Tower Research Capital
Senior Data Analyst
$230K–$250K
New York +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- New York
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional experience in data engineering; preferably in a Hedge Fund, Asset Manager, or FinTech.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
About the job
Build and operate reliable financial data pipelines and AI/ML workflows that deliver accurate, production-ready data to trading and research teams.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain batch and real-time pipelines; onboard datasets and integrate vendor APIs.
- Productionize AI/ML workflows for extracting, classifying, and processing unstructured financial data; evaluate and monitor models.
- Own investment data models and implement validation, anomaly detection, and reconciliation for trading data feeds.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional experience in data engineering; financial-industry experience preferred.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Expert-level Python proficiency, including Pandas, NumPy, and async frameworks, and advanced SQL.
- Production experience applying AI or ML to data problems and hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with financial instruments and datasets from Bloomberg, S&P, or LSEG; distributed computing or streaming technologies.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, LLM evaluation, AI for financial documents, and cloud data platforms.
Pay
USD $230,000 - $250,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, Pandas, NumPy, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, AWS
AI focus
Productionize AI/ML workflows for financial document and alternative-data extraction, classification, and processing; evaluate model quality, monitor failures, and use AI to accelerate mapping, documentation, and QA.
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