Platform Engineer for Data Visualization

Company Description

Options Group is a leading global executive search and strategic consulting firm specializing in financial services including capital markets, global markets, alternative investments, hedge funds, and private banking/wealth management.

For more than 25 years, our clients and candidates have come to know that Options Group always exceeds expectations. Our innovative approach to facilitating limitless search possibilities for our clients and candidates around the world has been recognized as the industry standard. Through our global footprint (15 offices spread across 4 continents), Options Group has the resources, analytics and experience to drive the acquisition of top tier talent for firms of any size. Options Group is on the forefront, pioneering a new generation of human talent management solutions, where research meets recruiting for optimal strategic results. OG is hands-on in providing a superior range of innovative options for financial services & tech clients and candidates.

Job Description

Job Requirements:
 At least 3 years of experience in web-based visualization development
 Ability and strong interest in communication through creative visualizations to audiences with varying degrees of technical sophistication
 Experience in developing with JavaScript visualization libraries as well as Tableau or other data visualization platforms to create interactive data visualizations and exploration capabilities for end users is a must
 Python programming experience is a plus

 Strong communication and presentation skills and a willingness to collaborate with others is a must
 Experience or demonstrated interest in Hadoop and other big data technologies is a plus
 Excel VBA and Excel plugin development a plus
 Familiarity with Equity markets or financial industry is a plus

Qualifications

Aperio Platform Engineers design and build solutions for processing big and unstructured data sets at Point72. Our team works closely with portfolio managers and data scientists to understand the potential business value of data sets and ultimately build data processing pipelines around those data sources. The platform engineer for visualization will have a focus on automating and enhancing existing data exploration and visualization capabilities for our end users while building core frameworks that allow our modeling team to deliver new analysis across a growing number of data sources to end users in an agile fashion.
 Build and support visualization and exploration capabilities around our big data sets
 Work in an Agile fashion with business users and data scientists to discover the potential business value of new and existing data sources and visualize those discoveries into Aperio products
 Maintain knowledge of new technology developments and conduct proof of concepts to evaluate new technologies in the area of data visualization and exploration
 Create standards for and maintain a reporting focused data warehouse
 Promote best practices for big data visualization at the firm

Additional Information

Interested candidates please contact

Abhishek Agarwal

aagarwal(at)optionsgroup.com