Hiring: Sr. Data Engineer Company: NinjaTrader Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:55:56 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Airflow, Avro, BigQuery, CI/CD, Cloud Storage, Data Lake, Data Pipeline, Datadog, Derivatives, ELT, EMR, ETL, Event-Driven, Flink, GCP, GitOps, Grafana, Iceberg, Kafka, Kinesis, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Parquet, Prefect, Prometheus, Python, S3, SQL, Spark, Terraform, dbt About the job Experience: •5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development Required Skills: •At NinjaTrader, you'll play a key role in designing and operationalizing the modern data platform that powers our analytics, trading tools, and AI initiatives. This role is remote-friendly and reports to the Manager, Data & Analytics Engineering. •Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing •Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early •Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance •Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis •Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components •Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows •Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems Compensation: •$100,000 - $150,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 10% Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!