Data Team Lead

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Tribus Full time $300,000 - $400,000 per year

Data Team Lead – Global Proprietary Trading Firm

A leading global trading and derivatives firm is hiring a Data Team Lead to manage and scale critical reference data systems that power trading across global markets.

You'll lead a team of seven while staying hands-on—designing, building, and optimising pipelines that ingest and process massive datasets with speed, accuracy, and reliability. This is a role where the technical decisions you make have direct, firm-wide impact on trading performance.

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing data engineering team.
  • Architect and optimise data pipelines handling vast volumes of market data.
  • Apply deep Python and SQL expertise to improve reliability, throughput, and latency.
  • Partner with quants, traders, and developers to ensure seamless data availability.
  • Implement best-practice database design and modelling principles.
  • Drive automation, monitoring, and performance tuning across systems.
  • Balance strategic leadership with hands-on problem solving.

What we're looking for

  • Proven leadership experience in data engineering or platform teams.
  • Advanced skills in Python, SQL, and database design.
  • Experience working with large-scale, high-volume datasets.
  • Strong collaboration skills, comfortable engaging directly with technical and trading stakeholders.
  • Financial data experience ideal, but backgrounds in big tech handling extreme scale also considered.

Highly competitive compensation + performance bonus ($300-400k)

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