Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer (Financial) | Global Private Investment Firm | $220k USD + Bonus | Abu Dhabi

Durlston Partners is working with one of the world’s largest private investment firms, which is building its data team in Abu Dhabi. This seat sits upstream of everything: if the data is wrong, every model and decision built on it is wrong too. You’ll make sure that never happens.

You’ll be the person researchers, investment teams and AI engineers trust to tell them the data is right, and to tell them when it isn’t.

What the role demands

• 3+ years building production data pipelines in Python and SQL
• Real experience with financial market data from vendors
• An instinct for point-in-time correctness and avoiding look-ahead bias
• Comfort across equities, rates, FX, futures and options, and how each trades
• Hands-on database design and ownership, not just querying
• CI/CD experience for data workflows

What you’ll be doing

• Turning messy vendor feeds into clean, trusted, research-ready datasets
• Owning reference data and solving identifier mapping across providers
• Building the monitoring and quality checks that catch issues before anyone else does
• Opening up new sources, including alternative data from text, audio and video

The package

• Up to 220k USD base plus bonus, tax-free
• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
• Five days a week in the Abu Dhabi office, alongside the investment and research teams

If you’ve built financial data pipelines that researchers trust and want to own the data foundation at a world-class investment firm, reach out to jaynair@durlstonpartners.com for a confidential conversation.