Alpha data

You write the Python code that brings large amounts of outside data into a trading firm and shapes it so its researchers can search it quickly. Alpha is the finance word for return that comes from skill rather than from the market moving, and the data this team serves is the raw material researchers use to look for it. The team pulls each dataset in through ingestion pipelines and reshapes it with transformation jobs. It designs the data models together with the researchers, so that the questions they ask of the data run fast.