Data Engineer

Overview:

We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you — offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day. 

Data Insight Solutions team is at the forefront of Chatham’s innovation initiatives. Sitting at the nexus of product, technology, and advisory, Data Insight Solutions aims to enhance Chatham’s capacity to deliver data-driven insight to our clients. The team’s multi-disciplinary skillset, that encompasses both finance and technology with additional focus on data-driven storytelling, enables Data Insight Solutions to synthesize murky vision into crystal-clear insight on which clients can make strategic capital market decisions.

 In this role, you will:

• Actively make contributions to the growth of our team, data infrastructure, and product offerings.
• Prototype and build new / experimental data pipelines using Python, Azure, and Snowflake.
• Build tools to automate data sourcing / wrangling.
• Transfer data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis.
• Creatively develop technical solutions to complex data and reporting problems.
• Implement and support scalable data infrastructures optimized for reporting needs.
• Design scalable data models / data schema in PowerBI.
• Collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders (consultants, technology, and product teams) to build and deliver cutting-edge reporting and data analysis solutions.
• Collaborate with product teams to productionize the reports for thousands of our clients.

Your impact: 

• You will work with individuals and teams across Chatham to provide our clients with innovative and insightful data analysis solutions. Recent examples of projects include working with capital markets team at a large PE fund, building an executive level dashboard for a global asset manager, and a data analysis project for the portfolio management team at a multi-billion-dollar investment manager. Your work product will directly impact our client organizations, as it will be used in the capital market decision-making process on a daily basis.
• Over time, you will be playing a critical role in Chatham’s innovation effort, enabling Chatham to expand its service offerings and business domain, all the while being exposed to the major areas of Chatham’s business. This is an opportunity where you can make contributions to the development of an entirely new family of services built around data-driven insight and storytelling.

Contributors to your success:

• MS in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, finance, computer science, and/or economics
• 2+ years of experience in a finance, analytics, data science, data engineering, or programming role
• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity using Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn); fluency in SQL
• Experience with one of the Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) is a plus
• Strong background in relational database and data warehouse with professional implementation experience (Azure, Snowflake, etc.)
• Professional experience in designing Data Schema in PowerBI
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical partners - you should expect significant interaction with various other teams (advisory teams, product teams, analytics, tech teams)
• Rock-solid quantitative skills – you must have a fundamental quantitative ability in order to learn and excel in our business
• Innovative problem-solving ability and intellectual curiosity
• Desire to learn new concepts and tools
• Desire to self-start, work independently, and proactively look for value add
• Experience with financial derivatives is a plus

About Chatham Financial:

Chatham Financial is the largest independent financial risk management advisory and technology firm. A leader in debt and derivative solutions, Chatham provides clients with access to in-depth knowledge, innovative tools, and an incomparable team of close to 700 employees to help mitigate risks associated with interest rate, foreign currency, and commodity exposures. Founded in 1991, Chatham serves more than 3,000 companies across a wide range of industries — handling over $750 billion in transaction volume annually and helping businesses maximize their value in the capital markets, every day. To learn more, visit www.chathamfinancial.com.

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