudly an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon any applicable legally protected characteristics such as race, religion, colour, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression or age. We operate a meritocracy, all aspects of people engagement from the decision to hire or promote as well as our performance management process will be based on the business needs and individual merit, competence in the role. Learn more about us at www.gsr.io.