Data Team Lead (Sydney - relocation) - Tribus
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Job Description
This role is based in Sydney - relocation package
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 small team 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.
- 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.
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